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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. McLoughlin. Our first speaker is Deputy Pat Casey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Does Mr. McLoughlin wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We are under fierce time pressure. We must be finished by 11.35 a.m. in order to give our next witnesses time, so I ask our current witnesses to stick to a minute for their answers, if possible. Then they might correspond directly with the committee about anything they did not get to reply to if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Does Mr. Geoghegan wish to conclude?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Mr. O'Sullivan wanted to qualify something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the members, I thank our witnesses from the NOAC, the AILG and the CCMA for their attendance. I am sorry to rush them. We will probably have to have them before the committee again sooner rather than later because there is much more we need to debate. We will suspend the meeting to allow our second set of witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I have received apologies from Deputy Eoin Ó Broin. I welcome to our second session from the Local Government Audit Service, Ms Niamh Larkin, director of audit, and Mr. Richard Murphy; and from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Mr. Paul Lemass, Ms Lorraine O'Donoghue, Ms Sinéad Kehoe, Mr. David Kelly and Mr. Rory O'Leary. Before we begin, I draw the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Thank you, Ms Larkin. I now call on Mr. Paul Lemass to deliver his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We are on a timeframe so it might be better if we could go into it in more detail next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: This is really important for Deputy O'Dowd so it might be worth his while to speak to Ms Larkin after the meeting to get the detail he needs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Lemass. Does Deputy Casey need clarification on a point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the members, I thank Mr. Lemass, Ms Larkin and all the departmental officials for attending this meeting. If there is anything they feel they did not get to qualify in their answers, they might send it to the committee afterwards. The next meeting will be on 14 November 2017 when we will have a private briefing on the commercial rates Bill with Mr. Lemass.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are requested to ensure for the duration of the meeting that their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device. It is not sufficient for members to put their phones on silent mode as this will maintain the level of interference with the broadcasting system. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Would it be possible for the opening of boxes from constituencies affected by island voting to be moved to 11 a.m. and those from other constituencies would be opened starting at 9 a.m. or do they all have to be started at the same time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We will be drafting a report on it, so we can make recommendations within that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We will forward the report to the Department. We can work on the matter as a committee. Is that agreeable to the Deputies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Has Deputy Ó Cuív further questions for Ms Ní Fhlanghaile?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Similar to plebiscites that are held by local authorities regarding parking displays and so on, perhaps something could be done in that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We can ask it to appear before us if the Deputy would like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We can draft a report on this matter and include some of Deputy Ó Cuív's recommendations. Is he proposing that we hold a further meeting on this or can we proceed with our report and have those recommendations in place?