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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2116. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine on their return under the exemption travelling to the State for unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive medical reasons and these reasons are certified by a registered medical practitioner or person with equivalent qualifications outside the State in circumstances in which the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a link to or advise of the location in which to access the regulations in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine. [19928/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman and the Ministers for their presentations. My questions are very specific for the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, so perhaps we might just rattle through them in order. My understanding is the negotiations between Government and the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland for the banks’ participation in the shared equity loan scheme have concluded. Will the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies to the Minister but I have very little time, so if the Minister cannot answer the question, that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister cannot tell us the rate, that is okay. I will move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister may be surprised that I already know what the rates are and my concern is on the basis of what I am hearing. Somebody, for example, who takes out a shared equity loan to the maximum extent of €100,000 could actually end up owing an additional €50,000 minimum on top of that, and that is not taking into account the increased value of the property. Will the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand but the Minister can surely share with the committee before it goes to the Central Bank what the proposition is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are currently dealing with pre-legislative scrutiny, and if we do not know these matters, it is very hard to know whether working people will be saddled with very high levels of debt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not answering the questions, as usual. He is avoiding answering the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given the Minister has not answered any of those questions, my last question is this. His predecessors would come into this committee four times a year for quarterly updates on the implementation of the programme for government. The Minister has been in office for nine months and the committee has written to him several times. This is the first time he has come in for this purpose, and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a "No" to my question, I take it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be more helpful if the questions were answered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of quick questions so that we have time for Deputy O'Donoghue too. Will the Minister tell us from which programme the €214 million has been carried over? I assume the bulk of it is in social housing for local authorities but maybe the Minister will confirm that. Covid obviously played a significant role in the drop in construction output last year. Social housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am in Leinster House. I thank the Department for the briefing material and for the very detailed private briefing it gave us last week. Like Senator Fitzpatrick, I acknowledge that this is a hugely significant piece of work, but also a hugely significant statutory framework for future planning in the marine area. One of the concerns I want to raise at the outset is that this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will quickly ask a follow-on question. Does Mr. McCabe accept that the absence of MPAs being designated or the absence of sensitivity mapping telling us where they might be designated will make more difficult the job of planning officials who are making complex planning decisions? Would it not be better to have as much of the MPA designation or mapping done as early in the process as possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the team from the Department for the detailed answers. It is helpful for us to navigate through this. I will pick up on an answer that Mr. Woolley gave to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan about changes. One of the submissions to the consultation was from the Environmental Protection Agency. It had some quite strong concerns about the weakness of the existing environmental baseline. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might make a couple of comments before returning to questions. To be clear, my proposition at the start was for something similar to pre-legislative scrutiny. While it is the case that pre-legislative scrutiny is carried out on Bills, section 73 of the Planning and Development Act, the relevant section for dealing with this plan, provides that Oireachtas committees can compile reports and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Marine Planning Framework: Discussion (6 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 73(2) of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018.