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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: On a point of order, is that a specific reference to what I said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Let me be very clear. Everybody else has raised the same issues as me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I hope that the Chairman did not criticise me specifically.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Chairman for her leniency. The job of a Chairman is to allow members to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Chairperson or Chairwoman. I do not mind using any title. I do not want to offend anybody by not using the correct title. The job of this committee is to articular our views. The job of any Chairperson, Chairwoman or Chairman is to facilitate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Chairperson. I have made my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Working with local authorities. I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: With respect, some actually do. I appreciate that Mr. Brennan is giving his opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: So the approved housing body will not. That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not disagree with Mr. Coyle, but it is working and the houses are occupied now whereas they were not a year ago. That is my point. I accept all of the issues that Mr. Coyle has properly raised and Oaklee Housing is doing an excellent job in County Louth, where it has transformed areas where houses had actually been burned out and left derelict. That is the future, but doing that work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (5 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 181. To ask the Minister for Health further to the meeting that took place on 6 December 2016 with a person (details supplied), if he will contact the person directly and outline the steps that have been taken since the meeting took place in relation to the primary medical certificate assessment criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31663/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (5 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the case of a person (detail supplied) who has had a carer's allowance withdrawn. [31637/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (5 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31644/17]

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is a very important debate and I regret that the time is very short. It is not acceptable that some speakers have only six minutes and others three. This House must change, as our policies must change. I welcome the new Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and his initiatives. I hope he will be able to support the views I express. We must be practical. It is...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I did not interrupt the Deputy. It does not support those people who need to get into the empty homes around the country.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am making it absolutely crystal clear that we need action on the empty homes. In Dublin alone there are over 30,000 empty homes. I know hundreds of them. I see them every day. They are empty, boarded up and families are camping outside local authority housing offices waiting to get in. Families living in cars is a shame and a disgrace. What do we do? What is the practical solution?...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: He got an ice axe to the head.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Centres (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider reopening the Kiltyclogher heritage centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31858/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in a newspaper (details supplied); if he will intervene and reverse the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31873/17]