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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Was that value from the sale of the land and the use of it?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is an incredibly frustrating response because it sidesteps the core issue about which we are asking. If there are governance concerns, they need to be resolved. We are not questioning that. However, up until the end of the last school year, 120 children received services - such as homework assistance, recreational development activities, and breakfast club - through the Get Ahead Club...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the parents who are raising the issue.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Get Ahead Club is a community-based education charity in north Clondalkin that attempts to achieve educational equality, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It has provided a variety of very valuable services such as breakfast clubs, homework clubs and other developmental and recreational supports and activities since 1994 for about 120 children per year. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason 1 November 2019 was chosen as the date of eligibility for the new parental leave scheme as detailed in the Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019; if an earlier or retrospective date was considered during drafting to allow all parents with a child in its first year to avail of the scheme; and when it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of the drugs squad are no longer operating out of the Garda station in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; when the last remaining members of the drugs squad were removed from that station; the number of drugs squad personnel and the rank of each stationed in the station in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2020 (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the budget 2020 allocation to each programme or scheme within his Department. [42082/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ongoing revaluation of rateable properties taking place across many local authorities is planned to be revenue neutral for each local authority; if so, if a mechanism will be applied to ensure such councils return to a revenue neutral status in view of the fact that many successful appeals to the Valuation Tribunal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the opening statement is taken as read, have we resolved the matter of whether it will appear in the Official Report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask because recently we took some statements as taken as read and they did not appear in the Official Report. We generally prefer to take them as read, but we do not want to lose out on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the clerk to the committee find out what happened to it? Will the clerk to the committee find out what happened to that? We do not want to lose the value of having Mr. Dunne's words of wisdom on the record-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I congratulate Mr. Dunne on his proposed appointment; that is probably what we can say at this stage. Based on his presentation and having worked with him in the past, he is eminently qualified and will do a good job in the role. I wish him good luck with that. I would like to make a couple of comments so that he knows where some of us on the committee are coming from. We pay close...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three quick supplementary points. I would add a note of caution to Mr. Dunne's optimistic view of the real estate investment trusts, REITs, on two grounds. First, there is a growing body of evidence here and internationally that where a real estate investment trust, REIT, purchases tenanted properties, there can be an even greater insecurity because it wants to get those tenants out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is this a culture or a consequence of a legislative framework?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their submissions, which are helpful. I am a strong supporter of active land management and would like to see a strong, well-resourced public agency whose function is, in the first instance, to manage public lands strategically. However, I am in an increasingly uncomfortable dilemma, in that the more I read the heads of the Bill and listen to various views, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Connor mean that they should be written into the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Connor believe it would be better to include it in the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is on the record now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As this is important legislation, can I take the time of the members who are not present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the plan.