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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (19 Sep 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that he intends to have a grant scheme for OMCs, many of which will not have the capacity or ability to manage very complex procurement and project-management issues related to remediation works far more complex than currently arise, as in the case of defective blocks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of the Government, that we will definitely need a meeting in September. Moreover, although this is also an issue for the Minister rather than for the officials, the 12 September deadline is far too tight. It leaves a very short period and people will be on holidays for some of that. Given the breadth and scope of the NPF and the desire of many of us to put in detailed submissions, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., so from Mr. Gleeson's understanding, exactly where is the project at and what are the obstacles to it progressing? That is the first part of the question. The second is related to that. As far back as we raised this matter, the issue of the continuing high levels of leakage within the distribution systems of Dublin and the greater Dublin area continue to be a concern. If Uisce...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the information provided so far. I will go back to a couple of the questions we did not have time to deal with in the first round, one of which was on developer-provided infrastructure, DPI. To pick up where the Senator left off, funding of €68.5 million had been provided from 2021 to 2025 to start getting at least some of those housing schemes upgraded and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be that I misheard. Did Ms Attridge say that approximately 2,500 full-time equivalent staff are currently covered by the service level agreement, SLA, and so far approximately 1,000 have expressed an interest? Is that a fair summary?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
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Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister mentioned the first home scheme. On the capital funding for local authorities, namely CAS, the affordable housing fund and CREL, on the basis of what the Minister has seen so far, is he saying this will be the first year that what was allocated in the AEV and REV will be spent in full?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...busy and the officials work very hard but I have had an opportunity to read the 2021 submission to the Department and the letters and there is real alarm in the correspondence received as far back as October 2020. The idea that it would take until some point in 2023 for the review to commence is concerning. I am not the only person who thinks this. If the Minister were able to give us a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...amendments. My colleagues and I were responsible for many of those. The Bills Office was able to turn those amendments around at times when it was also processing the Finance Bill, the Social Welfare Bill and other legislation. It is appropriate that we acknowledge the office. To the long-suffering departmental staff, I want to say two things. I do not think we have ever been given as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their responses so far. Let us look specifically at head 5, new section 20A(1) opens with the words "In order to be eligible to be assessed". That gives the impression there is now two phases to the assessment. The first one is a residency assessment. If one makes it through the residency assessment, depending on which category, of which there are more than five...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...fine or custodial sentence. I think it is a sentence of up to six months and a fine of up to €10,000. This would be for each individual breach of this aspect of the Act. The problem is that as far as I know, it has never been used by a planning authority. What extra is being added here?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that what is in the sections of the Bill that my amendment is trying to alter will make things much worse. On this basis, the amendment as outlined is trying to remove the damaging sections, so far unjustified and unexplained on any evidence base by the Government, and at least allow us to continue with the system which, especially with respect to residential developments, is now working...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that its decision involves a point of law of exceptional public importance and that it is desirable in the public interest that an appeal should be taken to the Supreme Court. (7) Subsection (6) shall not apply to a determination of the Court in so far as it involves a question as to the validity of any law having regard to the provisions of the Constitution. (8) If an application is...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...arrived, is that I wish to see the lowest number of judicial reviews possible. I would like to see all our planning decisions being made within our planning authorities. I would also like to see far less legal contestation. Denying or attempting to deny people access to justice, however, which is a domestic, European and international legally enshrined right and obligation, is...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the Minister just outlined and the scales and means test are set in the wrong way, people who are trying to defend the public interest, public health and the environment could have access to far fewer resources than, for example, a corporation that could be involved in polluting activity that is negative to public health and the environment and that there would not be that fairness and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...what planning applications to grant, it is completely blind to housing need. It is blind to tenure, age, life cycle, disability and income. Therefore, increasingly the decisions made on grants are so far away from housing need that we end up with the wrong kinds of homes in the wrong place at the wrong price, which creates all sorts of difficulties and challenges. My amendment No. 895...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the thing we could have done this time around because 2030 is only around the corner. This is such an important thing to do. It is one of the easiest things to do with regard to climate. It is far less politically contentious. I am not going to look for a follow-up. I trust the Minister of State will read his note eloquently but this issue is not going away folks, and we need to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...both of planning and the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations in Larkfield House in Clondalkin is able to continue to proceed in this manner. The reason is partly because the law itself is far too weak and the burden of proof on the local authority is far too onerous. Also, our local authority building control sections, with maybe the one exception of Dublin city, simply do not have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the Companies Acts, where a director might have been a director of a separate legal entity but where there is clear consistency in terms of breaches of planning from one application to another. As far back as the 1970s the Law Reform Commission argued that there should actually be a legal mechanism to go after directors. I am not of the view that it is currently provided for but I could...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This scheme is good in principle but an absolute failure in practice. If the Minister wants to sell three drawdowns in a year and a half to his constituents as a success, far be it for me to get in his way. The Minister has had the report of the Housing Commission on the right to housing for almost a year. When will he publish it? More importantly, when will he act on it?