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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Does the Deputy want to read out her list and suggest which category she would put it into?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry, would that be better off under No. 17, the retrofitting programme. which will look not just at insulation but how energy is used throughout?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We will put the second issue under No. 17.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: It is probably something we can touch on with the planning regulator and local government staffing levels as it is across both.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry, I did not note down where the Deputy suggested the final one was to go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Are members agreed? It is agreed. Go ahead, Deputy Gould.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Will we bring that in under No. 1, the nursing home support scheme? I think it has been mentioned already, has it not? I thank Deputy Higgins. We will have a look at Deputy O'Donoghue's item now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I just want to see if any of these fit into the categories we have done already. Would rock salt on dry roads not be a matter for the Department of Transport? Is it a local authority action? I will come back to it in a minute, Deputy O'Donoghue, as there is quite a bit in it and I need to read it first. There was also another item from Senator Fitzpatrick that was added in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry, they have been added in order and I did not see that. I call Deputy McAuliffe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Deputy McAuliffe raised construction defects and that will be covered under No. 2. You also raised a review of the multi-unit development schemes and the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011. I am going to cover that under No. 5.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Would that be okay? Deputy Ó Broin wanted to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I think it probably would cover adaptability. Adaptability of buildings is something one has to think of as one plans construction and plan communities. As was referenced earlier on, one must plan to be able to adapt building stock within communities so one is not breaking up communities and saying to people that once they reach an elderly age they must go somewhere else when they still...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: There are a lot of large houses out there with perhaps only one person living in them. I understand why they do not want to leave that area however, as it is where they are from. As such we need that range of developments where people can stay in their communities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes. Deputy Ó Broin, did you suggest the previous committee's report on the nursing home support scheme be circulated and we could review it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Are members happy to go with that? I will add the fair deal scheme to No. 19 to ensure it does not end up in a different category. Were we were going through Senator Fitzpatrick's list.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We had just finished Deputy McAuliffe's list.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Does the Senator want to give that a separate category and title?