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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Briefly, Deputy.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Does Deputy Wallace wish to afford the Minister an opportunity to respond?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: The Minister has a couple of minutes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: The four Dublin local authorities are appearing this afternoon.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Some €50 million perhaps.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Deputy Coppinger, please.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Build-to-lease-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Let us not go there.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Thank you, Minister, and thanks to your officials for your attendance today. I was pleased to see that in your opening statement you used terms like "housing crisis" and "emergency situation". This is the manner in which the committee has been addressing the issues. The committee's report will be available in approximately two weeks' time. Fortunately, this should feed in nicely to the...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Yes. They are all coming in together at 2.45 p.m.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Yes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: I remind members and witnesses to turn off mobile telephones or switch them to flight mode. They interfere with the recording and the broadcast of the meeting. I draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: I thank Ms Nic Aongusa for her opening statement. Before we turn to questions, I invite Mr. Eugene Cummins to make his opening statement on behalf of the County and City Management Association, CCMA.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Cummins for his opening statement. Some of the witnesses have been here before and as this is our final meeting, issues that have arisen over a number of weeks during our deliberations and consultations with others have prompted further questions around areas relating to local authorities, land banks, the planning process, the delivery between the Department and the various local...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Deputy Coppinger will get an opportunity to address those questions to the local authorities.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: At this stage, I am going to take the questions.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: Does Deputy Coppinger want to reply to that and then come back in?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: A whole range of questions have been asked. Some of them are general relating to the procurement process between the Department and local authorities, and others were specific. Perhaps the officials from the Department might answer first.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: I apologise for interrupting but could the witness put a timeframe on that process? I am not being in any way critical of the steps. We are listening to people explaining the difficulty in the process so what would that take in time? I know this is a new system so the question is how long did the old nine-step process take?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
John Curran: There is a whole committee waiting for this answer.