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Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin is not opposing these amendments. I will not repeat the broader debate we had on whether this is the right policy as we had that debate during Private Members' time this week. However, I will raise a number of concerns I would genuinely like the Minister to consider following the enactment of the amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act he has just outlined. In the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief, as there are only four minutes left before the guillotine falls. I support the amendments, but given that we will not have time to discuss the Minister's significant amendment to Part V of the Planning and Development Act, I ask that he send a briefing note to the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage providing more detail on it. I also ask that his...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for that. I want to tease it out. I am genuinely open to the proposition in front of us. I have spoken to representatives of a number of smaller, more rural, local authorities who have indicated that even with the serviced sites fund, the delivery of affordable homes within the price point I would like could be difficult. In his second response I would like to pin the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My amendment in the group speaks to section 6 and the reference to open market dwelling, and that term is only fully explained in section 8. This is a significant innovation in the Bill that, from memory, I believe was not raised at the pre-legislative scrutiny phase or in the general scheme of the Bill. It is not clear what the Minister intends to do and my fear and that of Deputy...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond first to the comments of Deputy Matthews, the chairman of our committee. These amendments would not stop private investment in any housing project. It would stop a particular type of developer-led development, exactly as the Minister said. It would stop PPPs and joint ventures. Almost of all of the AHB sector, for example, is financed either directly by private finance from...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to amendment No. 24 in this group on the subject of PPPs. Public private partnerships are quite a new model for developing social housing in a context here. The first bundle, as the Minister knows, was completed earlier this year, with 109 of the first 500 in my constituency. They were tenanted recently. The difficulty with the PPP model is in the detail, and I want to...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I strongly support the Green Party amendments. I tabled similar amendments to the Land Development Agency Bill to promote the idea of community housing trusts. Unfortunately, we do not have a legislative basis for such innovative forms of housing development. They work well in continental Europe, especially in countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. It would be a positive...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak in favour of both amendments in the group. When the Oireachtas housing committee undertook pre-legislative scrutiny of this legislation, one of the recommendations unanimously agreed by all members of the committee, both from the Government and the Opposition, was that the many regulations the Minister will have to produce, both for the affordable purchase and cost rental...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If this were comprehensive legislation, we would know, for example, what would be the eligibility criteria for accessing affordable purchase or cost rental schemes. If it were comprehensive legislation, we would know the cost or the way in which the cost of those homes would be provided. Nobody is asking the Minister to delay anything. In fact, this legislation has been three years in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the four Dublin local authorities have had the inspections of private rental properties disrupted by Covid-19 restrictions; if so, the details of the extent of this disruption; and if his Department has provided guidance or support with respect to inspection of private rental properties. [37023/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very bad way to make planning law. I am saying that as somebody who agreed, albeit reluctantly, to waive pre-legislative scrutiny because I understood the motivation of the Minister was to resolve a number of very important problems, which we wanted to help him resolve. My comments, therefore, are not being made in any opposition to this legislation, but planning law is complex....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the high interest rates being charged by pillar banks in debt related repayment judgements; and if he has taken action to ensure that these interests are fair and do not add additional financial burden on those in debt repayment agreements with their banks. [36571/21]

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all the Deputies who spoke in support of the Bill. It is five years since I introduced a Bill to constrain rents in the private rental sector in this House. At that time, the Minister of State's party supported the Bill to link rents to inflation. All of the arguments that I have heard tonight are Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael arguments, even when they are made by Green Party...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with a number of colleagues. The first legislation I introduced following my election to the Dáil was the Rent Certainty Bill 2016. At that stage, rents had been already rising sharply for two years. The purpose of that Bill was to link rent reviews to an index such as the consumer price index. As CPI was at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the requirements his Department has placed on local authorities (details supplied) with respect to the advancement of the listed developments. [36380/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [36011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 504. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons with a documented anaphylaxis to trometamol or to GBCAs should not receive a vaccine (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that persons who have been refused this vaccine due to anaphylaxis have been offered the same vaccine again; his views on whether that on refusal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the long-term illness scheme for mental illness medications is extended only to persons under 16 years of age; and the supports available to persons over 16 years of age to pay for related medication. [29935/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is considering changes to the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 to allow the use of digital signatures on documents in property transactions; and the status of this proposal. [35619/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My big fear is that, just like NAMA, in years to come-----