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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: I invite Mr. Fogarty to give his concluding comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for their engagement with the committee. I am sure they will be back with us before the Bill is passed by the Houses.

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: The housing crisis is a perfect storm. Not one element of the housing sector is functioning normally. While I accept that this makes it difficult to address the crisis, if anything, the scale of the crisis dictates that the Government must respond with the same focus on pragmatic solutions as it put into communicating the crisis. Before referring to the private rented sector, I request...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school (details supplied); the progression of this project since its inception; the proposed completion date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: When will the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016 be completed? Will the Taoiseach confirm the Bill is required to place the national planning framework on a statutory footing? When does he envisage the House voting on the Bill given that it is due to be completed in December? Will he confirm to the House the exact sequence of events required for the adoption of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the Chairman and I thank all the witnesses for their presentations here today. Coming from a local authority background, only one and a half years ago, I feel the pain of the local authority members. Back in 2014 we envisaged that local democracy was returning through Putting People First but, as it turned out, it did not restore any local democracy around funding. With regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I asked about the methodology and transparency in the calculation of the baseline. I think everyone is concerned about how that is done. Is Mr. O'Sullivan happy with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I am conscious of time as the session is scheduled to conclude by 11 a.m. We will extend the session by approximately 15 minutes. I ask the remaining four speakers to be as brief as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: Would Mr. Moylan like to come in first on these questions? I ask him to keep his answers brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: That is not relevant to the funding model. I must ask the Senator to stick to that topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: We are not discussing the national planning framework. We are discussing the funding for local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I will take questions from Deputy O'Dowd in this round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: The Deputy must conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: Every member was allocated five minutes. Deputy O'Dowd is now into his sixth minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: Does Mr. O'Sullivan wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I am sorry Senator, we will do a first round of questions and anyone who wishes to come in a second time may do so then. Did Mr. Geoghegan wish to say something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be brief. I want to discuss how information is presented to local authorities to provide a full understanding of the end of year financial statement. I wish people the best of luck in trying to relate an end of year financial statement to a budget book. We need to look at how the budget book is presented to councillors. In all fairness, trying to follow that budget book is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: Perhaps I should have asked about the methodology, the transparency of the general purpose grant and how it was calculated because there are discrepancies. As councillors, we all said that Dún Laoghaire was getting more and Wicklow was getting less and we asked how the general purpose was granted, what methodology was used and the transparency behind it. If it is not the baseline I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I do not want to take much time but this is a critical point. We are arguing about the baseline, which goes back to 2008. The services provided by local authorities since then have increased enormously but the baseline has not moved with them. This is the problem we faced in the first session. The CCMA and the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, said the baseline needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: I need to go back to the baseline issue and I apologise for harking back to this. Did Mr. Lemass say that the Minister for Finance is considering the baseline with a view to changing it? Somebody is shaking their head to indicate no. Many local authorities are saying, and the witnesses have more or less confirmed this today, that the baseline has not been reviewed in 17 years. It was...