Results 8,501-8,520 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is the most important point of all for the public.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry for being late. I believe the Residential Tenancies Board's duties have been expanded recently to cover local authority tenancies and I have a question on that matter. This is not a criticism of anybody. Some tenants in local authority estates have been causing very significant anti-social problems. It may be drugs, alcohol abuse or dysfunctional people. They are intractable...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have been informed that if there is a problem with a tenancy that was not resolved by the local authority, the Private Residential Tenancies Board could step in. Is that not correct?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: What if the case involves a private house owned by the local authority outside a local authority estate? Is there any role?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is some role.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is what it is.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. It is very important as the board can consider what the local authority is deemed not to have done.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The board may supervise the authority if it has not discharged its duties in dealing with an anti-social problem.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Could Ms Carroll send us a note on it?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, because it is important.

An Teanga Gaeilge: Statements (18 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Ba mhaith liom a rá i dtosach gur díospóireacht an-mhaith í seo. Molaim an méid daoine atá ag caint as Gaeilge, nó atá ag iarraidh níos mó Gaeilge a bheith acu. I mo thuairim, is í sin an bhunchloch. Ba cheart go mbeadh mórtas againn toisc go bhfuil iar-Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta, an Teachta McHugh, ag foghlaim na Gaeilge....

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Pavee Point (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome our speakers. I tabled a parliamentary question on funding for Travellers and I received a reply yesterday which may be of assistance. It indicates that the allocation for 2016 is €5.5 million, which is an increase of €1.2 million on the 2015 allocation. Obviously, that is a positive development. I requested details for each local authority from 2013 onward so the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The witnesses make a very compelling case, especially for the community they have built, the lives they have chosen and their success. I want to get this clear in my head. The party buying a house and renting it out, whether it is a vulture fund, a Deputy or Senator or a businessperson, can put an end to a contract provided that party indicates it is to sell the property, leaving a...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I know, but it cannot buy 300,000.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to make that proposal if it is in order to do so.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have no issue with that. I am just saying it cannot buy 300,000.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: If the Chairman could arrange that-----

Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (24 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister to the House and invite him to visit Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, at the first available opportunity. It is a very important major regional hospital in which there are serious industrial issues at the moment. I visited it this morning and the staff are extremely busy and extremely committed but the hospital is short 104 nurses who cannot be...

Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (24 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know.