Results 841-860 of 15,170 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. As the Minister of State knows, this is an issue that we have raised regularly in the committee. "Frustrating" is probably an understatement. We were led to believe at an earlier stage that the legislation was nearly ready to go at the end of last year. Now, we are hearing that it has not even been completed. Even if it is published before...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is nothing new.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The numbers continue to rise.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the wider redress scheme, we are very keen to see the general scheme. We will engage on it constructively, as we have done previously. On the basis of the press release the Minister issued, he has made a huge mistake. A grant scheme to owners' management companies to fund very complex remediation works in multi-unit developments is a mistake. If I am reading the press...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it a grant scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But is it a grant scheme related to the OMCs?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps planned to reduce the number of people in homeless emergency accommodation. [37147/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, the figures published at the end of August for July show yet again an increase in the numbers of adults and children, including single people and pensioners, in emergency accommodation. Month after month, we see these increases. What the Minister is doing is not only not fixing the problem but also making it worse. What new initiatives does he intend to introduce in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yet, month after month, the number of adults and children, including pensioners, families and single people, in emergency accommodation has increased under the Minister's watch. In May 2021, the low point of homelessness as a result of the emergency measures introduced during the Covid pandemic by the Minister's predecessor, we had 5,843 adults and 2,184 children officially recognised as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I always get very concerned when I hear the Minister and others say homelessness is a very complex problem, because sometimes it can be interpreted as code for saying it is the fault of the people experiencing homelessness rather than a failure of the Government to meet their housing needs.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The tenants in situ circular the Department issued is restricting the numbers, capping the ability of local authorities to acquire more properties, particularly in large urban areas, and making it more difficult for approved housing bodies to purchase properties that are vacant to meet the needs of one- and four-bed households, whose members spend longer in emergency accommodation. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is in the circular.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the interim fire safety funding for multi-unit developments. [37146/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is almost two years since the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, made a commitment to introduce an interim fire safety remediation scheme for people impacted by Celtic tiger-era defects. That scheme opened almost a year ago. As the Minister knows, it has beset by significant delays, many of which, in my view, are of the Minister’s making. Can the Minister give an update on where...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like the Minister, I meet many of the affected homeowners and tenants in these properties. They have been enormously frustrated by the significant delays which would have been entirely avoidable had the Minister and his officials taken on board the detailed advice from Dublin Fire Brigade and others last year and early this year, rather than leaving it to the last minute in June, July and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg West SDZ. [37055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to give an update on commencement figures for the latest date possible. [37051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the delivery of cost rental homes in Oscar Traynor Road and O'Devaney Gardens. [37054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the interim fire safety defects scheme for multi-unit developments. [37053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any discussions with his Department and his counterpart in Colombia with regard to the operations of a company (details supplied); for an update on engagement between the embassy in Bogota, the company and local communities, and the way that Ireland and Colombia work together to ensure the indigenous Misak people...