Results 1-15 of 15 for destroyed speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...out of emergency accommodation into long term housing. Consistent increases in the overall homelessness numbers over the past five years despite regular announcements of plans and strategies have destroyed confidence in the ability of the political system to deliver. Those are not my words. Those are the Minister's words in 2018. It is not the case that more than 40% of people in...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Government of Israel. Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, lie dead. As other Members have mentioned, vital public infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, have been destroyed. Vital supplies of food and medicine are running low and vital public services such as water and electricity have been shut off. On top of the sense of horror and outrage one feels...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...;rta Mór could and should be treated with the same degree of protection and care, under the legislation, as official burial grounds. With respect to amendment No. 229, it seeks to delete the phrase "destroying the object" from the definition of "dispose" on page 103 of the Bill. The idea of the amendment is that there should not be any provision for destroying objects....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...they should not be disposed of appropriately. My worry is how the Minister of State can satisfy me that this provision covers the type of case that he outlined but may not be abused or misused to destroy an archaeological object that is not a threat to public health, but could be destroyed for other reasons, including reasons that run contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: So, in all cases where an object is either disposed of or destroyed, a licence will have to be secured, setting out the reasons and the manner in which it will be disposed of or destroyed or both? Yes. A licence from the National Museum will be required. I hope that gives some assurance.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of the Bill. While structures or sites are meant by "relevant thing" everywhere else in the Bill, a "relevant thing" in section 173 means equipment, tools, machinery and vehicles used to damage or destroy structures or sites in an offence under the Bill. Again, our reading may be incorrect and if so, I ask the Minister of State to correct us but I wanted to bring this to his attention. ...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...between criticism of the unacceptable actions of a few in recent months with the defence of the right to protest. The appalling scenes in Sandwith Street, where people's personal belongings were destroyed and their homes set on fire, were a turning point. The overwhelming majority of people in this country, even people who may not agree with some of the sentiments we express here today...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Government policy is destroying the housing market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and hedgerows that run through it. A 3D master plan indicates whether or not they are being protected. When elected members got that plan and saw that a huge part of the historic esker would be destroyed, we forced the reconfiguration of the plan. That benefits everyone. The more of that we can work in, the better. It is not either-or; the two go hand in hand.

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...today the central problem is in fact large developers instigating very expensive strategic litigations against public participation against groups with very limited resources to try to, in essence, destroy the good work such groups are trying to do in the courts. I will evidence some of that. While we support the motion, I urge the Minister of State to take back to his colleagues the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...from the insight and suffering over long years of those who know what it means to live in these homes. The new Scheme will not work without these amendments. By ignoring us again today, you are wasting more money, destroying more lives. While we wait on the I[ndustry] S[tandard] 465 review which we need to include all deleterious materials scientifically proven to be problematic, along...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Saturday, thousands of people joined demonstrations in Donegal and Mayo. They called on the Government to deliver a 100% redress scheme for those whose homes have been, and are being, destroyed by defective blocks containing mica and pyrite. This issue, as the Minister knows, also affects homeowners in County Clare. Under the existing scheme, some homeowners are having to pay the cost...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (10 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...on the policy of Dublin City Council and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive of removing tents being used by persons sleeping rough in Dublin City and when removing these tents to remove and destroy the person belongings of the persons sleeping rough; and if he will request Dublin City Council to discontinue this practice. [6511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (22 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...if he will meet with a cross-party delegation from the Inishowen Municipal District of Donegal County Council to discuss Government funding for the rebuilding of Swan Park, Buncrana, County Donegal destroyed by the August 2017 floods along with the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Minister of State for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the islands. [13291/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...individuals to account within the legal, judicial and criminal processes - whether they be politicians or planners - who were involved in corrupt, inappropriate or negligent planning decisions that destroyed the lives not just of individuals but whole communities. We have a very poor track record in that respect. We set up tribunals which meet for lengthy periods of time. They make...