Results 1-20 of 27 for 5 million speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy O'Callaghan has made a very good point about the Chivers site because, from memory, the developer doubled the price of the site from €5 million to €10 million. If the councillors had been able to apply an affordable housing zoning condition to the land, that could not have happened and that site could be used in a more useful way. However, it also misses the point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...but there are many other categories, which are listed. It is important to state that the Bill was tabled in 2020 and things have changed since then. For example, in Dublin, homeless HAP, which is 50% above the base rate, has changed. At one point, it was available four weeks before notice of termination, then eight weeks, and it is now available 12 weeks in advance of such a notice....

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the Government has given up on the idea of councils and approved housing bodies delivering the volume of homes required. The Minister talked about increasing the renter's tax credit, but there is only €250 extra. That will be swallowed up by rent increases, both inside and outside the rent pressure zones, and ultimately, it will be paid to the landlord. As for the landlord's tax...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement and briefing paper. I have some very specific questions on the Estimates. Perhaps we will take them in turn. Page 5 of the briefing document tells us that the voted capital allocation for housing was €2.46 billion. We know that up to the end of the third quarter, approximately €990 million was spent, leaving €1.46 billion...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...budget 2023 for greater progress, there was deep disappointment. One of the small facts that was missed in much of the budget debate is that the Government’s own contribution to funding for defects has only been increased by €5 million and there is, as I said, no scheme for others. On top of that, the Government has taken an eminently sensible idea and is making an absolute...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...being missed for the third year in a row. One of the first things we need to hear from the Minister at some point is how much of this year's budget he will not spend. We know there is a €240 million carryover from capital spending from last year to this year, but we are only allowed to carry over 10%, so what is the total underspend that the Minister was not able to deliver this...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., of a very low target of 700. Clearly, it will be a challenge to even meet the 700 by year's end. Some 700 is nowhere near enough. With regard to the affordable purchase side, the target is 450 to 500 and none have yet been purchased. Some are close, but they are in the tens, not in the hundreds. That is why this motion centres around the need for a minimum of 20,000 social,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: First, with regard to the fines, my calculations are that, as of November of this year, they will be €16.1 million. We owed €10.5 million as of October last year and, as has been said, it is €2.7 million or €2.8 million every six months, so the total amount is €16.1 million. It would be good if that could be confirmed either at the meeting or afterwards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through some pretty straightforward questions. Mr. Ó Coigligh said there would be ongoing operational costs, separate to the one-off cost of €5 million. I presume those are additional costs for both Ervia and Irish Water. Will he put a figure on what that cost will be annually, separate to the €5 million?

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the rental crisis continues to spiral out of control; — rents across the State have increased by 2.5 per cent in the last 12 months; — rents in the commuter belt counties increased by 5 per cent during the same period; — rents in Leitrim, Longford, Carlow, Kildare and Limerick have increased by 11 per cent,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... It concludes that the impact of shared equity loans on house price inflation in London, where demand is highest, is 6%. Across England and Wales overall, the rate of inflation is between 3% and 5%. While the study found that while the shared equity loan scheme in Britain increased supply, it also explicitly states that the resulting increased supply was provided in the wrong areas....

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to state that because of the failure of the State to adequately transpose EU environmental directives and ensure adequate public participation in the planning process, it is currently being fined €15,000 a day. The fines to date are somewhere in the region of €10 million. Even if we pass the Bill today and it is signed into law by the President at the weekend, those fines...

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the opportunity speak about what is essentially a crisis in the arts, culture and entertainment industries. The Minister is correct that more than 35,000 people are employed across a range of professions. While much of this debate has focused on the front-of-house artists and performers, and rightly so, there is a panoply of people employed in these sectors, including producers,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Rates (11 Dec 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...payment for the two local authorities? To put this in context, if one looks at Dublin City Council, for example, it has lost almost half of what would have been the compensation fund of €14 million previously only to get €5 million now. South Dublin County Council is losing two thirds of what it had received. It is losing €4 million and it will only get €2...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if €5 million will be invested to fund the start-up, staffing, programme and infrastructural development for a regional rehabilitation centre for an organisation (details supplied). [43516/19]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister to tell us in plain English what the €13 million re-profiling means. The document does not make clear what exact areas are being cut from and what will be delayed until the following year as a result. While I welcome the additional funding for pyrite works, provision does not seem to have been made for additional funding for pyrite and mica works in counties...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Deputy Darragh O'Brien rightly referred. Our view is that the LPT should be scrapped. We have argued strongly that it should be phased out over three years. The cost of doing so would be €155 million annually. I am sure the Minister of State will be delighted to know that we have set out, by means of parliamentary questions, exactly from where that revenue could obtained. We...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...unit is to streamline Government communications, to co-ordinate, to train and to promote best practice. How much of the time of the 14 members of this unit is dedicated to that? How much of the €5 million budget is dedicated to those specific tasks? The only bit of work reported in the public domain which relates to that part of the function, which the Taoiseach says is integral,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the record is really poor. I understand the delays with approval, tendering and procurement but last year, for example, the Department had to come back to the Oireachtas looking for an extra €100 million because, by and large, local authorities were exceeding their general needs social housing targets yet we see that last year, they had the biggest underspend in Traveller...