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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will phrase it in this way. Will Mr. Ó Coigligh assure this committee that he or the Minister will, following the meeting today, order an examination of this particular quarry in terms of the geological and petrographic assessment to be carried out and that when this is done it would be independently and urgently examined, including getting access to that quarry to do that? That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will Mr. Ó Coigligh revert back to the committee when that advice has been received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair enough. Mr. Ó Coigligh will appreciate what I am trying to do here is to get assurance for people that we will learn the lessons of what led to this disaster and make sure they do not happen again. When he gets that advice, will he revert back to the committee and advise on what action can be taken? Is that fair enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will you revert back around that particular quarry that left the vast majority of homes the way they are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that.

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As this is an important debate with implications for thousands of families across the State, I fail to understand why there is not even a Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage present to hear what we have to say. I ask the present Minister of State, who is at the Department of Justice, to ensure Ministers read back the transcript of what we are about...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is stand-up now.

Appointment of Ministers of State (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will raise a point of clarification. On Thursday, there will be questions to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Taoiseach has indicated that the Minister, Deputy McGrath, will now take responsibility for the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO. Will he be here tomorrow? We understand he will be in Davos.

Appointment of Ministers of State (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Who is taking questions tomorrow?

Appointment of Ministers of State (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: So there is no Minister accountable to the Dáil on those questions tomorrow. Is that what the Taoiseach is saying?

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is not a question-and-answer session.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Patience. The Minister has had five minutes and has not answered a single question.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is unbelievable.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an utter embarrassment to democracy. I think the Ceann Comhairle should. This is an utter disgrace.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister had five minutes and did not answer a single question. Does the Ceann Comhairle think he answered one question? Does the Ceann Comhairle seriously think any questions were answered?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday the Government announced a multi-billion euro scheme for the victims of the cowboys who built defective apartments. The measures, such as 100% redress, victims being fully supported by the Housing Agency, financial assistance for those who already carried out work, remediation works based on up-to-date regulations and whole apartments being done, are all very welcome but there is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need 100% redress for everybody.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not there.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister does not know how many posters were involved.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State will reimburse 90% of the engineering costs to the family of an applicant who has passed away before the completion of stage 1 under the defective concrete block grant scheme. [63537/22]