Results 361-380 of 13,605 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is an amendment missing from the groupings - amendment No. 7.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: For clarity, when the Minister said that no water bills will be issued during this period, he was referring to charges that would have otherwise been charged during this period. Irish Water will continue to issue bills during this period for any arrears for the period before 1 July. Is he saying no bills either for new charges or arrears will be issued? I assume that after we go through...

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.

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Consider the situation where a parent is at home one evening and receives a telephone call to say that their 17 year old son has been arrested while travelling abroad. He was exercising his right to assembly by attending a peaceful demonstration which was then attacked by state forces and, with a group of almost 400 people, fled in to a local mosque to seek shelter. We know this because...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputies know, the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse. Some 130,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists, many waiting on average ten years before they have the chance of a permanent home. Over 6,000 people are sleeping in emergency accommodation tonight, as the Minister knows, over 2,000 of whom are children. These figures do not include the large...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: She could have the three minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance for details of the treatment of the debt portion of the Irish Water capital programme, for each of the years 2015 to 2021, in terms of how it impacts on the State's debt to gap ratio, and the calculation of the expenditure benchmark and fiscal space available to the Government in each of those years. [20246/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest estimated final expenditure for each of the three European Globalisation Adjustment Fund programmes currently in operation, in tabular form. [20247/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown for each of the years 2015 to 2021, of the Irish Water capital programme funding, broken down by equity and debt portions in nominal and percentage terms. [20246/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the spirit of amendments Nos. 8 and 9 and will explain my reason for so doing. As everybody is aware, the purpose of the Bill is to suspend the payment ofwater charges for nine months. The purpose of the suspension is to allow a so-called independent commission to consider the funding of domestic water services, refer its recommendations to an Oireachtas committee which will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (12 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date on the e-health strategy for Ireland; the actions that have been taken to date to bring this strategy in line with the European Union e-health action plan 2012-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20920/16]