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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (10 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 929. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if lands or properties vested in wholly owned subsidiary incorporated bodies of local authorities in cases in which the chief executive is the sole shareholder have been duly entered in the register of fixed assets for each local authority will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30405/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (10 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 930. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will to take to ensure lands or properties vested in wholly owned subsidiary incorporated bodies of local authorities in which the chief executive is the sole shareholder have been duly entered on the register of fixed assets for each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30406/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 951. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation of Traveller specific accommodation funding to each local authority; and the value of the drawdown of that funding by each local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2018. [30907/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (10 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 952. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing work to address the issue of securing green certs or a form of certification for homes affected by pyrite but without structural damage. [30908/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 953. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure within his Department by project or funding headline for 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [30909/18]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It seems the Minister of State is not going to satisfy any of us.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State says this Bill is removing power from the Minister. There is not a single power removed from the Minister in the Bill or in any of the amendments. In fact, both the Bill, as we have discussed at length on Committee and Report Stages, and these amendments give additional powers to the Minister. It is not that it is our view as Opposition Deputies that we do not want...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Really?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I oppose amendments Nos. 18, 23 and 28. I have a couple of contextual points. I will repeat my central criticism of the Bill that I have been making since we first debated it almost two years ago, that the way in which the planning regulator is designed and would be set up in this Bill is absolutely contrary to the spirit and to the letter of the Mahon tribunal recommendation. Mahon was...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am okay. The Ceann Comhairle made my point.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not in the legislation.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Increasingly our debates in the Chamber on housing are becoming acrimonious. It is because the gap is growing ever wider between the Government's delivery in meeting housing needs and the rhetoric of Rebuilding Ireland. When Home Building Finance Ireland was announced in last year's budget I was taken by the idea that if done right it has the potential to be a positive contribution...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for the presentations. It is eight months since the "RTÉ Investigates - Nightmare to Let" documentary was broadcast and the Dáil unanimously supported a motion, of which one of the central recommendations was the introduction of a system analogous to the national car test, NCT. While the "RTÉ Investigates" programme obviously showed the very extreme end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They will follow a first offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, which is why I am asking if we should consider changing the law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that we work with up-to-date data. The difficulty with the data on the Department's website is that the most up-to-date data on the private rental figures is 2013-2014. If there are more up-to-date data, perhaps the Department could forward them on. I assume that the most up-to-date data are the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, annual performance and indicator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: All of that is very positive but my core question is, on the basis of the NOAC report, when maintenance, rent administration and the community functions are added together, the total cost for all the local authorities is still less than the total rent that is collected. Is rental income being diverted into other areas of service delivery or is all the rental income remaining within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can Mr. Walsh give his own case as an example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I do not disagree with most of what Ms Carroll said, there has been nothing in the discussion that could be construed as anti-landlord. In fact, having a strong NCT-type system is good for compliant landlords because it prevents what we hope is the majority of compliant landlords being undercut by rogue traders. We had this type of conversation with the Irish Property Owners...