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Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...for the establishment of the approved housing bodies regulatory authority. This is long overdue. We have been requesting this for many years. I recall asking the Governments of former taoisigh, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny, to do something like this for many years. We thought it was necessary because of the significant expenditure. I, like the Minister, am a former member...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...fringe a strategic development zone to ensure some basic level of consultation with residents and citizens of Dublin Bay North. I specifically remember doing so with a former Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen, and a former Minister, Mr. John Gormley. On my own proposal as a Dublin city councillor in 2005, then city manager Mr. John Fitzgerald finally established the north fringe forum, which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance (3 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...similar to 2009, however? We had two budgets that year during the crash. The former Deputy and Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, along with the former Deputy and then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, had to come into the Dáil twice. Surely we will need an emergency Brexit budget now as well. The Minister has been going back and forth on some of the elements of what spending...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...the country have been highlighted in the media. From 2007, I continuously raised in this Chamber the issue of pyrite damage to homes and estates. However, the former taoisigh, Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, and the former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, refused to take responsibility for often distraught residents. As building activity ramps up...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...pension fund which was our wealth fund. We were not in the league of the Norwegians or the Saudi Arabians, but we had a significant wealth fund which the Minister's predecessor and former Deputy Brian Cowen totally got rid of, diminished and blew away. The NTMA is holding a net €14 billion, but it has to engage in significant refinancing in 2018 and 2019. As the Minister's...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...the importance of local Oireachtas representation invigilating those matters and that the best method to do so would be in one constituency to ensure better accountability for the development of the region. Deputy Cowen has submitted an amendment asking that Dublin Bay North and Dublin Bay South go back to being called Dublin North East and Dublin South East. Dublin North-East had been...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...Party refer to the necessity for more carbon taxes. Of course he was in government previously. He propped up two Fianna Fáil taoisigh for a lengthy period – I am referring to Mr. Ahern and Mr. Cowen. During that time we had a major energy poverty problem but we did not see it being addressed then. Yet he is calling for new impositions in terms of the carbon taxation. Such...

Other Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I understand Deputy Cowen is taking Question No. 6.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As Deputy Cowen is not yet present, we will move to Question No. 2 and come back to No. 1.

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...history was the regulatory capture of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator with the acquiescence of leading Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians, including former Taoisigh, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen and Deputy Enda Kenny, and particularly in the recent scandal, the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan. The distinguished journalist Fintan O'Toole recalled yesterday how...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...a word to say today in his introductory speech on the Government about our infrastructure. I was no admirer of the Deputies Kenny and Noonan Administrations which carried on the programmes of the former Deputy Cowen and also the late Deputy Lenihan of needless steep cuts and austerity which seriously damaged many of our people. It was laughable yesterday listening to journalists and some...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: .... The Minister mentioned a number of sites in my constituency of Dublin Bay North. For years we asked the Government of which the Minister was a part, and the Government of which Deputy Cowen's party was a constituent part, for funding to build ordinary bricks and mortar houses on those sites but they would not give us the money. That is the reality. The production of homes by the...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Tommy Broughan: ...people in the 1980s, there was a housing crisis. We never had enough homes in the social housing area. I noticed how closely the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil parties are working on this issue. Deputy Cowen has said that unless the Minister introduces such and such into "Rebuilding Ireland" in time for the budget, this plan will not come into effect because we will all be out...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: ...line is that nothing changed after the 2011 election when the new Taoiseach and his Minister for Finance chose to steadfastly persist with the policies of the two previous Taoisigh, Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, and the former Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan. Deputy Catherine Murphy and her valiant staff have done Irish people an enormous favour over the past year in doggedly...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the very thoughtful comments of Deputy Cowen. I commend Deputy Catherine Murphy for proposing this amendment which probably should have been proposed in another section, section 4 perhaps, because it is a fundamental aspect of the costing for Irish Water and of the future income and expenditure of local authorities. I refer to new developments in the constituency I am proud to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: ...and tired of the austerity policies put in place by this Government, which I could never support, and that which preceded since 2010. They want this matter over and done with. I support Deputy Cowen in his efforts to have section 3 deleted from the Bill. The Bill with which we have been presented is basically a political public relations, PR, exercise. It is an attempt to remove this...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: ...saving in Irish borrowings was a comparison saving against a theoretical and totally impossible promissory notes payment schedule. The Irish Government was faced with finding €9.3 billion to pay the Cowen-Lenihan deferred schedule of 2012-14, which was an impossible and totally ludicrous commitment. Even though the promissory note arrangement was a scheme devised by and repaid to...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: ...are not free at last. We are not free and will never be free while this Government endures and while it continues with the appalling and dreadful austerity which began in September 2008 under the Cowen-led Government and continues to this day. Indeed, having been a satrap State for the past three years, we are being permitted to enter a new decade as a dependent economy, firmly under...

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

Tommy Broughan: .... It is a case of first come, first served. It now awaits the Minister, Deputy Hogan, to sign the regulation. When will he sign that regulation? Under the Fianna Fáil regime led by Ahern and Cowen, the failure of local authorities to provide social housing meant a massive growth in the private rental sector. In the past five years since 2007, almost €3 billion has been...

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

Tommy Broughan: .... It is a case of first come, first served. It now awaits the Minister, Deputy Hogan, to sign the regulation. When will he sign that regulation? Under the Fianna Fáil regime led by Ahern and Cowen, the failure of local authorities to provide social housing meant a massive growth in the private rental sector. In the past five years since 2007, almost €3 billion has been...