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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very serious part of the Bill and, therefore, I am listening very carefully to what the Minister of State and Deputy McAuliffe have said. My concern is, and I say this very respectfully, what the Minister of State and Deputy McAuliffe are saying is not the same and let me outline why this is the case. I understand the Government's amendment very clearly, and the Minister of State...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I make a point of order, to be helpful?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are keen to get through this and it will go to another session. In order to ensure that we finish it in the next session, it might be helpful if those of us with amendments consult with the chair beforehand to work out a timetable so that it does not go beyond one more session. We have spent a lot of time on the Bill but I would be willing, as proposer of a bunch of the amendments we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across Mr. Joyce but one of the options is to use post office box registration, which would not require a fixed abode in the traditional settled sense of the term. Does post office box registration or some similar system provide a practical solution? My question, I suppose, is if the witness has a preferred option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for being late. I had another meeting with some colleagues which has just finished. I thank the witnesses for the presentations and written submissions. My questions are to all of the witnesses. We will probably come back to these with other people. They should feel free to give their answers and come back at a later stage. Two key elements of the legislation are how we...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to take five minutes to ensure that others get to speak. I thank People Before Profit, Solidarity and Rise for re-tabling this legislation. Sinn Féin was happy to support it in the previous Dáil and we will be enthusiastically supporting it this evening. We tabled a similar Bill in the previous Dáil and have introduced one on First Stage this year as part of our...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, for his opening remarks. The failure of the State, both local and central, for decades, if not for generations, to adequately meet the needs of our Traveller community is a scandal. It is probably the worst and most scandalous element of our failing housing system. In every county and constituency there are Traveller-specific sites which can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Invest and build in new homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is what the ESRI recommends. Invest and build the homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not populist nonsense. Is the ESRI report populist nonsense?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In ten years not a single affordable home has been built by the Government. Shame on the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In a report published this morning, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has called on the Government to double public investment in public housing. It has called for investment in the region of €4 billion annually. It states this would deliver 18,000 public homes to meet not just social but affordable housing need for working families. Of course, Sinn Féin has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have to say to the Tánaiste that this is no laughing matter. Fine Gael has been in government for ten years and not a single affordable home to rent or buy has been delivered by any Government scheme. Why is that? It is because its policy is all about big investors and big developers. It is about sweetheart deals for cuckoos and vultures and sweetheart land deals for big developers...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 58: In page 11, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(4) Any such directive shall have regard to any City or County Development Plan, Local Area Plan, or any other statutory plan made by a local authority.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We would like to return to the amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 61 is a straightforward amendment. It has been drafted by the Association of Irish Local Government. It is one of a group of amendments it sent to all Deputies on the committee urging them to support them. It is very straightforward. It is an attempt to have a greater level of transparency and accountability. The Minister of State will see from the amendment that it requires...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to respond to the Minister of State and to speak to amendment No. 70 because it is in this group and then we can proceed. I am genuinely surprised by the Minister of State's response because, on the one hand, he seems to be saying that there is a provision elsewhere in the Bill for annual reports, but the provision that there would be an initial annual report and then a report every...