Results 12,761-12,780 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have evidence to prove it and I will present it to the housing committee tomorrow.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I absolutely will not withdraw the remark.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: In fact-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is a political charge. I am absolutely convinced and there is mounting evidence on this fact that the Minister has allowed the direct manipulation downwards of housing and homelessness figures. We will challenge it tomorrow in the committee. If the Minister believes what-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----he is saying he would come to the dedicated session of the housing committee on this issue and this issue alone which we have requested-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----sooner rather than later.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have to say-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Given how bad-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Given how badly the Minister has handled this, I have to say this particular debacle could be the undoing of his time as housing Minister in this State.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let me turn to Fianna Fáil. One of the great mysteries of the Thirty-second Dáil is Fianna Fáil housing policy. On this, I agree with the Government. It is almost as if it has become the fourth secret of Fatima. Deputy Darragh O'Brien's predecessor in the role kept his cards so close to his chest that many of his own party members did not even know what Fianna Fáil...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: The jury is out at this point on whether there will be any actual substance. On the basis of this motion it does not seem to be the case. It has nine demands, none of which has any specifics. There are no targets or costings and the idea that setting up an agency, which would take at least a year to do, is any quicker than what the Government has proposed is absolutely absurd. It...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----I took the time to table what it actually delivered on-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: What it actually-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: What Fianna Fáil actually did-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions. Let us look at Fianna Fáil's record. Over those 14 years, it delivered on average 5,500 real social houses a year. That is less than the current Government is delivering. During that same period of time, the number of subsidised private rental tenancies for social housing actually increased. They increased beyond recognition. By the end of the...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: What I would like to hear from Deputy O'Brien, whether it is today, later on in the debate or between now and budget time, is what increasing capital investment he would like to see in budget 2019-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and what specific targets and specific interventions. Sinn Féin will not be supporting the motion. We have tabled an alternative set of proposals which are based on what we have done in the past in the costed delivery of social and affordable housing. The measures are very clear. Our view is there needs to be a doubling of capital investment by the State in the delivery of...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions.