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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Rising rents, rising house prices.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: In homelessness.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think he minds.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We would be delighted if he would answer the question the leader asked.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: My only ambition is to build affordable homes, something the Government promised and has refused to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are no affordable homes.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Cancer Services (15 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the upper age limit for BreastCheck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21944/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Tut-tut.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. There is a lot of data in the CCMA's presentation but it is not necessarily presented in a way that I find easy to understand. I have some very specific questions on the numbers. The representatives of the CCMA or the other organisations may wish to answer. How many new applications have been made since the enhanced scheme opened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that. It is reasonable for us, as committee members, to ask a very simple question which is: since this revised scheme opened the year ago, how many applications have been made? A reply to a parliamentary question in January advised that 236 applications had been made as of January. Does anybody know the total number of new applications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How many have been refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Jordan know how many have been refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: At the moment I only want to know about new applications. Of the 436 new applications that have come in, how many have progressed? Can Mr. Espey give us any information on the status of those applications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That means 16 have been excluded. What about the others?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can Mr. Espey give us some information in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Of those, how many have drawn down any of that grant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: These are pretty basic questions. I know people work really hard on this scheme, but it is really important that we are able to get a sense of what is happening. A total of 195 of those 436 have been offered or awarded a grant of some form based on remediation option. How many of them have drawn down any of that money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: When the legislation was rammed through the Dáil last year, we were told that it would fix many of the problems. The expectation was that we would start to see a significant increase in the number of applications and applications being processed more quickly. I am not hearing anything to tell me that we have a higher rate of applications or a quicker processing time of those new...