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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: On the issue of accountability, to return to the LAGS and the acquisition of land, I will give two examples. Naas Town Council acquired 5 h of land for over €8 million, which works out at around €2 million per hectare. Likewise, Cork County Council acquired land at a cost of over €700,000 per hectare in 2001. There did not appear to be any accountability at that stage....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: On Irish Water and sewerage treatment, over 500 facilities built in the 2000 to 2008 period are not up to scratch from an environmental point of view and from the process that is in place. What is planned to get all of those facilities up to a proper standard? Local authorities have refused to take over estates until Irish Water takes over sewerage treatment plants but Irish Water is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: I want to go back to the issue I raised earlier. It is not on the agenda for today but is an important issue. We have many housing estates, some built more than 20 years ago, which local authorities will not take in charge. Roads and footpaths are in poor condition. The reason local authorities will not take them in charge is Irish Water has not taken in charge the sewage treatment plants...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: There are 50 alone in County Cork.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Whether it is 450 or 500, it is still-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: It is still a very big number.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Can the Department not set out a clear plan with Irish Water whereby we have a target for each year of getting 40 or 50 off the system and taking them in charge? The estates are left there. Local authorities will not touch them. We are 20 years on in many of those housing estates and people are getting frustrated. They pay property tax and feel they get nothing back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Mr. Doyle might come back to me in the new year with a report and plan on dealing with this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Regarding taking charge of estates by local authorities where there is not a problem with Irish Water or an excuse, again the programme by local authorities seems to be going at a snail’s pace. They say they need to upgrade the estates before taking them in charge. What is the plan for that over the next two to three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Thanks very much.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking the Minister for Health to initiate a health technology assessment for an RSV vaccine following recent National Immunisation Advisory Committee, NIAC, approval, particularly in light of the large increase of hospital admissions of patients with respiratory infections. Respiratory viruses are reportable since 2012 and the figures are frightening. Last year, for the 2022-23 winter...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for a comprehensive reply. As he noted, there were 370 admitted to hospital in the last few days of November and early December and for the week ending 9 December there were 335 admissions. That is a huge demand on our health service. Therefore, everyone will agree at this stage that we need to identify the best way forward with the use of these vaccines and...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what options are under consideration by the Government to help energy intensive industries with energy costs following his decision to join the governments of Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland and The Netherlands in asking the EU Commission that the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework not be extended beyond 31 December 2023....
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government’s response to the European Commission proposal to extend the crisis element of the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework to 31 March 2024, at the request of the German and French governments. [55464/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many companies based in Ireland have availed of the support under section 2.4 of the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, and the amounts involved. [55465/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department would consider supporting energy intensive industries in quarter 1 2024 using the crisis provisions of the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, despite the joint letter signed by the Minister asking that said provision not be extended beyond 31 December 2023. [55466/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline in detail the progress that his Department has made to date, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, in the creation of a national biomethane development strategy plan through the new built environment and heat delivery task force; when it is envisaged that this strategy will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to reduce the timeline from when livestock in a herd have been tested and identified positive with tuberculosis and when these animals are removed from the herd, in view that the current average timeline is 17.3 calendar days from the date of test to the date of removal; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm what his Department’s plans are to recruit and retain childcare workers in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55729/23]