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Eoin Ó Broin

politics

Calls for wider review into An Bord Pleanála following allegations

A number of allegations have been published about the board in recent weeks relating to its deputy chairman Paul Hyde
  • Cónal Thomas
  • May 20, 2022
Tax

Vacant property tax in doubt as Revenue reports fewer empty homes than expected

Analysis by Revenue revealed that levels of vacancy ‘are low across all counties’, leading the Minister for Finance to assess merits and likely impact of introducing such a tax
  • Michael Brennan
  • May 15, 2022

After a 15-year wait, is electoral reform finally on the cards?

The new Electoral Reform Bill constitutes the largest overhaul of Ireland’s electoral system in decades. But will it achieve its goal of strengthening Irish democracy?
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 10, 2022

Standard design brought in to speed up delivery of social housing

Councils given template layouts to expedite process, though critics say other approval hurdles also need to be removed
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 31, 2022

Builders’ register inspectors will have power to enter sites and search homes

The first ever legally required register of building contractors aims to weed out rogue operators and prevent faulty builds
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 23, 2022

Developers lodged high numbers of SHD applications just before fast-track planning scheme expired

Between October and December 2021, a total of 65 pre-applications were made to An Bord Pleanála, compared to 33 in the same three-month period of 2020
  • Killian Woods
  • January 16, 2022

How Ireland Inc is changing tack as Sinn Féin’s path to power opens up

Lobbyists for commercial interests which might have avoided contact with the party in the past are now pursuing it, anticipating it playing a lead role in the next government
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 21, 2021

Defects: Ó Broin shines a light on the fallout of Celtic Tiger Ireland’s housing follies

The Sinn Féin spokesman on housing focuses on the misery caused to ordinary home owners by light-touch regulation and rogue developers during the free-wheeling boomtime years
  • Andrew Lynch
  • September 11, 2021

Eoin Ó Broin challenges exemption that could lose government ‘10,000 affordable homes’

Sinn Féin publishes bill that would roll back exemption for developers that removed the necessity for them to deliver affordable homes on private land
  • Killian Woods
  • September 6, 2021

John Walsh: Beware of SF’s siren song of seductive promises, and look at its record instead

If Sinn Féin gets into power and attempts to implement many of its stated policies, it will only be a matter of time before the country faces another day of reckoning
  • John Walsh
  • June 27, 2021

Department of Housing officials warned shared equity scheme would hike up house prices

The comments, contained in internal documents, are likely to increase the pressure on Darragh O'Brien, the Housing Minister
  • Killian Woods
  • June 27, 2021

Analysis: Ó Broin challenges Ryan over state funding of homes bought by cuckoo funds

The Green Party leader did not take the Sinn Féin housing spokesman’s bait but there will be further questions if housing crisis measures do not work
  • Michael Brennan
  • May 25, 2021

Matt Cooper: Falling house of cards could take this government with it

The housing crisis hasn’t gone away, you know. It was only a matter of time until the fund-warped development model came back to bite those currently in power
  • Matt Cooper
  • May 9, 2021

Over 75% of new social homes are bought or leased from builders

Building of public housing by local authorities has dwindled to nearly non-existent levels in our biggest cities, official figures show
  • Killian Woods
  • April 4, 2021

Development firm lobbies TDs over rezoning 225 acres near Citywest Hotel

Tetrarch Capital hopes to secure one of the largest land rezonings in Dublin in years for a major housing development
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 21, 2021

Analysis: How Sinn Féin will seek to undermine LDA launch with its own unofficial website

‘Non-partisan’ site will be modelled on Nama Wine Lake project which gained a considerable following and led to questions in the Dáil
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 17, 2021

Eoin Ó Broin: We need straight answers on hike in cost of social housing

The question must be asked as to why the private sector is charging DCC €100,000 more per apartment to build than it is charging itself
  • Eoin Ó Broin
  • January 31, 2021

Poolbeg site slipped through state fingers due to clash with council

Chances of affordable homes on the 37-acre Ringsend site in Dublin are now slim, say council officials, due to high price paid by developers
  • Killian Woods
  • January 10, 2021

Sinn Féin is an unashamedly populist party, says Ó Broin

The party’s Housing spokesperson insists that when Mary Lou McDonald or Gerry Adams rail against the elites, ‘that‘s a populist strategic manoeuvre’
  • Rachel Lavin
  • November 24, 2020

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