Results 14,641-14,660 of 15,379 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Things were very cordial before Deputy Darragh O'Brien stepped into the Chamber.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The housing spokespeople are all here.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Read it out for the craic.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am far more tolerant than Deputy O'Dowd. At least, the Minister has agreed to regulate for this. I suggest that the Deputy work with the Minister to try to bring forward the regulations as a matter of urgency. I accept the Deputy's core point. I was a member of a local authority and we scrutinised the issue of NAMA houses very carefully. Two of the main problems for local...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: For all the policy criticism I make of the Minister, at least he has the decency to keep Members informed as to how matters are progressing. He has been very true to his word in that regard.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Here is what happened, in my estimation. Fianna Fáil saw the negative reaction of many people to the measures when they were announced. Fianna Fáil backbenchers realised that many of their constituents would not be covered by the 4% cap and would be hit by higher increases, or would not even be able to handle the 4%. Pressure mounted on Fianna Fáil to try to change what was...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: No, I am interested to hear the Minister.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am quite happy to have the additional information.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Anybody who uses the quarterly RTB index knows it has sub local authority areas. That information is already available up to quarter three. There is no reason that those areas could not be included now on the basis of those sub local authority areas. I also suspect, and the Minister can correct me later if I am wrong, that the RTB has the raw data and all it would require is a sufficient...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy was in Cabinet for a period of time.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: This group of amendments relates to the Government's strategy for the rental sector launched this week. As we have no other formal opportunity to discuss the strategy, I want to open my comments on these amendments by making some observations on it. Given the fact we were led to believe this was going to be a comprehensive strategy for the fundamental reform of the private rental sector over...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Was there political interference in the publication of those amendments?
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of Deputy Micheál Martin's proposal, Fianna Fáil knew the detail of the so-called rent predictability proposals before they were launched. Fianna Fáil also knew that the amendments by the Minister were going to be tabled and that we would get them this week. We knew this for weeks, yet at no stage did I hear any objection from Deputy Cowen, the party's housing...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and is now trying to present itself as being opposed to a proposition that it was actually going to agree to all along. Regarding the Order of Business, we have not seen the full set of amendments for this Bill. We were told by the Bills Office that they would be available at 7 p.m yesterday but they have yet to be published. I would like to know why. Did the Government block the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of the Chairman, amendment No. 72 has been ruled out of order by the Bills Office.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“ “The Aarhus Convention” means the Convention on Access to Information, Public Prticipation In Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters done at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998;”.”. As this amendment is connected with amendments Nos. 17 and 125, I would...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment makes no sense if it is to be discussed separately from amendment No. 17.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The substantive discussion will be on amendment No. 17. It would, therefore, be proper to discuss amendment No. 2 with that amendment. It would be quite academic if amendment No. 2 was discussed on its own.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I support amendment No. 3. I do not want to repeat the arguments I made on the Second Stage debate, but at that point I had raised my concern that the evidence presented to members suggested there were alternative ways of shortening the length of time it would take for the 15 large planning applications that were cited on the spreadsheet to be processed. There are on average 33 weeks spent...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State has studiously avoided answering my three questions and I shall ask him again.