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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Half of what is needed.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have not even passed the legislation.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is true.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is true.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: With not a single affordable home on the site.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was not a single affordable home.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rebuilding Ireland was launched in July 2016. Three and a half years later, are things really any better? Homelessness is up by 67% and child homelessness has increased by a shocking 81%. The latest homeless figures released today indicate yet another significant rise and although the Minister may claim there has been a decrease in rough sleeping, it is likely that this is the result of a...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Well said.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will.

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 26, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(4) Where an AHB provides ‘special needs accommodation’ for tenants with additional needs beyond an inability to provide for their housing from their own resources, “special needs accommodation” shall be defined as accommodation provided to persons who by reason of old...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 35, line 31, after “Minister” to insert the following: “, following consultation with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government,”.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data (28 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount to be paid by each religious institution into the residential institutional redress board scheme in tabular form; and the amount paid to date by each religious institution. [49529/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (28 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to transfer to an Irish prison under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act 1995; the reason the application has been in the Office of the Chief State Solicitor for at least 12 months; when it will conclude its consideration of the application; and if he will make a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sharing time with Deputy Ellis. I would like to join with the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and Deputy Darragh O'Brien in expressing my deepest sympathy to the family, friends and colleagues of Simon Brooke, who passed away yesterday, and to offer condolences to his partner, Anna Heussaff, and his son, Conall. Simon was a well-known figure in housing policy circles, having worked...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That brings me to the Bill. Let me very clear that, contrary to the claim of Deputy Cassells, I, and Sinn Féin, support tenure neutrality. We believe that a housing system should allow people to freely choose whether they want to own or rent a home and should allow them to make that choice not out of fear of rising rents, insecure tenure or affordability after pension age, but because...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy is unbelievable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach has learned from his Minister how to misread figures because that very same report he quotes tells us more than half of the children who are currently homeless are spending more than one year in emergency accommodation when we combine hotels and hubs. If we take figures from the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, it tells us more than 20% of the children in emergency...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the Taoiseach's fourth year in Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is 10,000 short of the Rebuilding Ireland targets of 30,000.