Results 14,921-14,940 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Emergency Accommodation Provision (18 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when he contacted the Department of housing, planning and local government digital hub, the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive or Dublin City Council regarding the imminent closure of the Brú Aimsir hostel in County Dublin; and if he supports removing the 100 emergency beds currently in the hostel from the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 393. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of Irish Water’s new ten-year office lease, including why cheaper rental locations in, and outside, County Dublin were not assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9932/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 394. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the retirement plan of the former managing director of Irish Water, including the specific sum this person (detail supplied) will receive on officially retiring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9933/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether parents with joint custody and a social housing eligibility is entitled to be placed on the housing list with additional bedrooms to facilitate overnight stays with their children; and the guidelines he provides to local authorities on this matter. [10463/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Credit Union Lending (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the proposal by the Irish League of Credit Unions to provide loan finance for the provision of social housing; why he has not taken up these proposals to date and when he will [9861/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 554. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if parents with joint custody and an entitlement under the rent supplement scheme should also be entitled to receive payments under the scheme to provide accommodation that facilitates overnight stays with their children; and the guidelines he provides to his officials make decisions on these cases. [10462/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (17 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 589. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) will in fact be sentenced in the Courts in Egypt on 29 June 2016; if the person’s last thirteen trial hearings were in fact the trial; if this stands up to international standards of a fair trial, given that the person has had no opportunity to testify in defence and no witnesses have been brought...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Daly said earlier that repaying the debt was NAMA's top priority. I do not need to remind him that is not what the NAMA Act says. The Act gives NAMA a number of tasks. Section 2(b)(viii) of the Act talks about contributing "to the social and economic development of the State". Mr. Daly went on to say that in his view, repaying the debt is the best social dividend. I would have thought...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not that I want clarity.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Until recently, I was a councillor on a local authority that worked extensively on this issue. I understand some of these dynamics. I am conscious that it is important in these public sessions to challenge the suggestion that local authorities are simply not taking units by putting it on the record that the picture is more complex.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We had two of the most senior housing managers in the country, from Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council, at our first session. They told us that after the planning stage has passed, the tendering and procurement stage can take between a year and a half and two years. The shortened process that was made available for the rapid build project in Ballymun is currently available...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is fair to say that section 10 of the Act does not prioritise any of the eight objectives?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point had more to do with some of my colleagues.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In regard to Clonburris land, that would not apply.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was one question that was not answered about increasing the Part V element of the 20,000 units.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: NAMA is funding them and that does not happen with their competitors who are outside of NAMA, but that is a separate issue.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On an item of information that is relevant to the question, I thought the Land Registry actually has on its map a designation for land relating to NAMA and that this is differentiated from other land.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dublin Homeless Network, Limerick and Clare Homeless Alliance, Cork Social Housing Forum (12 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I commend the organisations represented here today and the other organisations represented by the network. We see today that the official homelessness figures of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government are at their highest point ever, with 6,000 people, including almost 2,000 children, affected. To put this in context, the official figures from the Department in...