Results 9,081-9,100 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 197. 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 serviced sites fund and the affordable housing funding scheme. [49819/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the serviced sites fund and the affordable housing funding scheme. [49820/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the completion and publication of the updated guidelines for rural planning that were due to be published in Q1 of 2021. [49821/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the 2021 housing needs assessment report will be published by the Housing Agency. [49822/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been unable to begin their long-awaited education in a specialised setting despite the school being open and functioning for other students; if her attention has been drawn to the negative effects this uncertainty has on the person and their family; and if she can provide a starting date in order that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on the Minister of State’s last two comments, I am not so sure about the commitment. I will explain why in a moment. Equally, I do not see any energy evident in tackling the issues we are dealing with. Those of us who have large Traveller-specific sites in our constituencies, as many of us here do, know that the conditions in which adults and children continue to live are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just for the record-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to revert to us at a later stage with answers to my specific questions. I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to start in the same way that I started with the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and that is by expressing my extreme frustration. I think the Minister of State misunderstood me because my frustration predates his taking up of his role. We have been discussing these things since 2017, since the Housing Agency report which highlighted the enormous failures both of central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am addressing the witness directly and I can do that, with the greatest of respect to the Chair. Eugene, I am also very concerned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Eugene is not a member of the committee. He is an external member of the CCMA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sure the good Senator would not mind me calling him Eugene. We are on very good terms. I am talking to the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is Eugene Cummins from the CCMA. I think Mr. Cummins threw out a list of issues there as part of the reason Traveller accommodation can be very difficult. I have 11 very large Traveller-specific sites in my constituency and I deal with these issues every day. The one issue he did not mention, which is part of the problem, is prejudice. We have to get real about this. We have talked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was also directed to Mr. Joyce.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make clear to Mr. Cummins that it is not and never has been my position that local authorities or local authority management are solely to blame for the scandal of Traveller accommodation. In fact, political parties, particularly the larger ones, my own included, have contributed to this problem, as have wider society and central government. We all have to accept a share of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up on the Minister of State’s last two comments, I am not so sure about the commitment. I will explain why in a moment. Equally, I do not see any energy evident in tackling the issues we are dealing with. Those of us who have large Traveller-specific sites in our constituencies, as many of us here do, know that the conditions in which adults and children continue to live are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just for the record-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to revert to us at a later stage with answers to my specific questions. I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to start in the same way that I started with the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, and that is by expressing my extreme frustration. I think the Minister of State misunderstood me because my frustration predates his taking up of his role. We have been discussing these things since 2017, since the Housing Agency report which highlighted the enormous failures both of central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Expert Group Review of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (12 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am addressing the witness directly and I can do that, with the greatest of respect to the Chair. Eugene, I am also very concerned-----