Results 13,861-13,880 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason alleged claims of improper influence by named persons in a planning appeal are not being examined as part of an ongoing investigation regarding planning irregularities in the administration of planning in Donegal County Council. [22479/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the representatives of the CSO for their presentation. We often give officials from Government agencies a hard time when they come before this committee, but on this occasion I join Senator Boyhan in commending the work of the CSO and its staff. I think most of us in here are big fans of the work it does. It certainly assists us in our deliberations. I know from my experience of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there data for the other way around? I am interested in dwellings becoming vacant as opposed to becoming occupied.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would it be fair to say that the difference between the 30,000-odd or the 50,000-odd are the people who did not respond to the census and vacant new builds? Is that essentially what is being said?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (10 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the State is a party to the European Co-operation Group on Undercover Activities; and if so, the way it is ensured that the activities of this group are in compliance with articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (details supplied). [22313/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (10 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the operations of a person (details supplied) were sanctioned by Ireland under the European Co-operation Group on Undercover Activities. [22314/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (9 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the issue of pay inequality among post 2011 entrants to teaching and ensure that workers in the education system receive equal pay for equal work; and the timeframe for addressing this issue. [21454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gambling Sector (9 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Health when he will conduct a national gambling prevalence and impact study as recommended by the Institute of Public Health in 2010. [21501/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 25 January 2017, the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence refuges; and the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence step-down accommodation on the first day of each month in 2016. [21666/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Page 23 of the programme for Government commits to a new model of affordable rental to be delivered within the first 100 days of Government. In fact, the detail of the cost rental model was to be rolled out in quarter 3 of 2016. Unfortunately, we have yet to see it. With tens of thousands of individuals and families who are ineligible for social housing increasingly locked out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Collins, Mr. Ó Tuathail and Ms Brannick O'Cillín for both the legislation and the presentations. Before I ask my questions, I wish to put two general comments on the record. The first is that it is significant that the single largest issue on which the expert commission received submissions of interest was, as Deputy Collins has outlined, the issue of the need for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just wanted to follow up on Mr. Ó Tuathail's answer to that because it ties in with Senator Coffey's question. The first sentence of the amendment talks about the public water system. The word "system" here is very important. Let us say there is an asset that is part of the system today but in the future is decommissioned and is no longer part of the system, as outlined by Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I will start by saying that I found the presentation we got from the Department and the Minister's opening statement very disappointing because they do not say an awful lot more than what was said on Second Stage. In fact, the bulk of what the Minister has stated was said during the Second Stage debate in November, almost six months ago. The purpose of this meeting,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We all need a big hug once in a while.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I reassure the Minister that any of us proposing changes to the Constitution is fully aware of how serious a proposition that is. We take the Constitution, and proposals to change it, as seriously as the Government does. The Minister is right to say there have been occasions where bad decisions were made, often when decisions were rushed as a result of political considerations, such as one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is we cannot even scrutinise it at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want the Minister's advice. Our problem today is we are not getting it six months after he promised it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a comment to make and one final question to ask. I might get an answer to it. It is not a matter of weeks but almost six months since the Bill was debated. It is my understanding it has to proceed through Committee and Report Stages and into the Seanad. It will then be brought back to us. If we did not have the current delay, there would still be sufficient time to scrutinise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That was not the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: After an hour.