Results 13,021-13,040 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I would appreciate it if somebody could explain for the benefit of the committee what is meant by a risk based approach. I think I understand it from the presentations, but it would be helpful to have it explained in plain English and more detail. One of the things that comes to mind first is cost. The NFGWS has given indications of cost in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that an annual investment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To follow up on that response, the figure goes up to €700 million or so the following year and settles at around €800 million to €900 million at the end of the period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us say the May 2019 deadline is met and that there is a transitional period. Is Mr. Laffey saying the issue is not whether the Government would give extra capital of €200 million or €300 million and then €100 million annually but the question of his organisation not having the capacity to take on the extra investment? Its capacity means that it would have to do it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that mean, for example, that work to upgrade the 38 agglomerations that are falling foul of the urban wastewater treatment directive would take longer, or would pipe upgrades in the public water system take longer? I presume that would be a logical outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What will be the cost of installing a filtration system in a small to medium-sized scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can Mr. McDonald give us a ballpark figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question for the Department, on the basis of what the witnesses have said with regard to the fact that the current draft may not be as sensitive to regional differences as it could be and that a level of assessment or monitoring might be required that might be greater than necessary in certain areas. Can I take it that the witnesses think the current draft might have some...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the annual increase that matters, as the Taoiseach knows.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is over 4%-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 29% in Sligo.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stop misleading the Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of families in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22 by size and number of children; the number with leave to remain; the reason for the recent transfer of 50 families from another centre; when the contract for the direct provision centre ends; and his plans for its renewal. [13052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters relating to the enhanced leasing scheme (details supplied). [12008/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a redress scheme for families with homes affected by Mica defective concrete blocks in County Donegal and by pyrite in County Mayo will be introduced. [13063/18]

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to respond briefly to some of the arguments put forward by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minster for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, in defence of the SCU. We are told that the purpose of the unit is to streamline Government communications, to co-ordinate, to train and to promote best practice. How much of the time of the 14 members of this unit is dedicated to that? How...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the report on the costings of pay equality as called for in an amendment to section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 will be published; and the timeframe for implementing the recommendations of the report. [11948/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report on the costings of pay equality as called for in an amendment to section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 will be published; and the timeframe for implementing the recommendations of the report. [11949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 901. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual funding to each of the 124 school completion programme clusters in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to date in 2018; the per capita funding figure for each cluster for each year; the criteria used in determining the funding level for each cluster; the information gathered by her Department to determine the level of need in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: DEIS Scheme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 902. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the percentage of pupils in non-DEIS schools that have come from DEIS feeder schools will be considered when changes or future funding allocations to the schools completion programme are being made; if issues such as rent supplement and housing assistance dependency in private housing estates will be taken into account; the location...