Results 581-600 of 2,018 for speaker:Pat Casey

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I appreciate that and I fully understand the reason for the equalisation process. However, a number of counties have concerns in regard to the baseline and there needs to be clarity brought to this issue. Wicklow County Council is complaining that it is being disadvantaged as against other local authorities. There needs to be more transparency brought to the baseline figure and how it is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: What is the timeframe for the baseline review?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: Fair enough.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: Is that a forecast?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I do not know the full history of this case but how can something like that happen today? A developer can manage to build 44 apartments for which there was no planning permission and which did not meet building standards.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (27 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: A building with 44 apartment units was built without planning permission and nobody was aware of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. I will make a general comment before I focus on the presentation by Engineers Ireland. I wish to stress that the purpose of this Bill is never to minimise fire or disability standards and I stress this every time I speak on the Bill. The purpose of the one stop shop is to try to harmonise three different processes into one. The fire and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: We agree with that, and that is why this Bill equally says that when the one-stop shop approval is secured, that process can dictate the number of inspections to be carried out on a project. We all know the type of work we are talking about might be a very simple or very complicated piece of construction work. Some might not involve any construction work at all; perhaps a fabric change is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I suppose this goes back to the intent of the Bill. We might have to look at the exact wording. We are saying that the works permit will include a fire certificate and a disability certificate. This means that the very same process which is gone through today will have to be gone through under the system we are proposing. I will take on board the point that it is probably not realistic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank Mr. Hynes for his contribution. We all have the same overall objective. Technical guidance documents would assist the fire officer to deal with the certification of applications. It comes back to the fundamental issue of independent inspection and assigning an independent inspector. It should be throughout the whole construction period. We sometimes question whether we should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: If a site is only inspected once by a local authority, that will be included in the percentage even though the site should be inspected a number of times. There should be a number of independent inspections, not just one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: They are issues.

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: Affordable housing is a key element of the medium to long term strategy to solve our housing crisis. Following the publication of the latest homeless figures yesterday, all of us in this Chamber must pause. The figures released yesterday deserve an emergency response by the Government, the Dáil, the media and every local authority. Where is the red alert? I have served in this...

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: On 18 October 2016, a press release announced the sale of Ardmore Studios, which included the 32% State shareholding. Alarm bells immediately sounded when I and other public representatives were denied access to the prospectus of sale in order to clarify whether the studio was being sold as prime development land. Why was the State selling its large holding of shares in Ardmore Studios with...

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for answering but there were several questions I asked that she did not answer directly. The only direct answer she gave relates to the zoning and thanks are due to the public representatives in Wicklow who have maintained the zoning there. Will the Minister give full disclosure as to how the process was carried out? Will we get full information on the round 1 bidding...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (17 Apr 2018)

Pat Casey: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Wicklow in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16578/18]

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (17 Apr 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for his reply. I sincerely hope the Commissioner looks at Wicklow because Wicklow has seen a continual decline in Garda numbers since 2009. In 2009, there were 360, which reduced to 355, 339, 334, 328 and all the way down to 299 in 2017. Last year, the number of inspectors decreased from nine to five. The number in our traffic corps has reduced from 30 to 16. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Pat Casey: Not everywhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for Older People: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Pat Casey: I fully agree with Deputy Ó Broin that standards in respect of universal living and designing for older people should come from central government. If we leave them to 31 or 32 local authorities, there will be differences across the country. I agree that it is much easier to design these things at the beginning rather than retrofit them. As Mr. Moynihan said, a 3% cost over the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (19 Apr 2018)

Pat Casey: 39. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Wicklow LHO experienced a reduction of 33,722 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17040/18]