Results 861-880 of 2,018 for speaker:Pat Casey
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: Now it is nearly 13 years under Fine Gael.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: I will bring in the representatives starting with those representing Galway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: We will do that. In the context of local authority voids, has any local authority sold its stock of housing because the cost of refurbishment was excessive, or because of a lack of funding from Central Government to bring houses back into use? Galway City Council is represented today and Deputy Anne Rabbitte was in my ear last night about the difference in the qualification thresholds for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: I thank all the witnesses for their attendance and engagement with the committee. We will acknowledge all of the opening statements and take them into account.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: The majority of people here are not against this concept. We are all in favour of it. We have worked positively on all legislation that has come through here. This legislation came to us on Tuesday night and this is the first time that we have seen the detail that we are being asked to agree. The Government introduced 71 amendments on Report Stage of the Planning and Development...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: Will it include the rural areas that do not form part of the town, if the Minister of State knows what I mean?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: I may not make it next Tuesday.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: Maybe we can thrash this out later. I am still not fully clear at what level this new urban area plan is going to be and who adopts it at the end of the day. If it is a local area plan which sits under the county development plan, it goes for only one period of public consultation and is then adopted. An environs plan is like a county plan. The variations are made and it is put on public...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: He will be doing a lot of grinding now.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Roads Maintenance (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: Deputy Breathnach has raised most of the issues. We have all seen practical examples, despite all the technology used now, where the system has failed road users on certain mornings. The Minister is very familiar with the N11, which we often see being gritted in the evening and late into the night. However, we have had significant rainfall overnight recently and a refreeze but at that...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Roads Maintenance (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for his reply. He acknowledged that this is a positive engagement, not a criticism, as we hit the winter season. It concerns all road users that the roads are gritted as much as possible. The area that is always left in abeyance is the local roads. We all know that some of our local roads are the most dangerous roads. There is no clear policy across local authorities...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland increases its diplomatic efforts through the EU to ensure the peace in South Sudan deal holds; his further plans to continue to support the humanitarian efforts in South Sudan that are addressing the root causes of the conflict and to fund and support the conflict resolution and peace building efforts at...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised human rights abuses in Turkey such as the case of a person (details supplied) imprisoned without due process at EU level and directly with the Turkish embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52189/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will raise matters concerning a fishing vessel (details supplied) with his German counterpart in view of errors in a stability book issued by a German classification society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51924/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has raised issues concerning a fishing boat (details supplied) with his German counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51927/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 453. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Marine Survey Office advised the committee on safe seas of possible dangers that nine fishing boats registered under EU flags may have the same or similar stability issues as an Irish fishing boat (details supplied); if the Marine Survey Office ascertained if the member states affected had been advised of same; if so, the...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (11 Dec 2018)
Pat Casey: 454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Marine Survey Office did not follow up on a matter (details supplied) with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51926/18]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018) Pat Casey: I am sorry I was late. Regarding hubs, how many is it hoped to provide with the additional funding for social housing? On accelerating the delivery of social housing, how many schemes is it envisaged will be delivered in 2018 and how many units will they deliver in total?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018) Pat Casey: On the delivery of social housing projects, how many projects are there and how many units is it hoped to deliver by the end of 2018?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2018) Pat Casey: How many hubs is it hoped will result from the extra funding?