Results 1,041-1,060 of 2,018 for speaker:Pat Casey
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Amendment No. 30 is on the same matter that we were trying to introduce and which we spoke about in private session, namely, capping it on the basis of a financial contribution. That option is still there, and while I know the Minister said it could not work, the home incentive scheme has worked quite well, where a list of permitted enabling works is given and a financial minimum that can be...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: I am just talking about the principle, I am not talking about-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 77, 86 to 135, inclusive, and Nos. 137 to 144, inclusive, are just including tenants.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Before I proceed, I wish to place on record the fact hat my family business in Glendalough has been used previously to house children in family homelessness. During my previous contribution on child and family homelessness in our Republic, I concluded by pleading to the Government to immediately declare homelessness a national emergency. Our homelessness national emergency needs a massive...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of ongoing actions regarding a service (details supplied) in Bray and Wicklow in view of the published failings in several HSE reports and inquiries; the way in which complaints by service users and their families have been dealt with; the nature and detail of consultation with the families of service users; the status of governance issues with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Performance Indictor Report: National Oversight and Audit Commission (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: I acknowledge the valuable work of the NOAC reports. I wish they were acted on more quickly than what they are. The commission has provided a significant database of information, which we are allowed to access and get a better understanding on the workings of the local authorities. On the specific area of commercial rates, NOAC states there is an improvement in the commercial rates...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Performance Indictor Report: National Oversight and Audit Commission (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: As there are no further questions, I thank the witnesses for attending and engaging with the committee. I propose we suspend the meeting briefly to allow the next witnesses to take their seats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members and visitors in the Public Gallery are requested to ensure that, for the duration of the meeting, their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on their devices. It is not sufficient to put phones on silent mode as that will maintain a level of interference with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Deputy O'Dowd is referring to a specific case. The witnesses do not have to answer that question because we are here to discuss the broader work done by the Local Government Audit Service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: It may not be appropriate for the witnesses to make any comment on this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Deputy O'Dowd is raising a particular case. We are here to deal with broader issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: We are not dealing with specific cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: There can be a question on the broader context but not on a specific case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: The witnesses may not have that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Nobody was aware this issue was to be raised today. We are here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: In fairness, this is a matter that is before the courts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Deputy O'Dowd is coming back to the individual case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: I look forward to hearing from Senator Boyhan now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Then they become Senators.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: If that report is sent to the secretariat, it can distribute it to all members. It is a valuable report.