Results 1-20 of 21 for sligo speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... If we are not clear, other folks will be equally unclear. I ask the Minister of State to explain what it is we are getting with this section of the Bill. Could it cover Clondalkin, Adamstown, Sligo or Athlone? I am trying to understand the range and scope of the provision.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. My point still stands, however. If the local area plan of the Minister of State’s party colleagues and my party colleagues in Sligo is at risk of collapsing because of a lack of alignment between the transitional mechanisms, the enactment of the new sections and the production of a new plan, they would like to know that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us take Donegal and Sligo, for example. If their plans are coming to an end and they have reviews under way but those reviews are not going to be completed before the enactment of the relevant sections of the new Bill, those plans will be extended. I have two questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...forget a piece of documentation, I am not refused, although my application might go back to the bottom of the pile and I have to resubmit. Can Mr. Ó Coigligh clarify that? With regard to Clare, Limerick, Sligo and other counties that hope to enter, Dr. Cleary highlighted two significant issues. One is whether there are qualified professionals to do some of the work. The second...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...would have a system where a renter who is in Dublin has a 2% cap and a renter somewhere else in the city or in the State can have no cap whatsoever and have rent increases of 20% or 50% - in some cases in Sligo recently, we saw 100% rent increases - is inherently unjust and unfair. We made the point to the Minister at the time and he simply refused to listen. In fact, we went one step...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...working on the new regulations for the enhanced scheme, which we will deal with when it comes forward, right now families desperately need emergency intervention in Donegal, Mayo, Clare, Tipperary, Sligo and elsewhere. While I know it is not the Minister of State's Department, I implore him to listen to the three Deputies here, and go back to the line Minister responsible and urge him to...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the legislation was debated on Second Stage, which is highly irregular, and have been given just two hours today to deal with 160 amendments, 80 of which were drafted by homeowners from Donegal, Mayo, Clare, Sligo and other affected counties. Many of them are in the Gallery. A total of 71 amendments have been ruled out of order. That is obviously because many aspects of the Bill have...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome homeowners from Clare, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal, who are in the Gallery today. I commend all of them, and all affected homeowners, many of whom have been campaigning for a decade. In particular, I commend them on the incredibly intense level of campaigning over the past 12 months, on the streets and on social media, and their engagement with the Minister and his...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: First Stage (17 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...but they had one weakness: enforcement was to rely on the planning system and standard planning enforcement through the courts. Figures released to me by a variety of local authorities in Dublin, Sligo, Cork and Galway show that the level of enforcement of and compliance with the regulations is exceptionally low. According to media outlets this week, in every county in the State the...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...moment. For example, there is nothing in any aspect of building control regulation enforcement that would today prevent more defective blocks from emerging, such as we have in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary and Clare. The central problem, however, is the bad reputation of a small but significant section of the construction industry, which we all know about, and the fact...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Breach of Building Regulations) Bill 2022: First Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...are affected by Celtic tiger-era latent defects and by defective building materials. As we speak, there are thousands of families with properties crumbling around them in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Limerick and Clare. Families in Clare still do not have certainty as to whether they will be included in the current defective block redress scheme, inadequate and all as the scheme is....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (15 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that there will be in budget 2022, announced in October, a scheme that will provide genuine redress for the homeowners affected by Celtic tiger defects? Thousands of people, from Donegal, Mayo, Sligo and elsewhere, rightly marched on the streets in Dublin recently, demanding 100% redress for those affected by defective blocks. They have my full support. The same principle must apply...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was very proud to stand today in full support of the people of Donegal, Sligo, Mayo and Clare, calling for justice. They had many supporters here in Dublin who are also living in defective Celtic tiger-era apartments. Many speakers have rightly noted that these families have been living with defective blocks for eight long years. The expert panel on mica identified 2013 as the date...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for landlords to keep pushing the rents up. Dublin rents are flatlining, according to Daft and the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, but rents in other urban centres are increasing. In Cork, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, the rate is between 3% and 5%. The more money put into rental subsidy, the more rent goes up. I am not arguing against the increase but I would always have been of the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (22 Jan 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... All rent reviews should be applicable. Why will tenants in rent pressure zones get this added protection but tenants outside rent pressure zones, particularly in areas, whether Limerick, Waterford or Sligo town, that are seeing very significant increases, will not get any protection from this at all? That does not make any sense. That is something the Minister could deal with by way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...just over half of the total number of tenancies. Some places are not covered by the rent pressure zones, RPZs, but it can be seen from today's report that places such as Limerick, Waterford and Sligo town are all experiencing unsustainable rent increases. What is the Minister going to do for people in those places? How is he going to respond? In terms of pillar four, affordable...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...-wide would be unconstitutional. It can only be unconstitutional if the measure was arbitrary and disproportionate. The RTB's own rent index for the fourth quarter of last year showed that in Sligo, which is not in the rent pressure zones, the annual increase in rent was 29%. Other areas that are not deemed to be rent pressure zones include Limerick, where the increase was 10%,...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Instead, as in so many areas, the Government did nothing. What happened? The student rent shakedown spread to Galway. If the Government continues to refuse to act, it will spread to Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford and elsewhere. The solution is very simple. The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 should be...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 29% in Sligo.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 117. To ask the Taoiseach the full costs of the Project Ireland 2040 launch in County Sligo on 16 February 2018; and the costs associated with web design, document design, media consulting and other costs associated with the event and its preparation. [9057/18]