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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In trying to work out the economic cost, the level of borrowing projected for capital investment would have to be taken into account. If one water utility had a very low level of projected borrowing, that would impact on how EUROSTAT viewed that test, whereas a very high level, such as in the case of Irish Water, could also have an impact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the capital funding post-2019 remain on or off-balance sheet? Would Irish Water be able to sustain the projected capital investment post-2019 within the existing debt rules that have been subscribed if the figure is on-balance sheet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: My last-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is my last question to the Department. One of the issues the committee has to consider is that of a charge for excess or wasteful use of water. There are two relevant questions that I think we are all interested in. Depending on where one pegs average household or personal use, what would be the potential revenue stream from it versus the cost of administering such a scheme?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is separate to metering. This is more in terms of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has the Department started looking at the issue? Can it provide the committee any information on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy for these questions to be added to those to get a written reply if that is necessary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I also wish to emphasise that, whatever the outcome of the committee, there has to be absolute parity between those in group or private water schemes and those not in them. That is probably the priority for all of us in this particular discussion. One of the things I was interested in asking about, and again a written response is fine, is the gap between the subvention and the actual cost....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly; just to emphasise it. Likewise, with the capital grants, if a constituent in a large urban area of Dublin builds his or her own home, there is a cost to connect to the water mains. Currently he or she has to pay the local authority and Irish Water and those costs are now increasing. In South Dublin County Council, people have to pay i€3,000, €4,000 and, sometimes,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Dublin Mid-West constituency in 2015 and 2016. [5628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding which was allocated to the Dublin Mid-West constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [5629/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here. [5630/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the persons and the groups on the departmental working group considering the regulatory approach in relation to online letting platforms such as a company (details supplied); the number of times this working group has met or plans to meet; and if the working group will be meeting with and taking submissions from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (7 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rationale for excluding approved housing body, AHB, rent reviews from the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, adjudication process; and if he will reconsider this exclusion and bring forward appropriate legislation that would allow AHB tenants that feel the outcome of their event review is not fair...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (2 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report from the expert panel established to investigate problems that have emerged with concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published; and if he will ensure that the full report and recommendations as submitted to him will be published. [5031/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their contributions so far. I repeat the apologies for the delay earlier. I appreciate that it was probably difficult for the witnesses sitting outside, but it was much more difficult in here. The witnesses probably had the better location for the time. I wish to make a couple of general points and I also have some questions. I believe the Public Water Forum is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The other issue is around the representing of the voice of the consumer or the user. Of course, they do not have a voice or a single voice as there are a variety of different views out there. For me, the real value of the forum is if it becomes a facilitator for all those different voices to get access to the information they need and have that voice, which is something the Public Water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the delegates for their presentations. A number of them have been prominent in keeping the issue of vacant properties and sites in the public arena and I urge them to continue to do so because it will add to the pressure many members are trying to put on the Government to have this issue resolved. All of us are greatly frustrated that thus far, of the five pillars of Rebuilding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is directly related to the issue of vacant sites. I appreciate the Chairman's desire to defend Government policy, but the meeting is to hear-----