Results 81-100 of 15,170 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: It looked for funding a year and a half ago. It is still waiting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is no joking matter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Uisce Éireann wants the answer to the funding request it made a year and a half ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: We have higher rents and higher homelessness.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are 4,000 children homeless. That is political and it is happening on your watch.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: If he answered the questions, I would.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: You do not have the political will to do it. That is the problem.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (29 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: 294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the solutions, interim or otherwise are being considered in order to reduce waiting times for driving tests, particularly in areas of very high demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28892/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (28 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for wildlife crimes by county for 2024, in tabular form. [27978/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Drs. Kelly and O'Toole and their teams. It is great to have them here. I thank them for their presentations. I commend Dr. Kelly on his diplomatic use of language, which concerned frontloading the benefit from development levy and water connection waivers as opposed to people submitting commencement notices for things that were not actually commencing. I congratulate him on not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: When Dr. Kelly talks about the State bank, does he mean Home Building Finance Ireland or another vehicle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: At the risk of putting words into Dr. Kelly's mouth, he is saying that, rather than increasing the level of debt related to development finance from a pillar bank, a better solution concerns the equity rather than increasing the bank lending beyond what is typically 60%. Would he be nervous about raising the bank lending proportion to a typical proportion of 80%? I am aware that HBFI does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, since I am pressed for time and wish to proceed to the ESRI, Dr. Cassidy should answer very briefly on whether there should be mortgages of 100%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. I have two questions for Dr. O'Toole. He should respond very briefly because we have only two minutes. To go back to the issue of rent pressure zones, let us be very blunt. The three options are to raise the cap for the existing zones, allow a reset to new market rents between tenancies and fully exempt new stock over an extended period. Is it fair to say a trade-off is that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: The question is specific because there are some suggestions from the Government that some of the changes could be made without rents for existing renters going up more than is currently the case. I do not see how that is possible. I am not asking Dr. O'Toole whether making the changes is good or bad but to state, based on an assessment of the facts, whether rents for existing renters would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Likewise, I presume that because tenancies in the private rental sector are typically of short to medium duration, allowing a resetting between tenancies presents two challenges, one being that it might perversely incentivise poor practice involving landlords moving tenants out, as stated in Dr. O'Toole's own report. It would also surely have a wash-through effect among new renters generally...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: If there is no cap in respect of the turnover, it pushes the rents even higher, all things being equal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will be quick. I have one quick comment and then a quick question. To throw a different perspective into the debate about apartments, the assumption is that apartments have to be private rental sector. The difficulty of course is that a third of the people who live in the private rental sector should be in social housing. That is what they want, and we are paying a huge amount of money...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do my best, Chair.