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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is what I was seeking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. I thank Ms Timmons for her answers. If we are to ensure that people with disabilities are getting their fair share of allocations, some of those questions are the key ways to monitor that. For example, no one knows the overall percentage of properties in the social housing construction pipeline that are designed for people with disabilities. Each individual local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the adaptation grant, in another area of work the Government is looking at the possibility of having a blended grant and loan finance model for retrofitting private properties. It would be a shame if it was to be introduced without that type of facility being made available to private homeowners for the purpose of adapting their own home. It would not be a significant additional cost,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services Provision (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister, Deputy Zappone, for being in the Chamber to take this Topical Issue matter. My constituency of Dublin Mid-West, very much like the neighbouring constituency of the Minister, Dublin South-West, has a growing population. Its population has increased by more than 5% between the censuses in 2011 and 2016. Moreover, very significant construction activity is finally...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services Provision (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I was any one of the parents who raised these matters on a regular basis with constituency Deputies, the first thing I would ask after the Minister's intervention would be what does it mean for the particular area to which this question pertains. My Topical Issue matter is very specifically focused on the Dublin Mid-West constituency. It strikes me that while the capital sums are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Loan Scheme (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Excellent.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Noise Pollution (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shocking.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow technical universities to access borrowing for the provision of purpose built student specific accommodation. [29467/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at both Lucan and Ronanstown Garda stations, in view of growing concerns in the Lucan area. [29299/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 840. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to secure the reclassification of the approved housing body sector as off balance sheet; the number of meetings held by his officials; the number of meetings held with officials from the Department of Finance on the issue; the number of meetings his officials have had with the approved housing body...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 855. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocation to each local authority for Traveller specific accommodation for 2019; and the spend in each local authority to date. [29896/19]

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...