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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...2013. He made some changes - although they were not as strong as some of us would have liked - to the enforcement and regulation of the building process. There is nothing stopping either rogue apples or systemic problems in our system. One bad quarry, over a decade, can be responsible for the total number of damaged houses we have in County Donegal today. Whether it is a few bad apples...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...actually the same as what the State would give a local authority not only to build or to buy but also to manage and maintain social housing stock over the same period of time. We are not comparing apples and oranges. Therefore, from the very get go, the private sector is being given a better deal and a higher level of remuneration for the provision, management and maintenance of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of the New Zealand Electoral Commission. Its annual budget in a non-election year is equivalent to €14 million and in an election year, it is equivalent to €44 million. We could be comparing apples with oranges because they could cover many of the costs our local authorities cover in an election year. However €14 million in a non-election year is quite a lot of...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...this way of doing business. They claimed that it was good for jobs, tax revenues and public services. They are simply wrong. There is a huge human cost to the aggressive tax practices of companies such as Apple. The biggest losers are the developing world countries. In a recent report, Christian Aid has estimated that poor countries lose more than $160 billion in forgone tax revenue...