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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 assure them that just because there are fewer of us does not mean we will not give them a hard time or take up as much of their time as we did with the previous witnesses. As I have many questions, I will put some in a first round and come back to some of the others later. I will start with the near zero energy building standard. One of the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses. I have some additional questions and perhaps will pick up on some of the questions that were answered. With regard to the SEAI's grants, the witness spoke about the number of people who applied to the SEAI and utilised grants and how they could be activated to go further. Does the SEAI keep a record of the number of people who applied to the authority but were unable...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that that is being monitored through the building control amendment regulations, BCAR, system.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Given the new areas of expertise, is the Department satisfied there are sufficient skills and competence among the assigned certifiers, who are essentially the watchdogs who are doing the inspections and submitting the reports to the building control management system? Is there not a requirement, given its importance, to have an additional level of monitoring or checking at a departmental...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Assigned certifiers are a key part of monitoring. Were they part of that training? Is Mr. Armstrong satisfied that that section of the industry, who are the people going out, inspecting developments as they are being built and submitting certificates to local authorities, has the requisite level of skills? That would include not just designers and construction workers but certifiers too.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What is CPD?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: How many people make initial contact but, for whatever reason, are unable to secure grants? Does Mr. Gannon have an analysis of what prevents them from going through with it?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What about when they have to be removed?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In respect of solar planning regulations, the problem is certain categories of buildings, such as schools, are not included in exemptions. The sizes that are exempt were based on older technologies and this creates particular problems for the PVs. I acknowledge the Department is limited in staff and has a million other things going on but when I hear that a review is to be concluded by the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is related to the issue of gas boilers. Mr. Armstrong did not say we would eventually have to replace the majority of them. It concerns their life cycle and when they have to be repaired, etc. Is it the view of the Department and the Government that many houses can continue to have gas boilers indefinitely or will they have to be phased out at some point? How would that be achieved?...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond to some of the points made by the two Ministers of State and Deputy Casey. The Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, said this issue had not undergone sufficient scrutiny. Everyone else has referred to the very detailed work of the Constitutional Convention, which was very substantive. There was also detailed consideration of this proposal at the Committee on Housing and...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fact, if we had a legal right to housing his county would not be in the mess it is in at the minute, because the Government, the Opposition and the local authorities would be forced through the courts to deliver the homes that the Deputy said he wants to deliver for his constituents. One of the most striking aspects of this debate is the absence of the Minister for Housing, Planning...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know he is in the Seanad. I can see that.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The idea that the Minister for Housing-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----could not take-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I can handle myself; the Leas-Cheann Comhairle should not worry. I am used to being heckled.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The idea that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government could not have taken half an hour to come out to participate in this crucially important debate speaks volumes for the Government and the fact that the lead spokesperson for Fianna Fáil could not have been bothered to show up - I presume we will see tweets of him canvassing in his constituency for local government...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Vótáil.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our ambition is far greater.