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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Mr. McCarthy has made the point about areas that have required major regeneration. I put it to Mr. McCarthy - and during my time on the council I continually made this point - that if the ancillary facilities were built at the get go when creating the communities in which we live, we would not experience half of the social problems that come down the line later on. Local government has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Are those 700 sites State-owned parcels of land?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: I know we do not have landbanks. We have the one, to which I referred, where the 42 units are being built. There are 85,000 people in the county on the waiting list, and a huge number of these, nearly 5,000 people, are in my home town. How is the Department assisting councils in the acquisition of land?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Okay. That is something I am aware of in the context of my county. I do not wish to delay the witness here but I would like to re-engage with Mr. McCarthy on the matter. With regard to the cost of the refurbishment, there is a breakdown of 5,714 homes in 2016, and 2,300 of the homes are refurbishments, which is a very significant number. These are homes that were already in our existing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: What was the total spend?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: €34.79 million for those 2,300 refurbishments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: It is massive money-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: ----- on housing stock that we already own and are refurbishing. This is not an indictment. This is frustrating for Mr. McCarthy as it is for every public representative. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien spoke to the Comptroller and Auditor General about signing over the HAP figures. This is a serious amount of money that we are spending - €35 million - on refurbishments. I am sure Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: As it is 5.52 p.m., I will try to be helpful. What is the up-to-date position on the office of the planning regulator?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Where is it at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Will the national planning framework, NPF, also come under this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Is this legislation responsible for tomorrow's publication of the draft Meath development plan being postponed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: There is no instruction-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: ----- from the Department to the director of planning or the chief executive to postpone publication, which has been postponed from tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: The circular that has been circulated to the councillors refers to the interaction with the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: It was on a sound statutory footing to go ahead and publish that plan. This plan has been in preparation since the autumn of 2016 and has involved a huge number of stakeholders and statutory public consultation. It is extremely important for the development of one of the biggest counties outside Dublin, and just this week with 48 hours' notice, it has been postponed. Mr. Walsh is telling...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: There was no advice to Meath County Council to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Shane Cassells: I find it very strange that the chief executive and the director of planning would pull the plan which had been due for publication tomorrow. There are 40 elected members who are extremely concerned for the lives of the 200,000 people that this impacts. This would offer the county a chance to thrive economically. This is as a result, as Mr. McCarthy has said, of this legislation having...