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Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 14: In page 20, to delete lines 18 to 23 and substitute the following: "(3) The chairperson of the Board shall be appointed through the Public Appointments Service and shall have knowledge and experience of construction, building control, building standards, planning and related legislation; and other areas that the Minister may specify by way of regulations.". ...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, line 2, after “person” to insert “through the Public Appointments Service”. This is one of a number of amendments dealing with matters in respect of which the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, indicated on Committee Stage that he may table amendments of his own - not on Report Stage, but in the Seanad. It relates to a...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: But not to this amendment specifically which, from memory, has to do with the chairperson.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not push this to a full vote, but I wish to make a point. The PAS exists for a reason. My understanding is that the Government is meant to be operating a protocol whereby the service is always used, but we know that it has not been used in a number of high-profile cases recently. If someone was being appointed as the chair of the board of this important body, I would have thought...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 17, line 18, after “may” to insert “, following consultation with the Minister and the Oireachtas,”. I will withdraw this amendment now but we may return to it in the Seanad.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 18, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(10) The registration body shall seek the views of the relevant Oireachtas Committee on its annual report in person or in writing as requested by that Committee.”. I will withdraw this amendment now but we may return to it in the Seanad.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 18, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(f) establishment of a statutory skills register;”. Similar to when we discussed amendments Nos. 9 and 11 at some length on Committee Stage, while the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, was not in a position to accept them, he indicated that he would provide members of the committee...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are, but I will get two minutes to respond.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: One two-minute slot will be plenty on this one.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Part of the difficulty is that regulations have not improved that much since the incidents many of us talked about. In fact, in many instances the problem was not the regulations but their lack of enforcement. What has changed is in respect of building processes? There is a new system of certification, which is an improvement on the system...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate, as far too often in his recent ministerial career, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, has been thrown in the deep end to handle legislation that he might not have been dealing with previously. These are important amendments. If the Minister of State has a note, reading it into the record would be good. These are consequent to amendments that both I and Deputy Cian...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the great weaknesses of the earlier draft of the Bill was there was no mention of the Building Control Acts at all. It was genuinely surprising that in such important legislation, the origins of which arose from the non-existence of building control legislation in the 1970s and early 1980s and breaches of subsequent building control legislation, that there was no mention of those...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, to delete lines 12 to 26 and substitute the following: "(4) The Minister shall appoint the National Building Control Office as the registration body under subsection (2).". This is probably one of the more important amendments that a number of us are tabling today. I know the Minister of State will not accept it but I will take the opportunity to...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I congratulate and commend Deputy Cian O’Callaghan on bringing this very important legislation before the House. Our party will enthusiastically support it. What is particularly important about the Bill is not just that it makes the seeking of sex for rent arrangements a criminal offence but also that it seeks to impose criminal sanctions on those who would allow the advertising of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 safety protocols that are still in place to protect people with disabilities; if he plans to introduce measures specifically to ensure the safety of people with disabilities; and if his Department will consider contributing to the additional expenses incurred by people with disabilities for protective measures throughout the pandemic. [15429/22]

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister's response is an incredibly disappointing and disingenuous one. The one point he made, with which I agree, is that he at least admitted the Government is not doing enough. We do not need the Minister to tell us that, because ordinary working families across the State know that. Nobody on these benches is telling the Government to do everything; we just want it to do more. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of the Revised Estimates for 2022. [14218/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of the revised estimates for 2021. [14219/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown for the budget allocations for the subheads B4 and B11 of the Supplementary Estimate for 2022. [14220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a comprehensive statement on the European Commission enforcement case (2012) 4028 regarding Ireland's alleged failure to transpose and apply the access to justice provisions of Directives 2010/75/EU and 2011/92/EU including a summary of the grounds of the complaint and the Government's response to...