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Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." The amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act is very straightforward. It seeks to ensure that future rent reviews are linked to the consumer price index. This is an issue on which the last Government deliberated but, unfortunately, it chose not to address it. I appeal to the Minister responsible for housing to reconsider this...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: First Stage (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Rent Certainty Bill. It is of great importance, particularly to stop the flow of families into homelessness because of the spiralling cost of rent. I urge the Minister to give it active consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he will address the first ground of the Court of Justice of the European Union's judgment in case C-50/09 in terms of legislative provisions in the area of water discharge licensing, and to ensure full compliance with Articles 2 to 4, inclusive, of the environmental impact assessment directive relating to planning...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a few questions and a comment that will put the questions in context. One thing to which many members of this committee are trying to find a solution is that while we have a huge and growing housing need for families at the lower end of the income spectrum in particular, at the same time local authorities have been starved of resources,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In Mr. Palmer's view, on the basis of the Government's projections over the next number of years, is it possible to increase the absolute level of debt but within the debt-reduction rule without disrupting the other two rules, the expenditure benchmark and the structural balance? If so, by what margin?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The questions that were not answered concerned the NDFA, PPPs and the length of time it is taking and whether we can maintain vehicles off-balance sheet in light of the Irish Water ruling and the Eurostat clarification in March on PPPs.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are they notional commencement dates for those first 500 units?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Five years is exceptionally long even by the standards our long-winded public procurement processes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to tease out a little further the potential off-balance sheet options. We have a potentially significant investment capacity in ISIF and we have a vehicle that we know works in NAMA Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, whether it is kept as NARPS or NARPS 2. The difficulty is that if it is used as a way of providing 100% social housing, there is no commercial return because...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dublin City Council, for example, is currently considering a similar model that involves bringing in the private sector. It is leveraging its land. The difficulty when one brings in the private sector is that the cost of building the units, including all the compliance, is significantly higher than when local authorities alone are involved. I am specifically interested in a local authority...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be differential rents for a portion. There would be different-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be differential proportions and below market rents for other portions.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Irish League of Credit Unions appeared before the committee, its spokesperson indicated that the interest rate is not the big sticking point for credit unions and that they would consider a lower interest rate than they might have originally proposed to the NTMA and others a year and a half ago. Was that the sticking point in the discussions until that point because clearly there was...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of them were very expensive in the-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Association of Irish Local Government (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. Many of us who are former councillors share the frustration outlined in the presentation, as well as the councillors' belief that local authorities are best placed to deliver the increase in social housing that is required. I have a number of questions. Some of them do not necessarily reflect my view but the views of other people with whom I...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Dr. Lyons for his presentation. I look at the housing system as a system. One of the important points for our committee to consider is that what one does in one bit of the system just does not impact on that element, but affects the system overall. One of the items we are examining is that, because of the historical failure to invest in the adequate provision of social housing,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have, for the record.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Many of us on this committee represent constituencies that have very high levels of family homelessness and housing need. We have been working with many of the realities described by the witnesses and they confirm the picture of what we are experiencing in the constituencies. The job of this committee is to report and try to present as...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Do the witnesses know the overall level of funding reduction for the providers of homeless services like theirs since 2008? What has been the quantum of loss from then to now?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that €16 million include the services provided by SONAS?