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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 741. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the continued use of the Lourdes laundry attached to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth; the Health Service Executive's plans for keeping it open; the reassurances that can be offered by the Health Service Executive to the staff employed there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13508/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I apologise for being late. It has been a very interesting debate, the part of it that I have heard. Obviously, the crisis exists but we have the land, the capacity to build, we have people who want to move into the houses and different ways of finding the finance, some which will work and some which will not. It seems the best thing to do is to get all the heads and all the expertise...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: How hard are we pushing it in terms of going after the international investment funds for housing? Is the ISIF following that up?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Is there joined-up thinking between the ISIF and the aforementioned two Departments? Representatives from the relevant agencies have all been before this committee and they are very focused on the issue but is there a structured relationship between the ISIF and the Departments?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Is there a common organisation? If not, would it make sense to have a cross-agency, cross-departmental committee meeting regularly to push the various ideas forward?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Dr. Lyons’s thought-provoking analysis, much of which I agree with. What happened during the boom was that people in construction made a fortune and the system allowed it to happen. Everyone was happy, except the person who was paying a mortgage or who could not get a house. State-owned lands, as well as those owned by local authorities, semi-State companies such as Irish...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I apologise, as I was obliged to leave the meeting earlier. The witnesses have used powerful language because they have brought home to me and to all members how serious an issue this is. On the statistics provided, I believe Ms Fiona Ryan stated one in seven women in a relationship with experience physical violence. I find that to be absolutely shocking, as I did not think the figures...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is not a laughing matter; it is a serious issue. Ms Ryan mentioned Tusla and so on and, in the past, I have been interested in the Tusla reports from the Louth-Meath area about family dysfunction and the huge complexity of problems that arise. Obviously, if a family or a relationship is in difficulty, it has a highly negative impact on everybody, but in particular on the children and...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Sonas (31 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is enough.

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is a welcome and timely debate. I fully agree with the motion. If we can all sign up to changes and if we can sign up to a ten-year plan or a plan of whatever length in terms of the cycle of change, I do not have a problem but the changes I would like to see would not take ten years. They would not take ten days, if we attach the importance to them that we should. The HSE is an...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not mind. I am happy that it happened. I welcome it. It is a positive, constructive appointment to the Seanad and it is essential in terms of informing our thinking. We need to articulate their needs on a national level. Returning to the wonderful HSE, it is more a hide and seek than a HSE. For two years, I have been trying to get at the facts regarding a death in County Louth and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 285. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to issues raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the reconfiguration of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14081/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated in County Louth for tourism under Fáilte Ireland's Ancient East initiative; the consultation that has taken place in County Louth on this initiative; the amounts sought and amounts allocated; if it is possible to apply for further project support; the conditions attached to same; and if he will...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister. I also welcome his commitment to the significant changes needed and, in that context, the fact that he is gathering around him a team of experts from inside and outside his Department. We previously experienced a huge housing crisis in the 1970s. Are there staff in the Department who were involved in drafting the huge housing programme introduced when Mr. Tully was...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a fact. I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Chairman ask Deputy Ruth Coppinger, my close-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a fact, actually.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, 2,500 was the total number taken up from 6,000. Those are the facts and they do not suit Deputy Coppinger's narrative. I am sorry if they do not.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: If the Deputy wishes to speak for me, maybe-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The witness for the prosecution is beside me, I am afraid. I am trying to provide an adequate and proper defence, rebuttal and attack.