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Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened to the Minister for housing earlier and if ever there was an example of a Minister out of touch with the lived realities of homeowners and tenants impacted by defective concrete blocks and building materials, that was it. My God, he clearly has no understanding of the reality that people who represent these counties are articulating today. Given that it has been 15 long years...

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, Sinn Féin will be supporting this legislation. I thank the officials from his Department for the very detailed briefing they provided to committee members on both the Bill and wider issues around AHB strategy and reform. It is a single-sentence Bill, so there is not an awful lot to discuss in terms of its explicit content. However, given that it is related to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the lifetime of the Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: And it is still going to miss its target. That is brilliant.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They do under this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: And from the Housing Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I must apologise as we have Housing Finance Agency legislation at 3.50 p.m. so some of us will have pop out to deal with that in the Chamber and then come back in. To provide some context, the original idea for this session when we agreed it before the summer recess was that in anticipation of the transfer of responsibility for the Property Services Regulatory Authority and the Multi-Unit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The way we structure these committees means that they do not lend themselves to the detail. I only have two and a half minutes so could-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I am out of time. I will get to Mr. Doran in the next round, if that is okay. My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Doran might give us a brief update on what is happening with the funding drawdown for the interim fire safety scheme. That would be a good start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: So that committee members are clear, it is two years after this scheme opened and Mr. Doran still has not been able to draw down any money, nor have the other pathfinder projects in terms of remediation works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No remediation work has taken place as of yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Doran have an estimated start date for remediation in his own apartment block?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is for urgent or emergency fire safety works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the benefit of the committee, could Mr. Doran tell us the number of apartments in his development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I am out of time. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise. We have the Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025 before the Dáil, so we are trying to be in two places at once. At the beginning of the meeting, I recommended that the committee would write to the Minister for justice to do exactly as Deputy McAuliffe said to expedite the enabling legislation. It needs be done as a matter of urgency. For fear of asking questions...