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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: My point is not to disagree. We will address the first issue, to ensure that the structures we are discussing now, which are at present no more than a series of suggestions, can become adopted in some coherent way by the committee. Following that, we can proceed to the kind of sessions Deputy O'Dowd suggests, if everybody is in agreement.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: I cannot promise the Deputy that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: That is the plan. I apologise for this but we are going through the mechanics of how we will operate. Our next meeting is on Tuesday. The first part of the session is to deal with finalising the structures and the afternoon session is allocated to the Minister and the city and county managers. The one concern is that we are bringing them in with a very broad format. Perhaps we will be...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: I am in the hands of members. While I will try to make meetings as efficient as possible, as the Deputy knows, it all depends on how a meeting is going and its content. I do not want to cut it off arbitrarily.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: Yes, on a Tuesday and probably on a Thursday to give us a day in between. If we meet twice a week, having a day in between meetings might be useful.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: No. The second session next week will involve the Minister and city and county managers. It is relatively short notice. They are Nos. 1 and 2, in that order. In case they are unavailable, would the committee like to suggest Nos. 3 and 4?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: We can ask them.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: I have enough from which to work. Once we move beyond this and build a schedule, people will have more notice and the expectation in terms of their attendance will be better. It is relatively short notice for some of them. Are members happy to adjourn and meet next Tuesday morning? They will receive the documentation.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

John Curran: We will meet at 10.30 a.m.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Incidence (21 Apr 2016)

John Curran: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have been assessed by the Health Service Executive as having a diagnosis of autism for each of the years from 2010 to 2015. [7862/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (21 Apr 2016)

John Curran: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to an assessment and diagnosis by the Health Service Executive, he will outline the number of children who are currently awaiting the services of a speech and language therapist; the number of these children who are waiting for more than six months, more than one year and more than two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7863/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (21 Apr 2016)

John Curran: 66. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to an assessment and diagnosis by the Health Service Executive, he will outline the number of children currently awaiting the services of an occupational therapist; the number of these children who are waiting for more than six months, more than one year and more than two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7864/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: Good morning. We have a quorum and are now in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Cowen. At the request of broadcasting and recording services, members are asked to ensure their mobile telephones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode depending on the device. It is not sufficient for members to merely put their phones in silent mode as...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: The order establishing this committee requires it to provide an interim report to the Dáil outlining its proposed work schedule for consideration by the Dáil on 28 April. As discussed at our meeting of 20 April, a draft copy of the interim report was circulated to members last Friday and comments were requested to be submitted by 12.30 p.m. yesterday. Ten key issues have emerged...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: I was planning to seek suggestions and agree them as we go rather than coming back to items. We are dealing with the first item, which is the Government's strategy for housing and homelessness. We have agreed to discuss this with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, on Thursday morning.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: The Deputy has covered a number of topics in one go and we will return to them later.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: Yes, but I have not reached item No. 6, which is homelessness. We are still on item No. 1, the Government strategy for housing. The Minister has been invited. Is the committee agreed that he is the correct person in that regard?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: That is agreed. The second issue is social housing. Deputy Durkan mentioned the local authorities and this is the point at which we can focus on some of the issues raised previously.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: On potential witnesses for the subject of social housing, Deputy Ryan.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

John Curran: The committee has agreed that the witnesses appearing this afternoon will be asked to collate the relevant information from each local authority in respect of the issues identified by Deputy Durkan and submit it to us. That information will come back to the committee as correspondence from each local authority. The issue we are dealing with now is social housing and the witnesses we might...