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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope "Callan's Kicks" was not listening to that because he would have a field day with it next Saturday. I thank the Minister for the detailed response and I will come back to some of that on Report Stage rather than trying to rush through it in the few minutes we have left. I will press a few amendments and withdraw a few others

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I have my support recorded? Is that appropriate?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendments to Screening for environmental impact assessment 16. The Act of 2000 is amended—(a) in section 176A(3) by substituting the following for paragraph (e):"(e) any such other information as is required under Directive 2011/92/EU as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU where such information shall be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can my support be recorded?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 95:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 42 16. (1) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by substituting "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority shall" for "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority may". (2) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by inserting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 97:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 7(1)(a), and consequential amendment to sections 7(2), 7(3) and section 22. 16. (1) Section 7(1)(a) of the Act of 2016 is amended by inserting the following after subparagraph (ii)—"(iii) any determination under this part shall be made in accordance with sections 176B and 176C, and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question for the Minister. Is there a timeline or date for transposition of the 2014 environmental impact assessment directive? It will not be transposed by 16 May 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (11 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of engineers employed in the roads department of Galway County Council; if they are allocated by geographic area or by project; and if they have the resources necessary to deliver their current work plan. [17989/17]

Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The three schemes to which the Minister of State referred are good. While he often complains that I give him a hard time, I have publicly stated these schemes are worth supporting. The problem is that over the six years of the schemes, the Department's target is to deliver 6,600 houses, which amounts to 3% of the vacant housing stock to which Deputy Casey referred. I urge the Minister to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the figure of 850 in accommodation. It is clear that he is not willing to give a commitment that those families will be moved into permanent tenancies. If I understand him correctly, he is saying that they will only be moved into other emergency accommodation if that is what is in their best interests. If somebody does not need supported temporary accommodation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am trying to get a commitment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a clear commitment that the Minister made some months.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is rolling back on it because he is failing to meet-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to listen.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support that. I said that I support it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that levels of homelessness have increased by 27% in the past 12 months, and that February homeless figures show that increases in individual family and child homelessness have reached historic highs, the way in which he intends to meet his target date of July 2017 to ensure that no families will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister for their flexibility. Despite our best efforts at the water committee, the committee has just voted not to take a decision until next week. This is why I was delayed. The Minister knows what the issue is and I am looking for very specific answers to the question. How many of the 1,239 families in the most recent homeless figure...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is all very interesting, but none of it answered any of the questions I asked so I will go through them again. What we all want to hear is not the aspiration because we support that. What we want to know is specific information, as follows. How many of the 1,239 families recorded in emergency accommodation are in hotels, and of those in hotels how many does the Minister expect to have...

Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not yet.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he will undertake to strengthen SICAP, social inclusion and community activation programme, in view of the fact there is a commitment in the programme for a partnership Government to strengthen SICAP and increase RAPID funding; and if he will commit to a review of the flawed tendering process that...