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Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely not the case.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, line 14, after "is" to insert "deliberately and intentionally".

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support Social Democrats' amendment, but I also wish to speak to amendments Nos. 9, 11 to 13, inclusive, 37 and 38, all of which are mine. This cluster of amendments does something very similar to the amendment moved by Deputy O'Callaghan, albeit in a slightly more elaborate way. While the first amendment is probably the simplest amendment that I have tabled to this Bill, what it seeks to...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to support amendment No. 4, which is a much clearer and stronger amendment than mine. I fully concur with Opposition colleagues. Based on his comments so far, one would assume the Minister will not accept amendment No. 4. I ask him to look at the wording of this section of the Bill, which refers to a criminal offence where somebody provides information that is false or...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to give way to Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Eoin is absolutely fine.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will press the amendment.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, line 10, to delete “significant”.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will press the amendment.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to respond briefly to the Minister. I had not intended to respond but since the Minister repeated some of the factually inaccurate information he provided on Second Stage, I thought I should do so. I know the Minister does not pay much attention to the powers and functions of the Northern Assembly but if he did, he would know that the assembly does not have the legal authority...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, lines 6 to 8, to delete all words from and including “serves” in line 6 down to and including line 8 and substitute “in the opinion of the Board—”. Section 4 of the Bill is the section that seeks to substantially narrow the scope of protections for tenants from the existing emergency provisions to those who have had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 21 July 2020, if the decision will be reversed not to grant an exemption for three pupils to allow them to repeat their final year of education in a special needs school (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [19295/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further details will be provided on the capital funding, location and timelines for the development of new school buildings for schools (details supplied). [19296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the multi-year programme to rehabilitate 33,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland as part of the July stimulus package is in addition to the October 2019 announcement to rehabilitate 35,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland by 2025 or if there has been a 2,000 ha reduction in the plans for peatland rehabilitation....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1332. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide face coverings to vulnerable immunocompromised persons or persons with underlying health conditions. [20583/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the practice of reviewing pandemic unemployment payments for the self-employed exclusively against their 2018 tax returns will be reviewed to allow for more up to date evidence of earnings for 2019 and 2020 to be taken into account. [19011/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the practice of reviewing pandemic unemployment payments for the self-employed exclusively against their 2018 tax returns will be reviewed to allow for more up to date evidence of earnings for 2019 and 2020 to be taken into account. [19011/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for persons on the Covid-19 rent supplement payment post 30 August 2020; and if an assurance will be given that no claimant will have their payment withdrawn in cases in which the consequence of the withdrawal would be to force them into rent arrears. [19012/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list of the 2,000 void social housing units being targeted in the July stimulus package by local authorities will be provided; if the €30 million allocation is in addition to the capital allocation for social housing agreed in budget 2020; and if not, if it is a reprofiling of existing capital funding from new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (29 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the shovel-ready projects being funded under the announced €30 million additional funding for Irish Water as part of the July stimulus package. [19380/20]