Results 1-16 of 16 for construction industry council speaker:Tommy Broughan

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...a housing crisis in Dublin at the time and, despite the creation of the three new towns of Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown, that crisis has continued in one form or another up to today. Even when the level of housing construction high at some points in the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, there were still lengthy housing lists and people in homeless accommodation. Of course, since the...

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...on Budgetary Oversight, which was attended by important stakeholders such as Social Justice Ireland, the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, the Construction Industry Federation, CIF and IBEC. Based on the research of Social Justice Ireland and NERI, I made the point that throughout our history - Deputy Howlin spoke this morning about the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...teaches in London named Dr. Mariana Mazzucato? She wrote a famous book called The Entrepreneurial State. She showed how almost all the major entrepreneurial decisions in the development of the IT industry and electronics generally, including all the elements of the web, were made by the state and university sectors rather than private industry. In fact, private enterprises like Facebook...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...that has been presented is, at best, a type of holding exercise. It is a sadly familiar budget and is principally for the elites of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil and their supporters in the property industry. While the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, is efficiently carrying out the necessary refinancing of our national debt this year and into 2019, the sheer burden of the...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...of Fine Gael and its Fianna Fáil predecessors. That is the key critique of the Bill. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government spoke yesterday at the launch of the report, The Future of Council Housing: An analysis of the financial sustainability of local authority provided social housing, by Professor Michelle Norris and former Senator, Dr. Aideen Hayden, which makes...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

Tommy Broughan: There are deficiencies. We have a dysfunctional construction industry and market. Ten of thousands of people are effectively homeless, yet the council maintains we are operating at close to potential. That is nonsense.

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: ...into effect by the Minister in the coming weeks are not being addressed in the Bill or elsewhere. There seems to be a complete determination by the State and its agencies not to take responsibility for the building industry and not to make it responsible to the State for the work it does in spite of the huge commitments made by young families. In moving to the content of the Bill, I wish...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Tommy Broughan: ...of an NHS-type system for the State throughout its history. I welcome the critically needed additional €20 million for community mental health services. The stimulants for the building trades and construction industry from the new tax credit for home renovations, the tax exemption for long-term unemployed starting a business and the further development of the strategic investment...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The social housing programme has collapsed in most constituencies, including mine. Dublin City Council figures show that last year, 16,600 families and individuals were on its housing waiting list, with 7,538 on the transfer list. A total of 32% of applicants were waiting more than five years, with 2,544 waiting more than seven years. I describe these figures as deeply damaging to the...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The social housing programme has collapsed in most constituencies, including mine. Dublin City Council figures show that last year, 16,600 families and individuals were on its housing waiting list, with 7,538 on the transfer list. A total of 32% of applicants were waiting more than five years, with 2,544 waiting more than seven years. I describe these figures as deeply damaging to the...

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...Labour Party colleagues to say a few words. I welcomed the publication of the report of the pyrite panel last June. Astonishingly, this report was the first comprehensive response to the worst construction disaster to occur since the foundation of the State and which may have affected tens of thousands of home owners in north and west Dublin and across the mid-Leinster region. I have...

Planning and Construction Investigation (6 May 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...containing too high levels of pyrite were used in a number of estates in the North Fringe, including Clongriffin, the Coast and elsewhere in the north Dublin and Leinster regions. Sources in the construction industry have informed me that at least 60,000 residential units built during the property bubble in 2001-02 may be infected by this disastrous pyrite infill at a replacement cost of...

Water Pollution. (5 Jun 2008)

Tommy Broughan: ...estate in west Dublin and indicated that a significant number of developers had contacted the suppliers, Homebond, regarding their fears about the matter. Lately, I have heard allegations from the construction industry that at least 60,000 residential units built during 2001-2002 may be infected by the disastrous pyrite infill. Equally alarmingly, there are continuing allegations that a...

Construction Industry. (19 Dec 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ...builders from a quarry located near Ballycoolin in Dublin 15 which is owned by the Irish Asphalt division of the Lagan Group. In my view and that of my constituents, the response of the Dublin City Council manager, the Fingal County Council manager and the Ministers for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to this crisis in the...

Building Control Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Mar 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ...to the clear implication that implementation of building controls had been grossly deficient since they were introduced in 1976. The group sought to bring rules, law and order to this part of the construction industry, especially in respect of the qualifications of professional people and the new energy directive on household buildings. I commend the Minister on bringing forward the Bill...

Corrib Gas Field: Statements. (4 Oct 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ...Texaco and other representatives of big oil companies to leave the Norwegian oil and gas fields alone until "we know what you know". When Norwegian engineers and scientists had learned what the oil industry knew, the Norwegian Government permitted exploration to proceed on terms which firstly benefited the Norwegian nation and its descendants. The Minister will reply that only two...