Results 13,381-13,400 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: To comment on today's homelessness figures, it is Orwellian in the extreme to suggest that there has been progress. The Minister is right the number of families in emergency accommodation in Dublin has fallen by a total of eight but the number of children in emergency accommodation in Dublin has increased by 37. That is not progress. The total number of adults, children and families across...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those trends are going up. There are more adults and children now homeless.

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I seek a clarification on the circular. I welcome the Minister's comments, particularly those in response to the committee's report. There is something I am not clear about in the circular. I refer to the conditions outlined for an individual applying for a change of use for short-term letting in an existing single apartment. Does the circular imply that all such persons in such...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: All the three categories of homelessness - adults, child and family - are up on the previous month. The Minister should tell the truth.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The truth is that all three categories are up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The September figures for all three categories are up on August.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the target number of affordable units (details supplied) to be delivered in 2018 via the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, and the forthcoming affordable housing scheme. [45427/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question centres on the need for affordable housing. There seems to be confusion about what we mean. Affordable housing means housing that is available to purchase for families on gross incomes of between €45,000 and €75,000. That means houses for sale at somewhere between €173,000 and €288,000, including deposits. How many units in that price bracket will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the information, none of which, of course, answered the question, which asks for the number of units that would be within that affordable bracket. In fact, when the Minister talks about the bands identified by me, he did not use the bands I just read out - €173,000 to €288,000 - but, rather, the bands he provided in a reply to a parliamentary question I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is real confusion here. Housing units at €320,000, €310,000 or €300,000 are not affordable either in or outside of Dublin. I say that because it is only possible to borrow 3.5 times gross household income under the Central Bank's mortgage lending rules. The people who need affordable housing are on incomes of between €45,000 and €75,000. The band...

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I begin by expressing a certain degree of frustration? We have had to adjourn the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government for half an hour to give our statements in the Chamber. While that is not the fault of anyone currently in the room, it means that those of use who are on that committee and involved in this particular debate are put in an awkward position. We will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies for the disruption caused by the adjournment earlier. I wish to ask a range of different questions. We have discussed with the witnesses and others before today the whole issue of consumer protection element of building regulations and standards, and whether it is latent defects insurance or some other system can provide greater protection. When we put that idea to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did CIRI say why it could not give Ms Hegarty that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I may clarify the point, Ms Ní Fhloinn is arguing that these are not two separate issues and they need to be integrated in a single process as having a separate register and consumer protection function would not work properly. Is my interpretation of her argument correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the witnesses to circulate to the committee the documents to which they referred, specifically the reports from the Law Reform Commission and World Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As always I have more questions than the Vice Chairman would like but I will make them very brief. If the witnesses would like to give written responses rather than go through them all, I have no problem with that. The issue from our point of view is not about rogue builders; it is about ensuring there is a proper regulatory framework that is good for the industry, the employees in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Fitzpatrick accept Ms Hegarty's point about the risk factor, namely, that if there is too much self-regulation by the industry, it pushes up the risk and premium for the premium holder?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked nine specific questions but I only got a clear answer to one of them. Would it be possible for me to email the nine questions to the witnesses and to have their responses sent back to the committee for circulation? That would be helpful.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the findings of the independent review of funding for Traveller specific accommodation and the implementation of traveller accommodation programmes; and his plans to address the problems in the delivery of traveller specific accommodation identified in the report. [45347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that AHBs have secured sites and funding to enable them to meet their revised new build targets for 2018 to 2021. [45345/17]