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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to speak to amendment No. 22. Section 5 contains a real deceit. I am choosing my words very carefully. For several weeks, the Minister has been on the airwaves telling people that this legislation will introduce tenancies of unlimited duration. The Minister of State used the same phrase on Second Stage last week. A tenancy of "unlimited" or "indefinite" duration has a clear...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The rationale the Minister of State has given for the original provision, that is, that students might choose to pay more rent over a period of time to manage their financial affairs, is not the rationale that was given to us either by officials or the Minister when that legislation was passed. We were told the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science made...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support both these amendments and I will add one additional point. We still have some anomalies because rent pressure zones are calculated on the basis of local electoral areas, LEAs, and data provided to the Minister by the Residential Tenancies Board. In a certain number of locations, such as Cork city and county, half an LEA is subject to very substantial rent increases and the other...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: “In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 19B of Principal Act 4.The Principal Act is amended in section 19B(3) by the insertion of “where such a payment is part of a combined payment, including tuition and materials to a third level educational institution as prescribed by way of regulation by the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the amendment. It is important to note that since the previous Government introduced its strategy for the private rental sector in 2016 to the end of 2020, we have lost more than 20,000 properties from the private rental sector. We do not yet have the data for 2021. At the same time, rents during that period have increased by 30% to 40%. What we got under the previous...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, lines 28 and 29, to delete “the relevant percentage” and substitute “0 per cent”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, to delete lines 1 to 3.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to speak specifically to my amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 7 but I am also supporting the amendments of colleagues. The bottom line is that rents are too high and tenants simply cannot absorb any level of rent increase at this stage. We know, for example, that because new rental properties are not subject to the rent pressure zone caps, they are coming in at excessively high levels in some...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision centres that have invoiced his Department for the purchase of period products since March 2021; and if free period products are readily available at all direct provision centres. [60604/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Minister for Health when the Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021 will progress to committee stage. [60605/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2022 (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms and timelines that have been agreed for the budgetary allocation announced in Budget 2022 for the provision of period products; if public sector organisations that are ready to roll-out the provision of free period products will be able to draw down this funding. [60606/21]

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Paul Donnelly, on bringing forth this important motion. Like others, and as all Deputies who contribute to the debate this evening probably will do, I pay tribute to the men and women of the Dublin Fire Brigade, our firefighters, ambulance staff and paramedics. I do not think there is a Member of this House who, either directly from family experience or...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the automatic extension of notice periods with respect to residential tenancies where a tenant is certified as at risk of homelessness and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. As the House knows, homelessness among adults and children has increased...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action his Department can take in cases in which local authorities fail to protect the health of residents living adjacent to large construction sites in which such sites are clearly in breach of planning conditions leading to unacceptable levels of noise, vibration and dust. [60014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the construction defects working group; when he expects to receive the report of the group; and when he expects to put in place a redress scheme for homeowners with fire safety and other structural defects. [60292/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the new range of activities Greyhound Racing Ireland is planning to cover as part of its’ new serious injury scheme due to be introduced in early 2022. [60465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the new greyhound traceability system which is a basic operational requirement will not be funded from the mandatory 10% ringfenced for animal welfare. [60466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that according to Greyhound Racing Ireland the contribution to the greyhound welfare and to an organisation (details supplied) in 2020 was €1,191,547 which amounts to 8.56% of expenditure and not the mandatory 10% that should be ringfenced for welfare; if he will request that the shortfall is made up in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a full breakdown will be provided of all injuries and fatalities sustained by greyhounds at race events since 2019, in tabular form; the person or body that collects that data at race events (details supplied). [60468/21]