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- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome it but the Leader is forgetting rural Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome good news.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am listening.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am listening, and it is all in the Dublin area.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I attend the housing meetings every week. I know what is happening.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In the general election the Leader's party said the recession was over.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Leader cannot blame Fianna Fáil forever. His party had six years in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We made mistakes but his party promised the same.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: On a point of order, one year on we still have no respite care service in Carlow. There are still 40 children with disabilities with no access to a respite care service-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. We need to have respite care services up and running quickly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Other areas are affected. Kilkenny and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I would just like to ask for clarification on a particular issue. On 9 March, Mr. McCarthy spoke to this committee on Pillar 3, regarding active land management planning reforms. I am aware that every local authority has been written to about their landbanks. My biggest issue is that I have gone through this with local authorities and we have, through the Department, developed a spatial...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: To clarify, what will happen if a local authority writes to the Department stating it has de-zoned land on which it now believes houses might be built? Rural areas are not getting the same attention as the cities, which is fair enough and which I appreciate. Will the Department then look at each local authority individually and decide it has a good case in a particular instance on which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes, and timescale.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That would be good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: To continue on from what Senator Boyhan said, I have major concerns about this area, particularly when we consider that there is a rolling fund of €70 million to purchase vacant properties from banks and investment companies. That is welcome but where is it happening and what is being done? I ask the Minister to defend the housing assistance payment, HAP scheme, which all of us...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: If the witness does not mind, I just want clarification on HAP. I have a major issue with this. There are now rent pressure zones, as we are calling them, in the local authorities in Dublin and Cork. I think it has also been rolled out to 12 other areas. It is very confusing and I believe it is very unfair. I think the criteria brought in for the statistics are way off the mark. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I heard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Is there funding there for local authorities? That is a key issue for me.