Results 721-740 of 2,018 for speaker:Pat Casey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: Speak through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: Excuse me, please speak through the Chair. Deputy Ó Broin, you may come back briefly. We are not going into this argument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: Ms McCormick do you want to come back in? We are finishing up after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: We will agree to disagree. I thank all the witnesses for attending today and engaging with the committee. The committee will publish a report in the near future. I propose that we go back into private session to discussion some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for all of the information he has supplied us with in the past 24 hours. There is a lot of detail to get through. I will start with homelessness. I want to acknowledge the work that has been done in the area. The Minister said more than 2,080 families have been taken out of emergency accommodation and now have secure tenure, something which we must acknowledge. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: I think the DRHE has requested clarification of the definition of homelessness. Will the Minister comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: On the gathering of information for the homeless figures, does the quarterly report published on the Department's website contain more information than the monthly report? Are there standard guidelines within each local authority on how they report the information to the Department? Is there a standard format for so doing? Who is responsible for liaison between the Department and local...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (26 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the waiting lists for neurology treatments in CHO 6 and 7; the waiting list times for CHO 6 and 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27859/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (26 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his engagement with the pharmaceutical industry and organisations involved with multiple sclerosis here with a view to ensuring that new medical treatments are provided to persons suffering from this condition in a timely and affordable manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27878/18]

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Pat Casey: This is like groundhog day. During my previous contribution on homelessness in our republic in March, I concluded by pleading to Government to declare homelessness to be a national emergency. Our homelessness national emergency needs a whole-of-government response with daily targets and reports, rather than quarterly. I ask Government to do this now and to declare that the common good of...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: I commend Deputy Wallace on his genuine and practical knowledge and views on the land speculation element of our wholesale housing crisis. Land hoarding and speculation were significant factors in the housing bubble that occurred a number of years ago. I thought we had all learned the lessons that were so brutally exposed when the crash occurred ten years ago. I know that Fianna Fáil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording service, members and visitors in the Public Gallery 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 to put phones on silent mode as this will maintain a level of interference with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: The next item is standards in the private rental sector - a review of policy and practice. Today's meeting will involve engagement on the current policy and practice of standards in the private rental sector. On behalf of the committee, I welcome to Mr. Paul Dunne and Mr. Neil Maher, from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; Ms Rosalind Carroll and Ms Janette Fogarty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: I call on Ms Carroll to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: I now call on Dr. Hayden to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank Ms Hayden. I now call on Mr. Walsh to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: Senator Boyhan, we can do a five minutes backwards and forwards and then we can go around a second time if we need to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: Does Mr. Dunne want to address those points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: Does anyone else wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: It was yesterday.