Results 921-940 of 14,975 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----the Minister stated in a letter to the Ceann Comhairle that it did not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For someone who writes a lot of letters to people, the Minister has been very slow in responding to the Ceann Comhairle.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I only reply to serious letters.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When can the Ceann Comhairle expect the response?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I look forward to reading it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. The facts are that his plan is not working and that he carefully avoided all the evidence which shows that it is not. House prices have never been higher in the history of the State, making it increasingly difficult for people to buy their own homes. Interest rate cuts that we expect to come quite soon are likely to fuel further house price...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----unable to access social housing or market housing. These were households on incomes between €50,000 and €70,000. However, in terms of the affordable housing fund, the cost-rental equity loan and the LDA, increasingly, those people are being priced out of the Department's schemes. Is the Minister concerned at the rising cost of affordable rents and affordable purchase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to address the question please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister concerned about the cost of the homes under the Government's scheme? Has he any proposals to bring those costs down? It is a reasonable question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The prices I outlined include an equity charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister concerned at the costs under his schemes? Has he any new proposals to bring those costs down so people on between €50,000 and €70,000 can get onto them? Those people are being blocked at present because the costs are too high.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My questions are about specific schemes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking about these schemes. I am asking the Minister to address a very specific question. He has not addressed it yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is avoiding the question, with the greatest of respect. I do not want to interrupt him-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is avoiding the question. He is also putting misleading figures to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Please answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not addressing the question, with the greatest of respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the last minute, can I have a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Here is the problem. I asked two very reasonable questions. One was whether the Minister is concerned by the rising cost of homes under the affordable housing scheme and cost rental because the agencies delivering those homes are concerned. I also asked him whether he has any plans to try to bring down those costs because a growing number of households for which these schemes are meant to...