Results 161-180 of 14,657 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The context of the question is the Minister's remark that he is considering increasing the proposed number of rapid-delivery units from 500 to 1,000 in the coming year. One of the concerns many of us had when the rapid builds were first announced related to cost. My party is not against them on principle. If they get families out of inadequate and cramped emergency and hotel accommodation...

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I agree with the Minister. Part of the difficulty in respect of the public debate around this is the fact that the original proposal was for prefabs, and some of the models that were presented to city and county councillors were prefabs and not the timber-frame rapid-build houses that we have seen. We want to see the maximum number of units both for long-term housing and...

Priority Questions: Irish Water (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost of the abolition of Irish Water and water charges. [11833/16]

Priority Questions: Irish Water (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. As he knows, in May, Irish Water produced a report, although it did not publish it but selectively leaked aspects of it to a number of newspapers, which estimated that the cost of the abolition of Irish Water would be in the region of €7 billion. I am interested to know if the Minister has seen its report or its figures, which are hugely different from the...

Priority Questions: Irish Water (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister's interpretation of Irish Water selectively leaking sections of a document none of us read is more than generous. If it wanted to have informed public debate, it could have published the report and let people form their own view. The problem for local authorities, until the creation of Irish Water, was not that local authorities were doing a bad job but that central...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that a majority of Deputies elected to the Thirty-second Dáil made clear pre-election pledges to end water charges; and calls on the Government to:— immediately abolish domestic water charges; — establish a public water and sanitation board to deliver water on the basis of need; and — set a date for a referendum to...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Please put him out of his misery.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Clearly more so than Deputy Dooley.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Now the Deputy is just making it up.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the river basin management plan, including if he will amend it to reflect the fact that the majority of those elected to the Dáil were elected on an anti-water charges platform and that the derogation under Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive makes no specific requirement for cost recovery...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 52. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why responsibility for delivering 80% of social housing, as outlined in Social Housing Strategy 2020, is being handed over to the private sector; and if he will review this policy. [11596/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated to spend on Traveller accommodation in 2016. [12026/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided to local authorities for Traveller specific accommodation, and the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported, by local authority, for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [11536/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied), which is investigating problems in concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo, will allow it to recommend financial assistance to families already forced to carry out remediation works to ensure the safety of the family home....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to amend the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied) which is investigating the problems in concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo, to allow it to investigate problems in concrete block work in publicly owned buildings such as council housing and schools; and if the terms...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of planning applications and of units included in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 that have been delayed due to delays in the planning process. [11346/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time the procurement and tendering process took for each of the social housing projects included in Social Housing 2020 that have reached construction phase. [11347/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for disability grants, mobility grants and adaptation grants, and the amount drawn down, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11537/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for cyclical maintenance of social housing stock and the amount drawn down, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided under the rental accommodation scheme, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11539/16]