Results 11,021-11,040 of 15,018 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Regulations (5 Mar 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the NZEB regulations. [3490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (5 Mar 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the European Court of Justice action against the State for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [3495/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (5 Mar 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent issues at a retirement home (details supplied); and his plans to ensure that the elderly and disabled residents in the complex are not evicted as a result of notices to quit issued. [3496/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has been nine months since Deputies from Dublin Mid-West first raised the issue of Jigsaw's youth mental health services in Clondalkin and their possible closure. Since then, we have had two meetings with the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, and three with senior clinical staff at Jigsaw, we have engaged with the wider community, and there was a successful community vigil, all of which...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will not be business as usual if people cannot access the service at the location closest to where they live. In many cases, the young people in question are very vulnerable and are at risk of self-harm and suicide. The idea that accessing a service in Tallaght, where there is not even a direct bus service, would be business as usual is simply not the case. We are pleading with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 771. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the criteria of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to make it available to persons that previously owned a home but had it repossessed, voluntarily surrendered it or have been through an insolvency process, but that otherwise meet all the criteria for the scheme. [53226/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to thank the officials from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Housing Agency for the substantial volume of material we got yesterday. I appreciate it takes a significant amount of work. This is not a criticism of the officials, whom I know are overburdened with work, but I want to express frustration that we get the information very late. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry to cut across the Minister. I had raised this with John O'Connor and he pointed me to what effectively represents the additional households over a year in the last two reports. The figure is about 14,000 households. It is an approximation from a table that was in the last two housing needs assessments but that table is not in this report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, it is a figure in the report. I will share it with the officials so we know what happened here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There has been nodding from the secretariat to indicate that we have not received correspondence on the report and it would be appreciated if we could get that soon. The Minister did not respond to the question about long-term homeless families who have been without a home for two, three and four years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make two other quick points. I used the word "sluggish" specifically about local authority new builds. I am not suggesting that turnkey or AHB new builds are in any way inferior, but there are concerns. Many of us expected that, at the beginning of social housing output, local authorities would be behind the curve because of capacity issues and all the rest of it. It was expected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have given the Minister our wording.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister wants to change it. He has to-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We just want the Minister’s amendments. Has a referendum Bill ever taken this long to produce? The Minister is breaking a record.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the Minister’s responsibly and the Attorney General’s. That is disingenuous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not have an Attorney General in my back pocket.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did any referendum Bill take two and half years?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a co-sponsor of the Bill and a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government I want to believe the Minister but I simply do not. The reason is that we have been given three separate deadlines by the Minister's Department for when that text will be available. The latest was in the communication the Minister just mentioned in which we were told we would have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome that we are beginning to move in the direction of genuine affordability, in rental and purchase. I will, however, make some observations. I believe it is a mistake to think about the pricing of these units as a reduction or a discount from market rent because they are not being delivered by market operators. They are being led by the local authorities. Clonburris, for example,...