Results 12,661-12,680 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy has only five minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of my questions have been covered by Deputy O'Brien, so I will not repeat them. I want to make it very clear that we have indicated to the Minister that we are very supportive of the principle of the residential tenancies (amendment) Bill 2018. I think most members of this committee have said we would like to assist the Minister in having it proceed as speedily as possible. Given the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have just a couple of supplementary questions. Ms Carroll said in her initial response that she would favour the idea of the annual registration and would have concerns about a criminal offence if a landlord did not notify of a change, be it a rent, tenancy change, etc. Does she think that having an annual registration with a possible civil offence, if that is not complied with, would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are universities covered by that exemption?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Carroll's point is that the private purpose-built student accommodation is covered under the RTA and RPZs. She is calling on students with licences in those premises to take a case if they feel their rights have been infringed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Farha and Ms Kerin for their presentations. Ms Farha has been exceptionally busy during the two short days that she has spent in this country and we have followed her interventions. It is a pity that she is not here on an official visit to assess our implementation, or non-implementation, of the right to housing because the picture might be a little more bleak than her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We asked for that but it was refused.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the first two recommendations from the report of the expert panel on concrete blocks in counties Donegal and Mayo will be implemented; and when a redress scheme for the affected families will be introduced. [24772/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (12 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated annual cost if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private well water users covered the full operating costs of providing water for domestic use. [25222/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The shocking revelations in recent days in respect of the extent of illegal adoptions carried out by the St. Patrick’s Guild adoption society, run by the Sisters of Charity, have rightly caused much anger and angst. Successive Governments have known about this and have failed to act despite reams of evidence. The situation persists that there is no statutory basis upon which people...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, released the April homeless figures and they make for grim reading. The number of children living in emergency accommodation is up by 43 on the figure for the previous month. The number of older people without a home is also up. According to the figures, the overall picture is stagnant. Despite claims...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Meanwhile, outside the bubble of Government Buildings, more and more people are becoming homeless. We should not be having an argument over the figures, but behind every one of them is a real person, for example, a mother with a child trapped in emergency accommodation or a pensioner who is unsure where he or she will sleep tomorrow. At a time when the economy is growing, the number without...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I quoted him accurately.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what Louth, Waterford and Meath county councils stated in writing.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They have stated they were instructed.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the Government that is politicising the figures.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are substantiated by the housing committee. They were before the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be honest.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have not misquoted anyone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was repetitive but they were good points.