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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 (4 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the register becomes mandatory, it will expand significantly in scale, particularly when one takes small and medium-sized contractors and building companies into consideration.

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's response was disappointing. He used the phrase "all relevant players ... move ... from confrontation." There has been no confrontation by the Catalan Government or people. If one watches all of the media coverage, what one will see is people trying to assert their rights peacefully and in a dignified way. Confrontation is certainly not how I would describe it as....

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was in Barcelona and Catalonia over the weekend as a guest of the Catalan Government and was accredited by its electoral commission, participating in a delegation of approximately 40 members of European countries' parliaments observing the election. I witnessed first-hand many disturbing scenes that we saw on the news over the weekend and spoke to many people who had been hit with plastic...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Delaying of the work of the committee-----

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last November the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 was passed in the Dáil without dissent and in May considered by the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government at pre-legislative scrutiny stage. We have since been unable to progress it because the Minister responsible has not brought forward the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the right project this time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 289. To ask the Minister for Health if the medicinal cannabis compassionate access programme to be launched soon will allow consultants to prescribe cannabis oil with THC content; and if the scheme will allow a consultant to determine the level of THC content of the oil based on the medical needs of the person in question. [41243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (3 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the reason lidocaine pain relief patches have been removed from the list of medicines available under the medical card; when this decision was taken; the evidence used to support this decision; the number of persons affected by this decision; the expected savings arising from this decision; and if the decision can be reconsidered for persons in view of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four straightforward questions. The last time we met I raised the need for independent inspections of emergency accommodation. Since then the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, has completed its work on the national quality standard framework and have presented that work to the Department along with a proposal for the establishment of a national equality standards office which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about the two reports on the cost of construction; one which was done in-house by the Department, and the other which is looking at international comparisons, as I understand it, by the housing agency.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of SCHEP tenancies in which properties are owned by private landlords; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41058/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We could have a Dáil tap-----

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----because the average household charge will be based on the dwelling.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come to that in a second, but that was not the argument Deputy Cowen made during the committee. He wanted the basic threshold to be on average usage per person, not per household. Fine Gael has clearly won that and I believe Deputy Cowen has some explaining to do, particularly to his own colleagues who he marched up to the hill on two or three occasions during the committee-----

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and back down again over this very issue.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: He was, when he could not get what he wanted from Fine Gael, although now he is conceding to its central point at the start of that row. With regard to an allowance for households of five or more, where does that leave the four-person household, which is particularly disadvantaged under this proposal? It also creates perverse incentives for the one-person household which, if I read the...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Cowen seems to have forgotten some of the more heated sessions at the water charges committee, to which I will return to refresh his memory and point to the difference between what he claims to have got at the end of the process and what is included in this legislation. The Bill before us is the latest in the long and sorry saga of Fianna Fáil's and Fine Gael's water charge...