Results 761-780 of 2,018 for speaker:Pat Casey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: I welcome the presentations. I read some of these reports well over a year ago and it is frustrating to see how long it takes to get anything done. Dr. Healy referred to the question of whether something was on the balance sheet or off it but we have come so far in the housing crisis that we would look at anything that might be a solution. This offers an off-balance sheet model that could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: Ireland has a social housing stock in or around 9%. If we are to move to the cost rental and public housing model, what percentage of the housing market does Dr. O'Connell think the State should control, either through a housing company of Ireland or directly through the State which would have a sustainable balancing factor on the market? On the model itself, I am not sure how long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Pat Casey: The cost rental model includes a maintenance fee within it, which is vital. It is what has been lacking in local authorities.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (7 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasoning for the catchment area for the village of Tinahely, County Wicklow in relation to the allocation of schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36766/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next stage will be introduced for each secondary school in County Wicklow on the school building programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36768/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (7 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being introduced to assist up to 44 teaching school principals in County Wicklow further to their request to seek one day administrative leave with support provided as recommended by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36769/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (7 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a surgical procedure (details supplied); his plans to introduce same here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35649/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 1409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the population growth targets under the national development plan will be implemented in each local authority; the impact of same on the capacity of local authorities such as in County Wicklow to make provision for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36772/18]

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: I welcome the motion and fully support Fianna Fáil's amendment, which brings a degree of realism and ambition to an issue that is causing great hardship to rural communities in Wicklow. Rural post offices should not be held to the same profit and loss margins that other businesses are bound by. The Bobby Kerr report rightly outlined the social capital character of post office services...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (18 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 823. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts that have been made to secure the lands that are for sale at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36994/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight and Audit Commission: Chairperson Designate (19 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: I wish Mr. McCarthy the very best of luck in his new role. Senator Victor Boyhan identified many of the key points I was going to mention. The NOAC does an incredible amount of good work. As Mr. McCarthy stated, 18 reports have been completed. I often wonder how many of the actions or recommendations made within those reports have been implemented by local authorities. From my point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Advisory Body: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank Dr. McGowan for his presentation. I wish the advisory body the best of luck. I was not a supporter of the establishment of Irish Water five years ago, but we are where we are. My objection concerned local democracy, not the national issue. The establishment of Irish Water removed from local representatives the power to decide how their county grew. I still hold that point of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the building programme for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be commenced, including a full site investigation and timetable for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38045/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: In the two and a half years the Government has been in office, there has been a sad and frustrating predictability about the school transport chaos that has hit different villages throughout Ireland, including in Wicklow, every September. It essentially has the same characteristics. Letters of notification of withdrawal of Bus Éireann school bus transport services to families in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I would like to comment further on the two schools I mentioned earlier and ask that the Minister engage with me later on the specific issues. First, Coláiste Chill Mhantáin in the village of Redcross opened in 2012, following the amalgamation of two schools from Wicklow town. In terms of distance, Redcross is closer to Coláiste...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: There are aspects of our worsening housing crisis and the political management of this crisis that need to be called out in this debate. I sincerely ask those whose job it is to report on this debate, and indeed whose responsibility is to bring to public attention the truth about the housing crisis, to reflect on what is said here. The statistics on housing and homelessness are grim and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the neuro-rehab strategy plan; the progress in providing cognitive occupational therapists, adult speech and language therapists and psychological services in primary care centres in Bray and other centres in Wicklow, Arklow and Blessington, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38732/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Future of Council Housing: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for the report and recommendations which are concise and easy to understand. Some of them relate to matters which it is already within the power of local authorities to do themselves, including ring-fencing income from housing rents. It is in the hands of local authority members to do that at the moment. One of the recommendations was that income from the property tax...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: The HAP place finder process is a huge benefit to any county that has it. Some 14 local authorities have indicated that they wish to set up a HAP place finder process. How many of these are up and running? Has the Department received any applications for the mortgage-to-rent scheme? Has there been any take-up of the rural housing relocation scheme? Is it a worthwhile scheme? Have any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Pat Casey: If a project has been sitting there for five years I wonder whether it should be there at all.