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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Inflation is 4%. How is that a rent freeze? The dishonesty is incredible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be nice if the Government was honest with the people for a change.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, the plight of private renters dominated Leaders' Questions, and rightly so. The budget did not contain a single measure to ease the burden of sky-high rents. The only mention of the private rental sector was the extension of a tax relief to landlords. In response, the Taoiseach deliberately conflated the social rental sector with private renters. He talked about the housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not only has the Tánaiste's response confirmed that he lacks empathy for the struggle of renters, it also shows that he does not even understand the housing crisis. The Central Statistics Office released two important pieces of information today. House prices have increased by a staggering 10.9% across the State in the past year. That is why people cannot own their home and why, under...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We need 4,000 genuinely affordable homes to buy every year. What has the Tánaiste done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Dr. Ryan for his presentation and himself and his team for the answers and all the work they do behind the scenes. His regular appearances at this committee are really important because it gives both us as Oireachtas Members and the wider public an opportunity to see the really important work the EPA is doing on working to improve water and wastewater quality. I commend him and all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I chair from my seat to save me moving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two supplementary questions and then I will return to the questions we did not get time to deal with initially. Returning to Dr. Ryan's comments with respect to comparisons between Leixlip and the recent incidents, he stated that similar issues arose but were not escalated. The non-escalation is what potentially made the more recent ones more significant. Part of my original...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question because that is very interesting. My memory from Leixlip is that four separate alarms were missed. It was only when there was a changeover in staff that the staff member who came in recognised the alarms and took action. Am I right in interpreting that Dr. Minihan is saying that in the cases of Gorey and Ballymore Eustace, alarms were going off for a longer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean there is a ten-day period when those excess torpidity levels are in the system and no action is being taken to deal with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Dr. Minihan run through the same timeline with respect to Gorey, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Devlin had a good question about bathing water. Dr. Ryan said that somebody was going to come back to that topic. Perhaps in my last section somebody could reply to that. There were two questions I asked previously that the witnesses did not have time to answer. Could Mr. Byrne come back on when he thinks the 13 agglomerations will be in compliance? Could he also comment on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have to say, "Dear, oh dear, oh dear, what has got into the Minister for housing?" Not only was his short intervention ill-tempered but he did not even have the courtesy to remain and listen to Opposition spokespeople. Not only is he unwilling to debate us on the airwaves, it appears he is not even willing to sit and listen to what we have to say in the Chamber. People can make up their...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 September 2021 and responses to recommendations 1 and 2 in the table, the dates on which the actions and decisions taken on the way the Government has as per recommendation 2, prioritized the introduction of separate and complementary legislation to complete the designation,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 September 2021, the dates on which the actions and decisions taken on the way the Government has as per recommendation 2, prioritised the introduction of separate and complementary legislation to complete the designation, regulation and management of marine protected areas and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable rental homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the cost rental equity loan. [49818/21]