Results 11,601-11,620 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of delivering a social housing unit through the buy and renew scheme in 2018. [21627/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first quarter of 2019 via the buy and renew scheme. [21922/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections in 2018 and 2019; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [21628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down for housing adaptation grants in each local authority in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [21629/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to local authorities for the purposes of energy efficiency retrofitting of social housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [21846/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of planning exemptions for solar panels; and when he expects the review to be published. [21847/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans drawn down in each local authority area at the end of the first quarter of 2019, in tabular form. [21920/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first quarter of 2019 via the repair and lease scheme. [21921/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency Data (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in the first quarter of 2019; and the average cost of each unit. [21923/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2019; and the drawdown for the first quarter of 2019 for each local authority in tabular form. [21924/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: On page 23 of the programme for Government, the Government promised to initiate an affordable cost rental housing scheme last July. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, announced plans for a cost-rental project in St. Michael's Estate in Inchicore. There is growing frustration among the local community that nothing has happened in a year. We saw...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will make a couple of opening comments and then ask a few questions. It is fair to say this committee has probably been behind the curve in terms of addressing and discussing the issues being raised today. That is partly, I suppose, because so much of our focus has been on the acute end of the housing crisis and therefore housing supply and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Mr. Barry says embodied carbon, that is the carbon that is a consequence of the production of the materials in the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is CLT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to mention two things. For the record, notwithstanding the fact that they are going to give us the document, could the witnesses give us a little bit of detail on how the operation in Tipperary works, its costs and its origins? If that model works we do not have to reinvent the wheel. This could be rolled out in local authorities over several years. I asked a question about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are the annual operating costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the cost of those retrofits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that per unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In some sense the solution to the loan finance is what already exists in the social housing sector. We have a Housing Finance Agency which provides Government-backed low-interest loans at 2% to 3% blended. The issue is the political question of whether, because they are on balance sheet, the State is willing to take that on. A facility could be easily designed, which could be operated by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: And new homes.