Results 301-320 of 9,814 for speaker:Steven Matthews
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We will put it in under No. 24, but when we come to fine-tune No.24, it might have to become 24A or 24B. It is about how we fit it into that category.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Would Senator Fitzpatrick like to elaborate on the matter? Does she want it to be a separate category and, if so, what category, specifically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We will have to think about it further. I call Deputy Ó Broin followed by Deputy O'Donoghue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Those two groups are appearing before us in a separate session as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We can make it a separate category if somebody can give me a headline for that category.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We should bear in mind that this section of the work programme began addressing the approval process for large local authority housing developments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: That is where we started and we have ended up elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I will come to Deputy Murnane O'Connor in a moment. We are considering the approval process for building regeneration, including both of the Departments concerned, namely, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department with responsibility for housing, local government and heritage. We are also considering the ongoing funding and maintenance of the new and current housing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Have we reached agreement on that? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: That topic gets its own category. The approval process for build and regeneration, including the community aspect, and the lead time for such proposals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: New build and regeneration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: So that is one. Who does the Senator suggest we invite as witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I would like to move on as quick as we can. We are doing well and are nearly through the programme. I call Deputy Murnane O'Connor who will be followed by Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Boyhan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I ask Deputies Murnane O'Connor and Ó Broin and Senator Boyhan, who served on the previous committee, that where they are aware of reports that were done by the committee previously they would recommend that we would examine them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I would appreciate if members who are aware of reports or who may have read them would highlight that now and again. I am sure other members would appreciate that also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I missed that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We need to find a category for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: It comes under No. 3, which is becoming bigger as we go along.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: As we get to the stage where we-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: What does the Deputy mean when he references the base level?