Results 21-27 of 27 for 5 million speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to subhead A3, there is a proposed increased to €356 million. How many units will that deliver by the end of this year? There is a table in the second briefing note relating to local authority capital expenditure. How many units has the €177 million indicated in the table delivered to date? How many units has the €107 million billed delivered to date? A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (9 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three questions relating to Pillar 5. Could Mr. McCarthy give us an update on the timeline for the publication of the vacant homes plan? Is there any time left for those of us who might like to make submissions or is the Department close to completion and publication? When the Housing Agency appeared before us a few weeks ago, one of the issues that arose was progressing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...which meters do or do not affect water consumption behaviour. Has the CER knowledge of that research? Mr. Jerry Grant said that due to having a leak alarm on individual meters, 7% of houses have a leak while 5% are using a third of all water supplied to households. Knowing what we now know, was €500 million for universal water metering an effective use of that resource or would...

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: A starting salary of €87,000 a year puts Deputies in the top 5% of earners in the State. It does not stop there. We receive an incredibly generous travel and accommodation allowance, which is unvouched and not independently set, of between €9,000 and €34,000, depending on one's distance from the Dáil. There are also excessively generous additional payments for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (18 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and Skills the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if he will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with the recommendation by a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in an abolition of fees for parents. [30433/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., and the actions and inactions of his Government. In his press conference yesterday the Minister made five key claims about the housing budget. The first claim is that the total spend on housing next year will be up 50% on 2016. On the face of it, and from the budget document, that appears to be true but figures provided to me by the former Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, suggest that the...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the lack of time but the unwillingness on the part of his Cabinet colleagues to take the kind of policy decisions required to provide long-term solutions to a broken private rented sector. Pillar 5 deals with utilising existing housing. Last week, as we are all aware, the Central Statistics Office revealed that there are 189,000 vacant units throughout the State. When the Housing...