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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Ms Feeney. I will now proceed to my monologue. Like Deputy O'Donoghue, I hope the delegates can give me some comfort with their responses. I hope that whoever is answering my next question has a mother or mother-in-law from Longford. Probably only 11 counties are being actively encouraged to come forward with an affordable housing scheme. In Longford, we have not built a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: If an approved housing body proposed an affordable housing scheme for an area that is not technically designated, would it be possible to consider it at present? Would it have to be kicked back to the Department to obtain permission to proceed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. They have given us a very good overview. I have to confess to having some skin in this game. I grew up many years ago in a small rural filling station. I am very aware of some of the issues in recent weeks. I have great empathy for the small filling station operators and their staff, many of whom have been vilified over the past couple of weeks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In regard to the wholesalers and warehouses, will the CCPC be looking at those? I appreciate that Mr. Godfrey is constrained in what he can say. Has he looked at those or does he intent to look at those as part of the investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. I wish to make one other point. I have given some oversight of it, in terms of the step up in the price increase that took place in the five-day run-up to the reduction in excise. Every dog in the street knew there was going to be a reduction in excise. The reality is that 24 hours prior to the reduction in excise, a small rural filling station would have placed its order for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I have a final point which Mr. Godfrey may have confirmed for me earlier. In regard to small independent retail stations that want to come forward, all of that is under the guarantee of anonymity on any information they provide to the CCPC, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. Godfrey for his forthright contribution. I will pass on to the next contributor.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an update will be provided on the Local Community Safety Partnership pilot in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (31 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 42. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on community specialist teams for older persons. [16863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (31 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional home support hours that are being provided in 2022 for persons living with dementia. [16862/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the public health supports that are available to schools for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13502/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I congratulate Mr. O'Connor on his tenure as chair. Hopefully he can leave here unblemished and have a successful tenure. I pay tribute to the Housing Alliance for its important work in providing housing. Approved housing bodies across the country have a success story to tell. It is great to see that it is continuing and the scale of their ambition. I have two key questions. It does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: An important message from today's meeting is that the Housing Alliance will deliver almost 40,000 houses over the next nine years, which is almost double what is projected in Housing for All. That is good news and I commend the witnesses on that. I am interested in the cost rental model and the fact that the Housing Alliance will have to look at smaller units. Has it engaged with any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: There are many good lessons for us about modular housing, particular looking at the work of the Department of Education. It is doing Herculean work on modular building and that is something on which our guests must build. There are a number of very good providers in that area. I am pleased the Housing Alliance is engaging on that issue. A bone of contention for the many happy tenants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I will turn now to the housing delivery co-ordination office. Mr. Taaffe or Ms Geraghty may wish to take my question. When I start to talk about this next issue, I feel like Tony McCoy getting back on the hobby horse. The issue is affordable housing for rural Ireland and the fact that 13 counties have thus far been excluded from that scheme. I understand, and hope our guests will confirm,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: When do our guests anticipate that an affordable housing scheme will come to fruition in any of those 13 counties, Longford in particular?

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I know the Ceann Comhairle has stepped out but I want to pay tribute to him for hosting President Zelenskyy earlier. He spoke passionately and emotively from the heart and he represented the views of the people of Ireland. I commend the Minister, who also spoke most eloquently. It was wonderful to hear him namecheck and quote some of the 21 previous speakers who had addressed the Houses....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the IDA commitment to deliver an advanced building solution in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18635/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank both speakers for their informative contributions. I will go to the Dogs Trust representatives on the issue of databases, which we have heard some evidence on heretofore. Could they recap the number of databases operating in the country? I accept that they operate to varying standards. I assume that the utopian solution would be a statutory database with any subsidiary databases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: With regard to the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010, it is telling that only 50% of local authorities have made the register available and accessible to members of the public to view online.