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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The housing and residential tenancies Bill is listed in the summer legislative programme. This week's Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, data prove that the rent pressure zones, RPZs, are not working. We now have nine quarters of data that show that the 4% cap in Dublin has not tempered rents in any way whatsoever. We had a 7.7% increase this quarter. In quarter 1 of 2018 it was 8.7% and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We had a session a couple of weeks back on retrofitting. The Tipperary Energy Agency said that to simplify and improve access to retrofitting funds, there is a blended model of grant aid and long-term low interest Government-backed loans. We are talking about the same set of problems. Although there are grants for private homeowners, they are difficult to access if a person does not have...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not minded to support the amendment. I appreciate that the original definition did not take into account pre-63 properties or the protected structures to which the amendment relates. However, the Minister of State has gone too far in trying to solve that problem. The definition is too broad. It would have been possible to provide a more specific definition or, for example, to waive...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will give the Minister of State a real world example. I live in a protected structure in Clondalkin which I rent from the Church of Ireland. It is one of four houses built in the 1870s. They are beautiful and unique stone buildings. The current rent has complied with the 4% rent pressure zone cap in the past two years and is less than half the current market rent in the area. My rent...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have given some consideration to the amendment. I will not support it. I echo Deputy Casey's view on it. This six-page amendment is half the length of the Bill that we are discussing in the first instance and is not pertinent to it. I will repeat what I said on Committee Stage and last night. We need Ministers to stop using this mechanism of tabling Report Stage amendments - at times...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a document.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Notwithstanding the drafting error, as I have said on Committee Stage, we are supportive of this amendment. If memory serves me correctly, this is one of the Opposition amendments that the Minister of State said he was going to examine and he was to consider coming forward with his own wording. I will be interested to hear what he has to say about that. I presume that Deputy Casey will...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are back in the House tomorrow to discuss the Bill.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The motion before us a technical one that seeks to give the Minister permission to introduce amendments to the Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018 that have nothing to do with that Bill but are related to the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 and the national spatial strategies. I do not propose to speak to the Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018 or...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is about the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill 2017, CIRI, which the Minister of State, Deputy English, has described as critical for the development of a culture of confidence and compliance in the construction industry. A story in The Irish Timesby Niamh Towey today reports on how the developer of an apartment block, Cathedral Court in Dublin 8, has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with an appropriate homecare package to allow the person to be discharged from hospital and return home. [27487/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing build and acquisition targets for 2020 and 2021. [27470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a report (details supplied) published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission which highlights the way in which the Workplace Relations Commission process cannot be the solution for dealing with discrimination against persons on housing benefits; and if further initiatives to deal with the problem will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. They know my position. I strongly support anything that takes the AHB sector off balance sheet as long as it does not in any way affect the not-for-profit and voluntary sector ethos of the sector. I know the witnesses' organisations share that view. I share and hear their frustration that, 18 months in, there does not seem to be much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The ICSH has had three meetings with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and one meeting with the Department of Finance in 18 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: So the ICSH has not even had a meeting with the Department of Finance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are different players on the pitch here. If credit unions created a lending vehicle which was ready to go tomorrow, would housing bodies be in a position to borrow from it, depending on the interest rates and commercial viability of the loan offering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are ready to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the witnesses share information as to which credit union body made the offer that has been received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (2 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two quick supplementary questions, but, first, it would be worthwhile comparing the number of meetings the delegates have had with relevant Departments with the number the inter-departmental Clearing House Group have had. That is a group that was established by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to examine ways by which private sector real estate trust investment...