Results 13,981-14,000 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is for Mr. McCarthy and it relates to completions. The answer he gave was the same as the answer the last time I asked the question. My problem is twofold. On the one hand, the Government plan is setting up the figure of 25,000 units annually as one of its major delivery targets. At the same time, the Department website, which I have before me, tells us that the figures Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have six areas of questions. The first concerns public private partnerships. We had a long exchange on this at the end of our previous meeting. Since then, I have met the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, the Department and Dublin City Council, DCC, and have spoken to the county manager of South Dublin County Council and to the Sinn Féin councillors in the councils...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: If they were, I would not support it. In the two models being discussed in Dublin city and south Dublin they are not getting land for free. My concern is that if cost rental does not happen, there will be a 70:30 split, 70% private and 30% affordable, which I would not support on public land. I am open to consideration of 30% social housing and 20% cost rental. My preference is cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not know the outcome of that exercise and I presume the Department would like the designation to remain as it is. If that were not the case, it would create a difficulty in the Rebuilding Ireland targets from the approved housing body sector. For example, Housing Finance Agency funding would go on balance sheet. Is there a worry about that or a plan B in case that happens to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know it is only a small point and not relevant to the current Department configuration but I was on the council when we heard of all these sites with an announcement by the previous Minister. There had been no consultation with elected members. My understanding is there was not an exhaustive process with the housing managers. I should be clear for the record. We desperately want those...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank People Before Profit for putting this matter on the agenda today. I will reflect on my experience as a Deputy in Clondalkin. Clondalkin Towers, one of the largest direct provision centres, is in the constituency. Like many politicians, we work very closely with the residents at that location. Over the five or six years that I have been a public representative in the area, what has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Remit (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if business improvement districts established under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 will be brought under the Freedom of Information Act. [15880/17]

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a constituency politician - I am sure this is shared by all Members - I make regular referrals to both the Citizens Information service and MABS. My experience has been that they provide exceptionally high quality services which are rooted in the community and, crucially and relevant to this debate, managed very well by the community. One concern about this proposal, a matter which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total moneys applied for from the European Commission for a programme (details supplied); the total moneys matched by the State; the total spend from both portions of the programme funding; the total amount of money returned to the European Commission; the total spend for each programme head and per each State agency under the programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (28 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the ongoing discussions between Tusla, a centre (details supplied), and South Dublin County Council regarding the provision of a new child and family centre in Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [14814/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homes delivered and tenanted through initiatives set out in Rebuilding Ireland to bring vacant stock back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the extension and refurbishment project for a school (details supplied); the reason the initial target date of September 2018 for the completion of the works and opening of the extension will not be met; when the project approval will pass to stage 2B; when a planning application will be submitted if it has not already been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Recognition (22 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has secured recognition from his Department; the location of the school; and the proposed enrolment levels and the relationship with a college (details supplied). [14401/17]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last week the Taoiseach promised legislation to amend the Constitution to give Irish citizens living outside the State the right to vote in presidential elections. In the same week he lobbied the US Administration for immigration reform for the undocumented Irish. While he was in the United States, the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland held a rally in Dublin calling for the same treatment for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability Programme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish a stability programme update in April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13387/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will not be a reduction in the number of teachers allocated to a school (details supplied). [13954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 23 February 2017, if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment and social housing current expenditure programme leases was intentional or accidental. [13155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to adequately upgrade the infrastructure in the wastewater plants in the 38 agglomerations across the State that are deemed to be in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. [13292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the assistant principal officer position in his Department, previously held by a person (details supplied) will be filled; and the name of the senior official in his Department that is now responsible for liaising with a group (details supplied) of affected homeowners in County Donegal. [13385/17]