Results 481-500 of 2,052 for speaker:Maria Bailey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I invite Ms Deirdre Fallon to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Ms Fallon and call Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: For people watching the proceedings, the CIRI is the construction industry register of Ireland, an online register of competent builders. Deputy Casey talked about the shortage of skills. At the height of the boom, one in eight worked in the construction industry. Can Ms Hegarty tell us what the figure is now? We lost a lot of very skilled people during the downturn and this particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I will come back to Ms Hegarty. I want to let Mr. Baldwin and Ms Fallon in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: As we are running out of time, we will go through this section a little quicker. Most of the questions were directed at Mr. Baldwin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: Does Ms Fallon want to come back in on anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank the witnesses for attending this morning. Obviously, after they leave here, if there is anything further that they think would be valuable to the report, we would appreciate if they might send it in to the committee so that we can include it if necessary. I presume we will be seeing them all again at a certain stage. I propose that suspend for a few minutes to allow our second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I welcome the witnesses from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Ms Mary Hurley, Ms Sarah Neary, Mr. John Barry, Mr. John Wickham and Mr. David Hannigan. Before we begin, I draw their attention 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....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Ms Neary for her presentation and invite Deputy Ó Broin to pose some questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I think the question regarding rapid build has already been put. Following on from our previous session, how many staff have been approved in housing over the past couple of years and in the building control area particularly? There was a significant loss of staff between 2006 and 2011. It will take time to rebuild that. The watchdog argument was raised with the previous panel of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: Some 657 were allocated since 2015.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I think it is the case that the assigned certifier will not sign off on the final-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I would presume the builder would take cognisance of what the recommendation is. I am only presuming that. Hopefully, we are not going back to the way it used to be and the builder would take cognisance of the advice. If they do not, the assigned certifier cannot sign off on the final product, so to speak, or dwelling or building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: I presume there would be a red flag. They obviously cannot take themselves out of that process. They have to be let go. I presume that would be a red flag and that there would then be further inspections.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: Ms Neary appears to have addressed most of the issues raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Maria Bailey: We would welcome any further information the witnesses think is relevant to the report so that it will be a very robust document. I thank our witnesses, Ms Sarah Neary, Ms Mary Hurley, Mr. David Hannigan, Mr. John Wickham and Mr. John Barry, for coming in this morning and for the ongoing communications to this committee. I thank the committee members and the committee staff for all the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Business of Committee (4 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on their device. It is not sufficient for members to put their phones on silent mode as this will maintain a level of interference with the broadcasting system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I remind members that there will be two sessions today. I welcome to our first session Deputy Joan Collins, Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail and Ms Treasa Brannick O’Cillín. At today's meeting we are considering Deputy Collins's Bill on water in public ownership. The Bill was referred to this committee for consideration and today's meeting will involve detailed scrutiny of the...