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

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

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We are happy to support this group of amendments. It seems to me from listening to a number of Government backbenchers that they just do not understand the reason we need an active land management agency, despite the fact that for 40 years, report after report, including Government reports, have explained why it is needed. Unless there is an active land management agency whose sole function...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will stick to discussing the Bill and the amendments in question. For four decades, housing policy expert after housing policy expert has been calling for an active land management agency, a strong State agency with a significant budget and comprehensive CPO powers. The job of that agency would be to amass land holdings and, working in partnership with the appropriate State agency, assist...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I support this group of amendments. A grouping list has not been circulated. Not that it is essential but if there is one that could be made available to members, it would be of great help. One of the perplexing things about the Land Development Agency is why, under its Fine Gael proposition and now under the proposal in front of us from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party,...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: First Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: First Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) to provide for a prohibition on rent increases for all existing and new tenancies for three years. Rents are simply far too high. There are more than 300,000 registered rental tenancies throughout the State. Three-quarters of a million people live in the private...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 16 June 2021, the breakdown for the current costs associated with administering the Just Transition Fund and to account for source of the funding for the Just Transition Fund of 29 mentioned. [35544/21]

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his remarks. The Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group was formed in 2016. It has been campaigning vigorously and has secured cross-party and widespread community support during that time. For the five years of that campaign, Fine Gael has been in government and in charge of housing for most of that time. What really galls many people in the affected...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — on 9th April, 2019, An Board Pleanála approved Dublin City Council’s (DCC) Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme for Poolbeg West; — following years of campaigning by the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group and communities in Ringsend and Irishtown, Dublin City Councillors ensured the SDZ plan...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the reasons it is so important to get that extra 15% is because house prices in this part of the city have increased more dramatically than in many other places, as the Minister is aware. There are families who have lived in that part of the city for three or four generations and whose children simply cannot afford to rent or buy there, and who do not have any prospect of renting or...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his outline of what the Bill involves. By way of a general comment, rushed planning legislation, unfortunately, often leads to bad planning outcomes. Too often in previous years we have seen very complex and technical changes introduced at the last minute to already very complex planning and development legislation, the outcome of which has been to make our planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect. I would like more information from the Minister on what could be the maximum extension. This would be helpful. On the extension of planning permission, I do not think there is a Deputy in the House who wants disadvantage in any way building sites, particularly those involving residential construction, that have been forced to close because of public health guidelines....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I specifically ask about the collation of data relating to domestic and gender-based violence. As the Minister of State knows, it has been almost two decades since a landmark sexual abuse and violence in Ireland report. Following a very lengthy campaign by advocates and front-line service providers, agreement was reached between the Department of Justice and the Central Statistics Office by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government promised an examination of the issue of defective housing in the first 12 months. The programme states that the examination will have "regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing report, ‘Safe as Houses’." As the Minister knows, that report called for the introduction of a latent defects redress scheme for affected...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Both Dublin City Council and the local community need the Government to get more directly involved to resolve this dispute. There is approximately €80 million of public funds earmarked for infrastructure in the strategic development zone. Of that, €15 million is from the Minister's own Department, which is co-funding the bridge to complete the south docks. There is up to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dublin City Council's strategic development zone, SDZ, master plan for the Poolbeg lands was approved in 2019. The SDZ will provide a much-needed 3,500 new homes on the site, as well as economic opportunity and social amenities. Thanks to a very determined campaign by the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group, the SDZ plan includes a commitment to deliver 15% of these homes at affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to make the wearing of protective clothing mandatory for cyclists and road users of powered personal transporters. [34410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cyclists and road users of powered personal transporters will be liable for road tax. [34411/21]