Results 241-260 of 13,605 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- 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?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is the total budget?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is the support on site, visiting support or a mixture of the two?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: It happens quite a lot.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Do not be.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Chairman outline the schedule for Thursday?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Are we meeting with the County and City Management Association for a second time?