Results 8,681-8,700 of 15,265 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive transport on the school transport scheme. [3292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full year expenditure for rent supplement in 2021 will be available. [3519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider granting an extension to the number of hours of employment allowed for a person (details supplied) under their visa. [3586/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1947 of 27 July 2021, if he will provide an update in relation to the proposed inquiry into the licensing of sodium valproate; when the inquiry will begin; when engagement with families affected by the drug will commence; and the timeline for the delivery of the report. [3099/22]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Vallone, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Reid and Ms Murray O'Connor for their presentations. I have no questions regarding them because I broadly agree with the substance of their written presentations and what they have said to us today. Their contributions will certainly help us in our committee report. I have a number of specific questions for Ms Graham, especially on the Croí...

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...