Results 14,021-14,040 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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not suggesting we go on to other areas.

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to be cheeky and break my own proposal because I have two questions on financing that are somewhat time bound. Is that okay?

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question on public private partnerships, PPPs. I would very happily see the 100 units in the Grange in Clondalkin as part of the scheme. Is it a section 85 agreement that is currently going to the four different local authorities? What is it called when one local authority is the lead?

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Am I correct that it is section 85?

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that a value-for-money exercise is required as part of that. That value-for-money exercise must determine that the prices that come in for delivery of those units are better value for money than the traditional means of undertaking the same piece of work. I believe that is how it is worded. Unusually, this PPP is not just for design and build but also for the management and...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That makes sense to me. Is it wise for the Minister---- sorry. The Secretary General is not going to answer if I phrase it that way. Is it wise as a general operational principle to announce the approved budget for a specific scheme in advance of tendering? Does that not give the applicants commercially sensitive information which it would be better if they did not have, or is that...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. However, we can do that with design and build only, in the same way we can do it with design, build and operate.

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Elected members of Dublin City Council were being asked on Monday of this week to approve in principle the section 85, which just starts the process rolling. However, they are completely blind in terms of the financing of this. The bit of the question which the Secretary General did not answer is whether elected members, in local authorities or here, will be able to know what that benchmark...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Essentially, elected members in local authorities will be asked to sign up to this process although they will be completely blind to the extent of the potential financial liability, say, per unit delivered. With social housing, we know roughly - the managers will tell us - that, for example, in a big urban area the benchmark is usually around €200,000 per unit. Elected members are...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I understand that, part of the role of elected members, whether in a local authority or here, is to say, "If I am being asked to sign up to something, if I am going to approve a Part 8 planning process and sign up to this section 85 and allow this project to go ahead, am I satisfied that it is a good use of taxpayers' money?" That is in no way to suggest that the people involved in the...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My problem is how this benchmark is established. I apologise to the Chairman, but the only reason I am pressing this is because local authorities must vote on it in the coming weeks. The information is time-sensitive. I go back to what is unique about the proposal. It is a 25 year management and maintenance agreement, as I understand it, so somebody somewhere will calculate what he or she...

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 (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman for her indulgence.

Business of Dáil (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the proposition on the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, there is simply no reason we should be delaying the work of the committee. We could have and should have finished this week. This is just kicking the can down the road because we cannot get an agreement between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. We are fundamentally opposed to this part of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government promises a €42 billion capital investment programme. This includes investment in schools, hospitals, housing and infrastructure. Obviously, all of this is good news for job creation. However, too many construction workers are being forced into bogus self-employment contracts. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has estimated that this has cost the State...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Out of almost 200,000.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is 3,500 properties over six years. It is shameful.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to also express my deepest sympathy to the O'Brien family for the tragic loss of their three children and their sister in Clondalkin yesterday. Of the homeless families in Dublin, 60% have been in emergency accommodation for more than six months and 40% have been in bed and breakfasts, hostels or hotels for over one year. There are 138 families who have spent more than 18 months...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know the Tánaiste has difficulty with housing statistics. She told the Dáil two weeks ago that 8,500 social houses were currently being built across the State but the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government's own figures clearly state that the figure is only 1,892. That is a very a big difference and I am sure the Tánaiste would like to correct the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: And yet homelessness figures are still rising.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the additional public funding that would be required to replace current private income in public hospitals at current levels; the details of private incomes in public hospitals and hospital groups in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/17]