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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: This is just like the report of the Minister of State.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome and fully support the Labour Party Bill tabled by Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. Most of the measures in the Bill are eminently sensible and should have been made law back in 2016 when we were debating the Government's Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill. The Minister is not opposing this Bill today but he should sit down with Deputy O'Sullivan and other members of the...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: He is always draws the short straw.

Homeless Prevention Bill 2018: First Stage (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled An Act to amend the Housing Act 1988 to provide a legal definition of persons at risk of homelessness and to give the Minister for Housing and local authorities the power to provide such persons with supports to prevent them from becoming homeless. As the House knows, the homeless crisis continues to deepen. The vast majority of...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Mitchell O'Connor.

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Opposition parties that outlined their support for the Bill. I also thank the Government for its support of the spirit of the Bill and its statement that rent predictability is in line with Government policy. I do not accept that this is a complex issue. Either one believes students should live with 20% to 30% rent increases or one does not. If one does not, then a range of...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time. Students should not be hit with rent increases of 20% to 30%. No student should be paying €1,000 per month for student-specific accommodation. No student should have to pay three times his or her Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, maintenance grant in rent. Allowing these rents is not just unfair, it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the spend on the pyrite remediation scheme for each year since its introduction; the number of units remediated in each year; and the estimated future costs for homes approved for the scheme but at which work has not yet taken place. [23637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units brought into social housing use via NAMA by year and local authority; the number by local authority purchase, approved housing body purchase and narrows lease; the annual cost each year to secure these units for social housing use; the estimated future annual costs arising from these units that...

Report on Building Standards, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Motion (24 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair of the committee for sharing time. We tried at the committee right throughout this debate to keep it non-partisan and non-political. That is one of the reasons the report has such strength. The speech from the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, however, was very disappointing. It was also disappointing that an almost identical speech was read by the Minister of State,...

Report on Building Standards, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Motion (24 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I acknowledge the work and support of the Chairman of the committee, Deputy Maria Bailey, during the committee's proceedings and the production of the report. The origins of the report lie in the experience of many of us in working with residents who live in buildings with latent defects that were built during the Celtic tiger period. From my experience in Clondalkin and Lucan, I understand...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of his Department's dealings with a visa application by a person (details supplied) which is currently before the courts [23017/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (24 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislative measures and-or public procurement guidelines in place to ensure that public funds and the ownership of State or council lands used in the provision of social housing built or acquired by approved housing bodies is secured for the State or local authority and-or is recoverable in the event of the insolvency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place during the scheme assessment process to ensure that the provision of affordable housing by local authorities or approved housing bodies on council or State owned lands does not unfairly compete on unit sale price with private sector investment in the supply of affordable housing under the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a number of comments and questions. I am a huge fan of choice-based letting, having been on South Dublin County Council for a number of years. Not only is it a much more efficient system in terms of turnaround properties but it also gives the applicant some control over the properties they express an interest in. We should not discount...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When does Ms Hurley hope to have all local authorities operational?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That relates to notices to quit in the private rental sector whereas the issue I am raising relates more to home repossessions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dublin does it effectively.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Register (23 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of new voters on the supplementary register by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22760/18]