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Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mixed tenure-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dishonesty of the highest order.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: An Taoiseach never tires of telling us that he wants to lead a republic of opportunity. Apparently he is a champion of those who get up early in the morning and go to work, unless of course they are a family earning less than €75,000 a year. It seems that in Deputy Varadkar's republic the only people who deserve affordable housing are the well off. Hundreds of thousands of working...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Taoiseach. I was hoping he would mention Hansfield in Fingal. I watched the Twitter clip yesterday of the Taoiseach in a hard hat. Initially I thought it was a "Callan's Kicks" satire because the Taoiseach was standing beside houses, the sale prices of which are €315,000 to €395,000. One would need a combined household income of between €81,000 and...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief and stick to the Bill. Anybody who thinks that the issue of water will be put to bed by this Bill is mistaken. Irish Water has published a proposal to move towards what it calls its single utility by 2021 at the cost possibly of 1,000 jobs and seeking to bring to an end the service level agreements with the local authorities four years early. That is going to have huge...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will respond briefly to some of the points made in the debate. When I was writing my opening speech, one of my questions was about how widespread breaches of minimum standards in the private rental sector are. I live in that sector and have done for 11 years. I have had three very good landlords. The straight answer, however, is that we just do not know. The reason is that there is an...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes, with alarm, the revelations regarding breaches of minimum standards in the private rental sector contained in last weeks RTÉ Investigates documentary ‘Nightmare to Let’; further notes that:— in 2016 only four per cent of private rental properties were inspected by local authorities; — in 2016 two thirds of inspected...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Acting Chairman is only prolonging our pain.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: One reason we just had the argument about the amendments that had been ruled out of order is the deficiencies in the Bill. I wish to put my comments on the three amendments into context. A number of us in the Chamber spent a very long period as members of the special water committee. We did so to go through a range of issues concerning the future funding of domestic water services. Some...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will see about that.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If Deputy Barry Cowen spent more time scrutinising-----

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am trying to speak through the Chair.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Deputy spent more time doing what he was paid to do - scrutinising legislation - than spreading untruths to journalists about delays in passing legislation, perhaps he might know what we are talking about.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: All of my amendments have been ruled out of order, as the Deputy well knows.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I believe it is the job of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to tell me to what I should speak, not the Deputy's.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy to support the amendments. I will talk about the other groups of amendments when they are under discussion.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible under EU VAT rules to apply selectively a reduction on the current rate of VAT to certain categories of house purchases, such as those bought by first-time buyers, houses on sale below a specified affordability level or houses sold at a price below a specified affordability level; and if VAT can be refundable or rebatable in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 636. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Rowlagh primary care centre, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; the status of project discussions with a college (details supplied) for a shared campus; the timeframe for submission of a planning application; the services that will be transferred from Rowlagh health centre to the new campus; and the new services being considered or agreed for the new...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (7 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 963. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the aftercare costs, some in excess of €35 million, facing some local authorities for closed landfills; and if these costs were recouped in full from the waste operators that used these landfills. [46285/17]