Results 7,401-7,420 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Residential Tenancies (Residential Tenancies Board) (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I will try to be brief and not cover ground already covered. In the first instance, these are EU proposals. It is not a directive or a done deal. It was stated other countries had similar queries and reservations about what was being put forward. In any set of negotiations one does not expect to walk out at the point at which one walked in. May I take it that the Department will be...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: Three minutes listening to the Tánaiste would be a lot.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 115. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an MRI scan at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [13269/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: Along with other members, I welcome the assistance officials have given to this committee and the Houses in the course of this process. The national spatial strategy was scrapped in 2012 by the previous Government and not replaced. It is high time for such a strategy or framework and I welcome that its replacement has eventually arrived. I am disappointed that it took six years for the plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: Of course, he has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I never have too much time for much of what Deputy O'Dowd says. The Government chose to disregard the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill that is currently going through the Houses as a means of facilitating a more inclusive role for Members of the Houses in agreeing a spatial strategy. That is the prerogative and the right of the Government and we respect and acknowledge that. It...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: Céim an Choiste
Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: The expert commission, the Oireachtas committee and the Dáil all agreed that the ownership of water services be enshrined in the Constitution by means of a referendum. This Bill sought to do that. I thank Deputy Collins for her forbearance and patience as we sit at this apparent impasse. As the Deputy mentioned, the Bill had the support of the Dáil in its efforts to reflect and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: Céim an Choiste
Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I formally propose that Committee Stage be postponed, that the Minister agree to consult Deputy Joan Collins and that the committee receive an update within two months on what progress, if any, has emanated from that process. As the Minister stated, amendments will not be forthcoming from the Government because it intends to rebut the Bill, which is not to say it is not committed to...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: The all-party committee agreed it.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: We cannot trust it. It is like buying a pig in a poke.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: The Government, led by the Department, has a responsibility to respond to the directive and make a recommendation to the Commission as it sees fit. I note, for example, that elements of it were in excess of the recommendations of the World Health Organization, WHO. We were supportive of the Department bringing together the various stakeholders to bring their opinions to bear on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to introduce measures to assist in financing management companies of pre-2014 multi-unit residential buildings that are found not to be in compliance with fire safety standards to undertake remedial building works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13889/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the affordable rental scheme pilot project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13888/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for a pilot project affordable rent scheme in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown; the amount that has been spent on compensating the local authority for costs incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector Strategy (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed eligibility and selection criteria for a pilot project affordable rent scheme in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown; the anticipated number of residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14139/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the high level taskforce to reappraise Ireland's response to fire safety standards announced in June 2017 met; the attendees at the meetings; the actions that have arisen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13890/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of local authorities' response and actions arising from the review of multi-storey units in the social housing sector requested by him in June 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13891/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's steps to address the classification of approved housing bodies as part of general Government expenditure; the timeframe for actions in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14136/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: 648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units covered by the enhanced leasing scheme, by county; the anticipated costs per annum in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14137/18]