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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Yes. Deputy Durkan's suggestion will hopefully address that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I would remind members at this stage that we are not discussing the issue as such. I am not disagreeing with the points that members are raising, but we are trying to identify specifically what actions we can take as a committee. The first specific action we have dealt with today was Deputy Durkan's point. However, in order to address exactly the points that members are making, including...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: To be of assistance, representatives of the Irish Council for Social Housing will be our witnesses on Thursday afternoon.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Deputy Ó Broin's proposal is to have three or four county managers with a representative of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in the session.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Some of that might be addressed this afternoon, Deputy.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I agree with the Deputy and that is effectively what Deputy Ó Broin was saying, but in conjunction with the Department so that it would be a joint meeting. That was his proposal.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I spoke to the secretariat about how we might do it. As there is a very short timeframe, it might not always be possible to get a witness for a given day.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We cannot afford to miss a session on a Tuesday or Thursday so we need a degree of latitude for the secretariat to try to get the relevant witnesses rather than just somebody from the Department or wherever else.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Are members generally happy with that point? It is a general point and we still have to deal with potential witnesses, which is different. I do not want to get into that now, although I take the point.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: That is the first step taken by the committee. The County and City Managers' Association will be here this afternoon and the representatives will be asked for the information outlined by the Deputy. There will be a follow-up meeting with local authority and Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government representatives to develop the exact point made by the Deputy. We will...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: That is only so far, Deputy. We have not done the list, so-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: It is your prerogative to make that proposal. We-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: May I interrupt for a moment? I am not disagreeing with the Deputy but we are still on No. 2 on the agenda, social housing, and she has been referring to homelessness and Alice Leahy. I would like to finish deciding who we want to appear in respect of No. 2, social housing. We will take Alice Leahy later under the heading of homelessness, if that is okay with the Deputy.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We will just conclude on social housing.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Wait one moment. We are on social housing. We will come to the financing aspect presently. I am not being dismissive of it but it is a section in its own right.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: The County and City Management Association.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: That has been the arrangement-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I ask members to speak through the Chair in order that we can conduct the meeting in as orderly a manner as possible. I call Deputy Coppinger.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Sorry, Deputy, my apologies.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I will take that to be specific because we have agreed that we are going to invite in the local authorities. In terms of the Deputy's point about the reluctance and the objections to planning and the modular housing, we will advise them in advance that those questions will be raised so that they can provide the relevant answers. On the issue of social housing, are we happy to conclude?