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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Section 183-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Good afternoon, I welcome everyone to this meeting of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Today's meeting will be split into two 90-minute sessions to discuss homelessness and follow up on a report on a number of issues related to homelessness and housing, published by the committee last year. For the first session we are joined by officials from the Department of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Witnesses must keep to the five-minute allocation. They will get a chance to touch on the bits they do not read.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I move to Ms Mary Hayes on behalf of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank Ms Hayes. There will be an opportunity to speak a little further on some of those issues based on the witnesses' statements. Finally, I invite Mr. Brian Geaney from Cork City Council to read his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I apologise to Senator Fitzpatrick but I have to move on to get everybody in. I will bring in Deputy Gould next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I apologise to Mr. Geaney for having to interrupt him. We will return to some of those other aspects he has highlighted in his opening statement, as I am sure some of the questions from members will also do. I am going to go to the members now and we will have five-minute slots, which is the only way we can fit everybody in. If we could have direct questions and answers, we will get a lot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I have got to move on. I do not have time for an answer to that question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: -----but we might be able to come back to it. Deputy Higgins will take the Fine Gael slot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: We are out of time in this slot. It is my slot next but I will give it up to allow Deputy Higgins to explore this a little further, just for another couple of minutes. Then we will proceed to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Kelly wishes to come in on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: We will move on from that. It probably requires a little more exploration because I did not quite follow it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Hayes but I must move on now. That is the end of that slot. Senator Cummins is next and has five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Very briefly for the response because I have three more contributors and only 15 minutes. Everyone will get five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry, but I must move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy for sticking to time. I will move to Deputy Wynne who has five minutes. That will bring us up to the completion of this part of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: We have reached the end of this meeting. I thank Mr. Kelly, Ms Hayes and Mr. Geaney for being with us today. It is an incredibly challenging sector that they work in. On behalf of the committee, I thank them for taking time out to be with us here today to help us get a better understanding of it and also to bring back an acknowledgement and I also thank all the people who work for them in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Kelly referred to the social housing need assessment. When the latest report is issued, the committee would appreciate it if that could be sent on to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Exactly.