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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is more than sufficient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: That is very diplomatic. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I am not sure if the witnesses are going to shock Deputy Flaherty with their innate knowledge of Longford.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Deputy Ó Murchú has been very patient. I will hand over to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Very briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: In order to address Mr. Cuddy's ask, we will look at other areas where he believes flushing is required and provide a comment on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: The connections policy and the charges in place from the CRU were touched on. In framing my question, I am conscious that Irish Water would not want to deny itself a revenue stream. The difficulty I have is not with connection charges for greenfield sites or the infrastructure that has to be put in place, but more with the charges for brownfield sites and urban renewal spaces. Thankfully,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Where flexibility is allowed, I ask that it be applied because we want to regenerate existing units and bring them back into productive use. When people are willing to do that and put their money into it, they should not be penalised for doing so. If the representatives could ask the committee to include two things in a report on water quality to help them in their work, what would they be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Mr. Laffey may have something to add.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: We need streamlining of the process, notwithstanding the constraints that are there. That is understood. I thank the members and witnesses for their attendance. It was a constructive meeting that will feed into our report on water quality. I also thank the witnesses from the EPA who attended earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I thank our guests from both local authorities for attending. My first questions, relating to activating vacant properties, are for Mr. Curran and Mr. Keegan. How many units has their council delivered under the buy-and-renew scheme to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What about Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: What are the councils' targets for the period 2022 to 2026?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: Are the 60 to which Mr. O'Reilly referred the target for buy-and-renew for the next four years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: The council's housing delivery action plan referred to 97, so the actual figure in the background is much higher than the target in the plan, which is very good to hear. I ask the same question of Mr. Curran.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
John Cummins: I saw that in the council's plan. Is that ambitious enough, notwithstanding the fact there is a low vacancy rate in the council's local authority area?