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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: With public money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not have that option when I pay my tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Martin made a very good point when she asked if we have to wait for a tragedy to occur. It is not an exaggeration. If one looks at the history of building control, powers were first given to the Minister to develop building control regulations in the 1960s. The regulations were not drafted until the 1970s and it was then decided not to implement them. The Stardust fire led to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our guests are being heard. It is important for them, the people here with them and anybody else who is listening that lots of people are hearing what is being said. It is not just members of this committee and the Oireachtas. There has been a good and significant level of good media coverage from RTÉ, The Irish Timesand Irish Examiner. I reassure people that there are people hearing...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Policy Reviews (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the draft national policy for architecture and the built environment. [44974/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties in counties Cavan and Monaghan in tabular form; and the existing or planned initiatives he intends to implement to assist local authorities in the counties to make vacant homes habitable. [45630/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that okay? I am substituting for Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witness for the presentation. Mr. Creegan will know that I and my Dublin colleagues have been engaging very closely with the NTA on the first draft of the plan and in the consultation process. We engage in that process in good faith and are hoping to see significant change. For the part of the city I know best, there have been very substantial and some positive changes in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: A portion of the capital funding is going to that versus acquiring the bus corridors and the CPO costs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. I acknowledge the work and commitment of the Minister of State to this project. Because of this commitment, he has built up a considerable volume of trust with members of the Opposition and with the stakeholders. I have two concerns. The Housing Agency's report was published in January 2017. Extensive consultations took place during that. The expert...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Loan Scheme (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister will be aware that one of the difficulties in Dublin is that the loans being offered are, on average, €200,000. My local authority of Dublin City Council offers €180,000. This is far short of the market rate. 6 o’clock One of the things we are being told by people who receive offers that are simply too low in the context of purchasing properties is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cause of the recent boil water notice at the Leixlip water treatment plant was the same as that discovered by the Environmental Protection Agency in March 2019. [45234/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: To move on a little bit from what we were discussing earlier, I was not questioning the decision regarding whether to shut down the water supply or to introduce the boil water notices. I understand the logic behind that. I refer more specifically to what happens after the current upgrade works to deal with the turbidity issue are carried out. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome that direct engagement. The EPA's audits are very valuable and very useful and are produced in a way that those of us who are not technical experts in the field can fully understand. The Minister is absolutely right. The ongoing upgrading of the filtration system in the old part of the plant which supplies 20% of the water to the greater Dublin area is, as far as we understand,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation published in July 2019. [45235/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As we know, it was in 2017 that the Housing Agency, on foot of a request from the Department, published a very extensive report showing the failings in the Traveller accommodation budgetary process. To the Minister's credit, he put together an expert group which produced a very good report, which was published in July. We are now four months on from that so I am interested to hear the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. Two things became evident from today's hearings. The first is, obviously, very significant systems failures and management failures between the incident that took place in April and the EPA audit in March and the event in October. Not all of the eight recommendations the EPA made in March have been fully implemented. The EPA has made another nine...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. I wish to press him, however, on the issue of the ultraviolet filtration system because, if that is necessary, it will require additional capital investment over and above what has already been allocated for this plant. Therefore, while I am not asking him to commit to that expenditure, I am asking for reassurance that if it is required, he will look...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Supply Contamination (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the information he received regarding the failure of Irish Water and Fingal County Council to fully implement the recommendations of the March 2019 drinking water audit report relating to the Leixlip water treatment plant prior to the alum dosing incident that resulted in the issuing of a boil water notice for 615,539 persons...