Results 14,641-14,660 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 12 to 23, inclusive, have been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would ask the Minister to please answer my question, for clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked the Minister a second question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked for some time to be set aside after we deal with the amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister introduced Second Stage of the Bill he made clear that the intention of the expert commission was to try to take the heat out of the debate and enable us, to use the Minister's words, to have a rational conversation about it. Many of us were sceptical about the intention of the commission but were willing to take the Minister at his word. Having said that, the fact that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister published the terms of reference of the commission the Department's press release described them as draft terms of reference. For this reason, many of us took time to submit amendments to the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister still think he is a very good person to do it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a very important question to answer.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme, per year, since the scheme was introduced in 2012; and the amount of this allocation that has been spent per year since 2012, in tabular form. [19253/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 277. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the figures on increases under the housing assistance programme taking effect from 1 July 2016 by county in tabular form. [19778/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide the figures on increases under the housing assistance programme taking effect from 1 July 2016 by county, in tabular form; the guidance he will issue to community welfare officers; and the criteria that will need to be satisfied, in view of his plans to regularise informal top-up payments to landlords. [19790/16]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I acknowledge and welcome the breadth of the documentation we have been given. It sets a very good precedent for the engagement between the Departments and the committee. I acknowledge the stated commitment of the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, and the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, to work collaboratively with the committee. This is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that €29 million included in the €117 million figure?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Technically speaking, the underspend-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the underspend on the mortgage-to-rent scheme?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two final questions. First, regarding the capital spend, just so I understand the figures correctly, is the €29 million carried over included in the total capital allocation for this year of around €400 million? Second, if it is carried over, does that mean that only an additional €88 million has been spent when the underspend from last year is taken out so that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of those 13,000 solutions from last year included keys to houses in which people were already living. That is my point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a separate issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions on water and one on the environment. My first question relates to the funding of the meter programme in the Estimates. My understanding is the metering programme is planned in two phases. The first is almost complete and the second includes apartment complexes and units that are more difficult to meter for a variety of reasons. I understand there is an underspend in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of follow-up questions, partly because the Minister did not answer either of the questions I put to him. On metering, my question was not on whether metering should happen. That is not a discussion for this meeting, which is on the Estimates. My specific question arises from my understanding that Irish Water does not consider that phase 1 of the metering programme will be...