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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State knows, building control compliance is an obsession of mine. Given the size and scale of the facilities, and that the primary objective is to ensure greater compliance with environmental and public health requirements, would it not make sense, particularly in the early stages of rolling out the new exempted development category, for local authorities in areas where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make a final point. What we know from our experience of building defects in other categories is that the negative impact of defects is not necessarily visually evident at the point when the facility starts to operate. For example, water ingress could be relevant in the context of a facility that has a lot of semiliquid slurry. These things sometimes transpire only at a later stage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear then, nobody who has gone and built a slurry storage tank, for example, will be able to avail of the exemption retrospectively. It is only for brand new facilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It is just good to get that on record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are making the Minister of State blush, a Chathaoirligh.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the progress made towards transposing the provisions of the revised Energy Efficiency Directive by the 11 October 2025 deadline. [54920/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of domestic electricity and gas customers in arrears (details supplied); the average value of the arrears, using the information provided to his Department by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [55261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider and respond to concerns regarding an aspect of design for a new school building (details supplied). [55440/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the revised estimate subhead A3, local government housing, by Social Housing Investment Programme, land acquisition fund, development levy waiver and any other category for the 2025 allocation and the out turn in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [54742/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the tenth budget I have had the opportunity to respond to as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing. In every single year, the Minister for housing presents a budget and tells us it will address and improve the housing situation across the State. In the 12 months that follow, house prices, rents and homelessness rise, and social and affordable housing targets that are too low to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the cost reductions to the developers be passed on to the LDA, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government had a clear commitment to progressively increase the renters' tax credit. Obviously, that promise was broken in yesterday's budget and as a consequence the vast majority if not all of the renters' tax credit will be swallowed up by rental increases based on the most recent data from Daft. Likewise, an increasing number of people who apply for cost rental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Average rents for new tenants increased by over €1,000 last year and for existing renters by almost €800. Despite the Government's renter's tax credit, the majority of renters will either be worse off or marginally better off. When we change the legislation, however, those rent increases are going to be even more dramatic for people who move tenancy or enter into a new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Prospectively or retrospectively? Apologies; I am not heckling.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So they will not apply to existing tenancies.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The potential saving for a cost-rental tenant paying an average rent of €1,500 per month would be €225. That is €2,700 a year. I hope that he would insist rather than expect that the LDA provides that. Equally, the VAT reductions on apartments could also be a helpful way for reducing the rent if the VAT reduction is passed on to the AHB or LDA through Project Tosaigh...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Simon Communities of Ireland went on to say yesterday, “The measures announced today will do nothing to reduce the numbers of people being forced to experience the trauma of homelessness.” What it is saying and what I want the Minister to respond to is, of the €235 million of additional funding for homeless services on the allocation to date of this year, how much...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, homelessness is at the highest level since modern records began. Over 16,000 people, including 5,000 children are officially categorised as homeless and in emergency accommodation funded by the Department. Astonishingly, neither the Minister for Finance nor the Minister for public expenditure and reform even referenced homelessness yesterday. The budget book simply...