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Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Independents4Change, the Labour Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and others not only for supporting this Bill, but for co-signing it, which sends a very important signal to the other parties in the House and to the public. I would also like to congratulate the Secure Rents campaigners and urge them to keep up the...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are happy to take the Minister of State's extra seven minutes, if the Ceann Comhairle will give it to us.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." For four years the cost of renting a home has spiralled upwards. According to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, the average rent for a one-bedroom home in Dublin has increased by 24%. That is an extra €2,940 per year. The average increase for a two-bedroom home has been 21%, an extra €3,204 per year. In Cork, the home...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect the tens of thousands of families struggling with excessive rents would disagree. I suspect the families living in emergency accommodation would also disagree. The thousands of people who have signed the Secure Rents Campaign online petition definitely disagree. The reason we have brought forward this Bill is that we are seeking to put pressure on the Minister and his colleagues...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (29 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 678. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is anything prohibiting local councils from continuing to grant licences to small pay-by-bag domestic waste collectors while he is examining the future of pay-by-weight regulations following the suspension of their introduction by him earlier this year; and if he will consider the position of small pay-by-bag...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete subsection (f) the Chairman of the Joint Committee shall be Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh; This amendment proposes to remove subsection (f) from the motion. I do not dispute the majority of what the Minister said. He spoke to many of us by telephone last Wednesday when he outlined the overall composition of the committee. We accepted him on his...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I warmly welcome the comments of the Taoiseach yesterday on the move to recognise Traveller ethnicity. This is long overdue and has been welcomed by many organisations, including Traveller advocacy organisations and human rights and equality organisations. A report is to go to the social affairs committee but the House would like to know when we can expect the introduction of the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was going to say the Ceann Comhairle was in a very generous mood with time this morning, but-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not need the Ceann Comhairle's generosity. It appears that Fine Gael's mishandling of the issue of water charges is set to continue. Yesterday we finally saw the motions to establish the committee on the funding of domestic water services and they confirm yet another stitch-up between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Government has decided to impose Senator Pádraig Ó...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is just the latest instalment in the great Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael stitch-up on water charges.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: A majority of the Deputies elected to the House were elected on manifestos which included a commitment to scrap water charges, yet every time Sinn Féin has forced a vote on the matter, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have stitched it up to keep the issue of water charges alive. The people voted for abolition of this unjust charge, but what did Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael do? In a...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not only has the Tánaiste confirmed that it is the intention of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to deny the right of the committee to elect its own Chairman, unlike the other two special committees established since the start of the Thirty-second Dáil, she has also confirmed that the Government is imposing on the Seanad one of its four nominees. Ordinarily, when an Oireachtas...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that, with all of the U-turns, Fianna Fáil is confused about its own position and does not like to hear people remind it of this fact. My question is very simple. Why, for the first time since this Dáil was formed, is the Government seeking to impose a Chairman on a special committee contrary to ordinary procedure? Why for the first time, probably in decades, is the...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said last night, Sinn Féin has long supported the idea of a directly elected mayor but it does so in the context of local government reform. A purely symbolic position of mayor is of very little value, in and of itself, to the citizens of Dublin or anywhere else. I share the views of other speakers that we need a mayoral office with real executive powers, which give added value to...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: First Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: First Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide for rent certainty in the private rental market by linking changes in rent arising from a rent review to the Consumer Price Index and to provide for greater security of tenure by making Part 4 tenancies of indefinite duration and removing sale of property as grounds for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will add significantly to our Christmas party funds. It is a euro for every acronym. We are not joking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. As a councillor, I was a member of the local community economic development committee and, as such, I was involved in the production of the plan for South Dublin County Council and in the establishment of the public participation network. I would like to make some observations on the process and to hear the witnesses' responses in that regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Coffey spoke about the influence of councillors in spending decisions. My experience of the community activation programme tendering process as a member of the local community development committee was that we did not get to see the detail of what was being agreed. There was a sub-committee of the local community development committee that dealt with the tender. We had to approve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the four minutes we have left, many of us would really like to hear what both the CCMA and AILG have to say about two aspects of the planning Bill that will be coming before the Houses, namely, the strategic housing developments and the Part 8 arrangements. If the delegates could respond in four minutes, it would be useful.