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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: We will start with Dr. MacLellan because all of Deputy Barry's questions related to her Department. We will then move on to Ms Timmons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: Does Deputy Barry want to use his remaining time to ask a follow-up question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: We have had two days of very informative engagement on this issue. I know that there is a different policy in each country on the allocation of funding. In my county it is done on the basis of time. The local authority receives the allocation and then advertises. There is a closing date and the money is then allocated. I think Senator Murnane O'Connor might have referred to the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: Either the State provides housing for people with disabilities or the private individual must adapt his or her own home. We are not meeting the needs of people with disabilities, but the State cannot meet them within its own physical stock, and the private individual is in his or her own residence. However, there are landlords whose houses could be adapted for people with disabilities if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: Yes. I was referring more to the first set and the people on the housing lists whom we will not reach. If there was an incentive, we could enter into an agreement with a landlord to adapt a house to meet specific needs. I do not believe that there is any such incentive now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank Mr. O'Reilly. I thank all the witnesses for attending this meeting and engaging with the committee. These have been two very informative days and they will feed into our report. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, 18 September. I hope everyone enjoys the summer recess.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (9 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the plans of the HSE in relation to the old health clinic and surrounding lands in Tinahely, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29601/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank Ms Barron for her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank Ms Barron and I invite Mr. Cunningham to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank Mr. Cunningham. I will take questions now in groups of two, starting with Senator Murnane O'Connor and Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I extend a warm welcome to Senator Dolan and acknowledge the work he has done in the sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: The Deputy should ask his final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I call Ms Barron.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: Does Mr. Cunningham wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I will make a few comments before we conclude. Senator Murnane O'Connor asked whether having someone with a disability on a board or on different organisations would make a difference. It does make a difference and I have examples of it. We were lucky to elect our first councillor with a disability, Ms Miriam Murphy, in Wicklow in 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: One would listen to Miriam anyway, that is for sure. Her email handle is "murphyinmotion". I also recall my mother's experience in having to retrofit her 1960s house. There is no point denying that the combination of living with and working closely with someone with a disability changes one's mindset and how one thinks, because it does. Ms Murphy had a huge role to play when she sat on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: That is fine..

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for People with a Disability: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: We appreciate the engagement of our guests. It will feed into our report, which will complement our universal living report from last year. I thank all of our guests for attending and engaging with the committee.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Pat Casey: I move the amendment No. 7:In page 9, to delete lines 4 and 5 and substitute the following:“(e) the public consultation process that must be followed by a local authority before a scheme under this section is approved; (f) any other matters which appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this section.”. The amendment relates to a vacancy...