Results 8,121-8,140 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rental Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the Minister’s response as he knows that I wrote both to himself and to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, at the end of last year and early this year on this issue. Like Deputy O’Callaghan, I firmly believe that legislation is going to be required to outlaw this abhorrent behaviour. I pay tribute to Ann Murphy of the Irish Examinerwhose sterling investigative journalism...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s response to a report by an organisation (details supplied). [12050/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I am sure the Minister is aware, the Irish Green Building Council, IGBC, launched an important report last November on foot of research it commissioned from University College Dublin on how to deliver the increased number of homes and other construction projects that will be built in the future in a way that allows us to meet our legally binding emissions reduction targets. The report not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Among the significant findings of the UCD research commissioned by the Irish Green Building Council is that, first, the urban environment or the built environment is responsible for more than 30% of our current emissions, equal to areas such as agriculture or energy and transport which get much more public attention. Second, the research shows that, even with the retrofitting programme the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree the Oireachtas committee would be a good place to advance this discussion. The Minister of State may wish to use his influence with the committee Chairman to assist in that regard. It would also be useful to hear at Oireachtas committee level what are the preparations of the Department for those legally binding targets that will have a profound impact on the work of the Department,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will know, this is a project that has strong cross-party support. We worked together in opposition to convince the then Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy English, to progress this project. I am hoping that we can continue to do the same in the future. There are two specific problems. The question I have relates to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I say this with all sincerity, but there is some scepticism as to whether the four-stage process will actually become a three-stage process. We will have to wait and see. The Department's report is very clear. It does not confirm the establishment of a single decision-maker. It states that it would be preferable, but there will be greater co-ordination. I invite the Minister to meet the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: By way of being helpful to the Deputy, I can inform him that the LDA has confirmed to the Oireachtas housing committee that none of its affordable purchase units will come on stream until 2024–2025, these being the first units at Shanganagh. I understand the Government envisages a pipeline for affordable purchase this year of just 400 units. My specific question for the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will they be for purchase?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarification.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the ongoing delays in the development of social and affordable homes at a location (details supplied). [12046/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, his predecessor announced the St. Michael's social and affordable public housing scheme in 2018. We understand from Dublin City Council that it is to go to planning at the latter end of this year and that construction may not commence until 2025, which means that the project, given its size, might not be tenanted until 2027 or 2028. That means it will be ten years...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is no comfort to the people in Portmarnock in the Minister's constituency or in Adamstown in mine, who today will not be able to avail of any of these homes because they have been purchased by an institutional investor. In the same article in theIrish Independent, the fund said that "it is irrelevant what we pay for them." It does not matter that the Government has increased stamp duty...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The facts flatly contradict what the Minister is proposing because we know from the BNP Paribas report that a quarter of all purchases last year were by non-households. The Minister is right that some of those were approved housing bodies and local authorities but the vast bulk of them were institutional investors. They are now not just buying up new homes through forward purchase...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will that be this year or next year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the purchase of 300 new homes, including houses and duplexes by a company (details supplied). [12317/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure the Minister read in the newspapers two weeks ago that Orange Capital Partners have announced a forward purchase agreement of currently developed stock in three locations. These are in Cherrywood, in my constituency at Adamstown and in the Minister's constituency at Portmarnock. Many of these developments include not only apartments but also duplexes and family homes. Does the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that the cost rental equity loan will deliver affordable cost rental homes in Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12316/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister confirm that none of the successful applicants for the second round of the cost rental equity loan, CREL, scheme involved projects in Dublin city centre? Will he outline what changes he is currently considering to ensure that this much needed scheme is able to deliver homes in Dublin city centre and in the other areas in need of cost rental accommodation?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have no objection to the use of turnkeys in the short term while a pipeline of development of affordable cost rental homes by AHBs and councils comes on stream. The difficulty, though, and as the Minister is aware, is that the price of purchasing turnkey properties in Dublin city centre means it is not possible to deliver the affordable element of the cost-rental proposition. Therefore, I...