Results 1-14 of 14 for construction industry council speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...been achieved. The Attorney General went on to express some concern about the wording of the amendment because the phrase "housing growth target" was specific to the decision of Wicklow County Council and its housing strategy and is not necessarily commonly used. He went on to argue that the wording of the amendment may need to be changed. The concern I have is that we were given the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and in the context of all other aspects of plan-making, take real action to require that the issue of embodied carbon is at the centre of these plans. We mentioned the Irish Green Building Council and the event at which we all spoke. A number of us, including me, Deputy Duffy and others, are ambassadors for the Irish Green Building Council and are happy to be so. The council did two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...witnesses' expert views what is it that needs to happen now to see more of this in Ireland. I have some specific questions for anyone who wants to answer. Timber frame is not a modern method of construction. It is one of the things that often frustrates me that it has been around for many decades and yet only 25% of our new-build homes are using what is quite an outdated method of...

Report on Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the committee and assisted us greatly in grappling with this important issue. It is also important to acknowledge a number of other actors. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's construction sector working group, and its innovation subgroup, have led the way in many of the debates we are now having. Enterprise Ireland has been very positive in respect of some recent research...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for innocent homeowners. Minister nowhere mentioned were the equivalent fines or threats of imprisonment for the true perpetrators in this. The producers of these defective blocks, including giants of the Irish ... [construction] Industry. We have scaled every obstacle put in our way. But it appears the government has strung us along for months. Practically every suggestion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...be no longer moving towards affordability but just towards the market price, which was a problem previously. I think that is important to emphasise in the context of this conversation. Turning to the Construction Industry Federation, and this is a reflection and not in any way a criticism, given I agree in respect of the data underpinning the housing needs demands assessment, HNDA, Mr....

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...he should accept it so that it also is a matter that is on the Dáil record. As the Minister of State will be aware, the purpose of this register is to have a statutory register of competence for construction industry professionals. The history of such a register is long. It was first proposed by the Law Reform Commission in 1977, a time when there was a significant concern among...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... Again, it is not necessary with regard to whether HFA does or does not loan but, because it is involved in lending for residential property, would Mr. O'Leary have any observations in terms of construction inflation? What is his general read of where he thinks the construction industry market is currently at? Everybody on the committee is keen to canvas as many views on where people...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., even if building control had been taken to its absolute limit, which it was not in most cases with the possible exception of Priory Hall, and the building contractor, developer or other associated construction professionals had been found to be in breach of building controls, fined or even imprisoned – breaches of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations can carry custodial...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the additional cost to taxpayers arising from building practices in our public schools once again confirms not only the legacy of light-touch building control regulation and the underfunding of council building control departments, but also the need at every opportunity to strengthen our building control and compliance system. I want to give the legislation before us today a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the general election of last year, when we all had different propositions around how to deliver affordable purchase homes. The origin of this proposal lies in two documents that were developed by two industry lobby groups, Property Industry Ireland and Irish Institutional Property, which came and did a round of meetings with housing spokespeople between February and May 2020, after the...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...; - this scheme was not included in Fianna Fáil’s election manifesto or previously stated Fianna Fáil policy; - the origins of the scheme are two policy papers published by Irish Institutional Property and Property Industry Ireland in March and May 2020; - these proposals were based on a shared equity loan scheme in operation in England and Wales since 2013; - in 2015,...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...affordable cost-rental homes this year which, while welcome, are nowhere close to the thousands of affordable cost rental homes recommended to Government by the Housing Agency, ESRI, and the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. What we did get is a return of Fianna Fáil and the bad old days of the Celtic tiger in the form of an increase to the help-to-buy scheme. This has...

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., that is assuming those targets are met. I have always been very clear that the Rebuilding Ireland targets in 2016 and 2017 were met. There is a concern, particularly given the fact that the construction targets at the end of the second quarter of this year are only at 28%, that that target might not be met this year. It is a significant target, so we will have to wait and see. The...