Results 101-120 of 15,709 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider and respond to concerns around the air, sea and rescue helicopter expressed in correspondence (details supplied). [53272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total number of discounted homes delivered each year; and the average value of the discount, in tabular form. [52967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether any of the properties bought by the Housing Agency under the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme have been sold on to approved housing boards and have been converted to cost-rental tenancies. [52968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the prohibitions that exist preventing local authorities selling Part V, social housing acquisitions and other social homes purchased from the private market under the tenant purchase scheme; and to list each prohibition and provide a summary of its rationale. [53057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the strategic review of the approved housing body sector. [53703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on when the scheduled five-year review of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority will commence. [53704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the County And City Management Association review of Section 10 funding; when the review was published; the main recommendations of the review; which of these have been accepted by his Department; and to publish a copy of the review on his Department website. [53808/25]

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and his team for the detailed briefing documents. First, I do not understand why the €250 million for the development levy waiver scheme has gone into subhead A3, local authority housing. Obviously, local authorities would have otherwise collected that development levy and that would have been used as part of the general Government funds. Surely that is not the...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I correct in saying that it is not money for the delivery of social housing and is simply to compensate the local authorities for the loss of development levies to the tune of €250 million?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason that is important is that the total spend under subhead A3 last year was €1.851 billion. When we take out the €250 million for the development levy waiver, which strictly speaking is for other purposes, the actual amount of money that is being allocated this year for local authority housing is €1.6 billion, so it is less than last year. The Minister is...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the second Revised Estimate since December but it is the third capital announcement that the Minister has made. The challenge here is that the total output of new-build social homes last year funded under this subhead was 7,860. A very large proportion of the 1,500 acquisitions would have come from that fund as well, although not all of them because some of them would have been...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister mean a carry-over and that he will use less of the money than what was allocated?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is confident that he is going to deliver the targets. Does he accept that there is not enough money in the pot right now to fund all of those, based on last year's outturn or output? If he is to deliver the 10,000 homes, he will need extra cash. That is a fair assumption, is it not?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not so much a question of the drawdown. We know the number of units that were delivered under that subhead last year and we know the cost of those. We know that the cost of both acquisitions and new builds has increased. If the Minister is going to deliver 2,140 extra new builds this year over last year, he is going to need more than an extra €83 million. I am not having a...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: We know there was very strong resistance from the Department of Finance and the Department of public expenditure and reform to the allocation of both this additional Revised Estimate and the one earlier in the year. We know that because of freedom of information documentation that I received from the Minister's Department. It seems that it was quite significant in that, according to the FOI...