Results 1-20 of 64 for data protection speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of planning permissions judicial review processes that has fed into the drafting. If there is, it should be published. I do not mean legal advice but, rather, actual empirical analysis. The only data we have is from the Office of the Planning Regulator. That office publishes a really helpful report each year detailing the total number of applications, the fact the overwhelming majority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of Irish folks beyond what was predicted in 2016. We have an increase in inward migration, again, driven by economic growth with people coming through work visa programmes and the international protection system. We also have a very unusual event in the war in Ukraine and a significant number of people are being given temporary protection. There must surely be a mechanism, if, within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Future of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...enterprise, because that will be the key to its success or failure. An issue that came up regularly when dealing with the planning legislation and doing the pre-legislative scrutiny of the marine protected areas legislation was that of co-design. There are all sorts of challenges to ensuring that as we accelerate the delivery of renewable offshore energy, which almost everybody in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion (10 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...question of a statistic because so much of our debate within this committee and in the Oireachtas on the state of the private rental sector over the last years has been influenced by the available data at the time and the RTB registration and notice of termination data were key. On top of that we were also looking at the age profile of certain cohorts of single-property landlords, we were...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to update on progress to the consultation with the Data Protection Commissioner about issuing a direction under section 8 of the Road Safety Act 2006 to allow for the flow of collision reports. [35278/23]

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...point to the Minister at the time and he simply refused to listen. In fact, we went one step further and said that if we create RPZs and then have areas immediately surrounding them that do not have those protections, as is the case in Carrigaline or Clogherhead, that will create a perverse incentive for landlords to increase rents above what would have been normally permissible for fear...

Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...debate in the Oireachtas over the challenges for those renters who live in substandard and, at times, outright dangerous rented properties, but also more generally the lack of an adequate regime to protect both renters and good landlords from rogue operators in the State. In the immediate aftermath of the documentary, I tabled a Private Member's motion. We had a very full and frank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...if that section of the Bill ends up being too vague or too broad? Head 13 deals with climate adaptation. It is important that the climate-related elements of the Bill, particularly when it comes to protecting and restoring marine diversity are as strong as possible. I ask Ms Uí Bhroin for her observations on that. I can cluster enforcement and architecture together. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final supplementary question on that. That is fine, except if this was the case we would not need marine protected areas because that could possibly look after itself. I am not convinced by that. Would Wind Energy Ireland and its members fully support one of the suggestions by Professor Tasman Crowe that there clearly needs to be a prioritisation of the speedy implementation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of very brief observations which the witnesses are free to comment on in their concluding remarks. We have had lots of conversations about data and taking a data-led approach. The big question, of course, is what we do when there is no data. Do we apply the precautionary principle or do we make sure the absence of data does not get in the way of activity X, Y or Z? That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...said already because it is a very important issue, particularly in those areas which have been previously designated but not necessarily properly maintained. Much of this comes down to the size of the data. We all know that our database is pretty weak. That is no criticism of anybody from the Department, but relates to the full extent of what we are trying to designate and protect. Is...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...accommodation crisis is forcing some students out of third-level education; — the Traveller Community, migrants, people with disabilities and older people continue to experience discrimination in the housing system; — those seeking international protection continue to live in inadequate accommodation, while thousands of people granted asylum are unable to find a pathway out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if current and future residents in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service are included in the data informing the housing needs demand assessment both for the State-wide targets and the local authority specific targets; and if so, the way in which this data in included. [57331/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...prices are at historic highs and rising. I heard one of the Minister's ministerial colleagues claim yesterday that house prices were falling. I again thought I was in a parallel universe because no data anywhere show house prices are falling. The rate of increase might be slowing, in particular in Dublin, but in the midlands and western seaboard counties, on the basis of the most recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...which gave them their certificate, that would do away with the need for any further inspections. The idea that inspections happen after the tenants move in has always been ludicrous. The value of that system is that it would protect good landlords. We have to be honest. We talk about problem tenants and that is fine - I live in the real world and know that is an issue - however, so are...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the ability of a landlord to terminate a tenancy with no grounds at the end of a Part 4 tenancy. This is something that most of us who know the legislation would welcome. However, the most recent data I have from the RTB, which I received last week, make it clear that, of all the notices to quit issued since the end of 2019, only 3% were on section 34(b) grounds, that is, a notice to...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support both these amendments and I will add one additional point. We still have some anomalies because rent pressure zones are calculated on the basis of local electoral areas, LEAs, and data provided to the Minister by the Residential Tenancies Board. In a certain number of locations, such as Cork city and county, half an LEA is subject to very substantial rent increases and the other...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...take-home pay of either €4,500 outside Dublin or over €6,000 in Dublin in order for that average rent to be affordable for a household. That is just out of this world. Looking at the most recent RTB data, including existing and new tenancies, the picture is not much better. We are still seeing State-wide averages of €1,300 and in Dublin averages of €1,800. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...introduced for the maritime area, especially given the scale of offshore renewable wind energy we need, it would be better if offshore planning and wind provision were done in parallel with marine protected areas. We will have a significant time lag and I was hoping Mr. Cronin could be more specific in terms of the timeframes for the legislation. Some of it is beyond his control and is...