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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a global target for cities and towns above the 2,000? Did I misunderstand that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a target for the cities yet or will that come out later?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across Ms Graham. I do not have a lot of time. Has it been decided whether it is a subsidy, a grant or an equity stake?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can it be recouped in the way that the affordable housing fund is, for example, through a clawback? Has that been decided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are Ms Graham's thoughts on the potential competition with other turnkey or forward purchases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry for cutting across Ms Graham. Is that specifically for the 2,500 vacant properties mentioned in the plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that the same as when Ms Graham mentioned 2,500 CPOs in response to the Senator's question or is that a different figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are those CPOs for vacant properties, through a grant, predominantly on the western seaboard?

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. As the Minister said, defects and shoddy building work continues to impact tens of thousands of private homeowners and social and private rental tenants across the State. Today's news about the additional cost to taxpayers arising from building practices in our public schools once again confirms not only the legacy of light-touch building...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I confirm that I am in Leinster House. First of all, I wish Mr. O'Rourke good luck in his new role. Notwithstanding Sinn Féin's very strong criticisms of both the legislative and policy underpinnings of the LDA, we genuinely wish him very well in the very challenging job that he has ahead. We look forward to working with him. I suspect his chief executive quietly breathed a sigh of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I just cut across Mr. O'Rourke? I agree with Mr. O'Rourke that CPOs should be a last resort. However, surely his previous experience shows that getting agreement is often easier when the threat of CPO is in his back pocket than when he does not have the threat there at all. My argument is not for more CPOs, but to give him that bit of a stick to make the carrot work more efficiently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I could see the strain on Mr. O'Rourke’s face when he went through the rigours of the public spending code. I share his pain about the dead hand of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on housing delivery. I would like to follow up on three of the themes we have been discussing with Mr. O'Rourke. As Mr. O'Rourke will know, turnkeys are not just purchases of completed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I indicated that I wished to come in briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The point made by Deputy Boyd Barrett it is one of the most fundamental issues in this debate. It frustrates me that the point he correctly makes continues to be misunderstood. I will go back over it with Mr. O'Rourke, for the benefit of those of us who have been dealing with it for a long time. We all know what cost-rental housing is. The rents are set at the full-cost recovery of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. O'Rourke is absolutely right. We will not get 60-year finance from the EIB or the Housing Finance Agency, HFA, but what we can do, as has been done with the Enniskerry Road project, is get EIB financing funnelled through the HFA for 40 years. The State can also provide soft loans upfront, which only fall due after the 40 years and can then be extended for another ten or 20 years again....

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I express my deepest condolences to the family, partner and friends of Ashling Murphy, and those in the wider community who have been devastated by her brutal murder. Listening to the public debate over the past number of days, one comment has stuck in my mind. It has been said that the issue here is not, in the first instance, the safety of women but the violence of men. Every single day,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Legislation (19 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for excluding natural gas from head 20 of the general scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63139/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (19 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the risk analysis that has been taken regarding the proposed new gas power plants and the liabilities of the State under the energy charter treaty investor provisions given a judgement (details supplied); his views on the fact that the European Union energy investors can set up an office in another country to avoid...