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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (16 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 690. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the new communities unit shares information on the persons they accommodate with the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government or other authority with responsibility for housing. [24632/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Emergency Accommodation Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 689. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a record of the number of families that have been moved into private rented accommodation or other homeless services from new communities unit emergency accommodation units. [24631/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Staff (16 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are legislatively required term limits for the position of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland and if so, his views on the way these are currently being enforced. [25049/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: My party is happy to bypass the pre-legislative scrutiny on the basis the Minister has outlined. However, when we are given the draft Bills, particularly the planning ones relating to An Bord Pleanála and Part 8, any research the Department has that outlines the rationale behind the particular changes the Minister is proposing would be very welcome. Some of us are not yet convinced of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Senator Boyhan. I was going to say the same but I have only one point to add. It also would be good if, after Cabinet has approved the heads of Bill, the Minister and the Department were able to come to a dedicated meeting of the committee only on the heads of Bill at that stage. That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I have a couple of follow-on questions from last week. On the one-stop shop that Mr. Brian Kenny is overseeing, one of the concerns I have on the basis of the information we were given at the previous meeting is there would be, if I understand it correctly, a facility, probably in Dublin city centre, where family presenters could go to be assessed as to whether they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: A significant number of years is added on to their wait for a council property. in some cases five or six additional years on top of what is already ten years-plus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because we know the length of time people spend-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We know the length of time people spend on transfer lists so we can extrapolate from that. It is very straightforward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: How will the houses be sourced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chairman. As we have drifted into pillars 2 and 3, I have some questions on them. To facilitate other members, I am more than happy for the answers to be given to the committee at a later stage, be they in writing or whatever. I will stick to the questions. In pillar 2, the 47,000 units is broken down into 26,000, 11,000 and 10,000. I had asked previously if it was possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy for the questions to be dealt with next week, since they come under pillars 2 and 3. I do not mind their being deferred until then.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the heart of today’s debate is the very simple issue of tax justice. For decades a small number of very large global corporations have been engaged in aggressive tax practices. They have used their financial power to force countries into a race to the bottom. These companies have demanded ever lower tax bills and governments, large and small, have acquiesced. Governments have...

Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State said that with a straight face.

Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister said that with a straight face too. Well done.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to share time with Deputies David Cullinane, Martin Kenny and Dessie Ellis. I will take four minutes and each of the other speakers will take three minutes.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin supports the principle of tenant purchase. We do so because it keeps families in local authority estates, in particular as their income increases and their ability to purchase homes increases. As the Minister indicated very clearly, that contributes to more sustainable communities with a greater income mix, which is good housing policy. However, a badly designed tenant...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: First Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 by the deletion of section 28(1C), and to provide for related matters. In his absence I would like to thank Deputy Willie Penrose, who proposed the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016. I now have the image of the Taoiseach and Deputy Willie Penrose line-dancing in the AV room at the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: First Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I may well do that. The Bill I am introducing seeks to reverse a particularly bad decision of the former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly. Last year he made a very controversial amendment to the Planning and Development Act which allowed the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, for the first time in planning history, to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: First Stage (20 Jul 2016)

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