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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I will make one comment before Mr. Boyle comes in. I read Mr. O'Flynn's opening statement last night. Much of what he said I could say myself. It is a topic about which I have an open mind. I am on record as saying so. While I do not feel I have been fully convinced of the need for it in full, it is not something that I have ruled out either. The Housing Commission analysed it in far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is important to clarify that. Home for Good has been before this committee before where we had these frank and honest discussions. The question I wish to ask Mr. Boyle or, perhaps, Dr. Casey relates to the points that both Dr. Lyons and Mr. O'Flynn made in their argument that this constitutional amendment is not required and that this can be achieved without it. If there is to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Sure, but I am sure Housing for Good looked at the wording of the minority report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I would like to know its opinion on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I am sorry to cut Mr. Boyle off but my time is up. I am sure the Chair will give me just as much latitude as the previous speaker. My specific question relates to the wording in the minority report. A different view is expressed in it, and that is fine. However, a wording is suggested in the report to cover circumstances where certain action might be taken. This is the Joint Committee on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is important to differentiate between the individual and wider society. I remember asking Mr. Stanley a question the last time Home for Good appeared before this committee in relation to the issue of individual litigation. That certainly was not the focus of what Home for Good was proposing.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I want to make a number of points on the section related to the definitions in the Bill. I welcome this long overdue legislation to reform part of the Seanad. The Minister has been quite clear, as has the Minister of State, that this is a process. This is not the end of what Seanad reform will be but it is a significant stepping stone. I am fortunate enough to have voted in the 2009,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for taking the Commencement matter. She will agree that the work civil registration offices do daily to register births, deaths and marriages is invaluable. The staff in all of these offices are to be commended on the work they do. She will also agree with the importance of this essential service being located in areas that are easily accessible to the public...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is actually health.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for her response but unfortunately it does not address the matter sufficiently. This is a staffing issue, yes. For some bizarre reason, the HSE is responsible for the staffing in these offices even though civil registration is actually under the remit of the Department of Social Protection. In the first line of her response, the Minister of State mentioned...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The Leader is aware that I sought a debate with the Minister for Transport and the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, on aviation policy. This is the fifth occasion that I have used the Order of Business to seek such a debate. My understanding from the previous response I received was that the request has gone in from the Seanad Office every time but that to date no timescale has been...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

John Cummins: I welcome the fact that today 49 cost-rental units will be advertised in Mountneil in Waterford city. These are being delivered by a local developer in partnership with Tuath Housing Association and Waterford City and County Council. These 49 A-rated three-bedroom and two-bedroom homes are being delivered at rents ranging from €1,000 to €1,200 depending on the size of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I apologise to the Minister for his sitting in the chair for the last three hours without getting to speak. I promise I will be brief in my points. I feel left out of the conversation this morning, so felt the necessity of contributing. I will bring it around the amendments and sections we are dealing with. Section 46 deals with housing development strategies and section 52 is on...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: It is unfair to target a Member like that.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Not to labour the point, but I ask the Senator to look at section 58(12)(e). Where, in proposing a variation the members of an authority are not in compliance with the Office of the Planning Regulator or the Minister, they have to give notice of the reasons for the decision not to comply with the recommendations concerned.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No, that is it. There is no recommendation. Let us be very clear. Senator McDowell is suggesting that there is some sort of other veto, but that is not in the Bill before us. We need to be honest about that. It is clear in section 58(12)(e).

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No.