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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: How many were there in total in the scheme when it was first initiated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: Thirty nationwide. Two pieces of infrastructure are under construction to enable work on the landbanks.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: How many are at planning stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: Six hundred on the two that have commenced.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: I have a final question for Mr. John McCarthy, on land acquisition. Through the land aggregation, LAG, scheme, the Department is dealing with a series of bad land deals. Notwithstanding that, there is a definitive need for land acquisition in certain counties, especially the commuter counties. Mr. John McCarthy was kind enough to supply a table on what is in council ownership throughout...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is it 700 in local authority ownership or in State ownership?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate it is very difficult for the departmental officials once the State enters the market in terms of the price and the acquisition. Are directors of housing looking at possible existing land banks? Is preliminary work done with departmental officials to identify if it is something that could be progressed?

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am delighted to contribute to the debate. I pay tribute to the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward these proposals. They are well thought out and touch on a number of important issues, including Irish Water not addressing the problems of wastewater in our housing estates, which heretofore would have been assisted by the county councils. If one speaks to any county councillor or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if system testing was carried out on the new information technology system for illness benefit; if so, the person or body that carried out the system testing; the reason the recent issues with the new system were not identified during the testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a back-up system or alternative plan was in place for the changeover to the new information technology system for illness benefit in case of potential difficulties arising; if so, the reason it was not able to alleviate the issues which occurred with the new system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (7 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether there is a staffing crisis in the early years sector; the steps she is taking to combat same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45932/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: It is Dublin and Dún Laoghaire today and a couple of weeks ago a significant number of education and training board accounts were presented on a particular slide, with the same recurring theme of poor controls. I noted a number of recurring cases. It was not once-off and it was across the board and a cultural occurrence. After five years, what is the opinion of the Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: The chief executive officers are telling the ETB boards of directors that they have problems. They are telling the Comptroller and Auditor General that they have problems and the Comptroller and Auditor General's reports tell us that as well. Who will eventually grapple with the problem of what is happening? These are major organisations in the delivery of education throughout our country....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: One might have thought the so-called merger of all these would have led to better scenarios rather than worse.

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am sharing time with Deputies Butler and Murphy O'Mahony.

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I thank Deputy Healy for bringing forward this Bill. It facilitates the debate which allows us to continue to focus on the housing crisis and the need for a range of measures across the State and the support agencies to tackle it. An emergency exists in the housing area as agreed by the House when it passed a Private Members’ motion declaring a housing emergency. However, the...

Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will share time with a number of my colleagues. I thank the Minister of State for the detail provided this evening. I am pleased to speak on the Bill and its implications. Any document that has at its heart the issue of boundaries will elicit much passion, interest and debate. Debates about boundaries in this country, whether they are international, as we see at present, or county...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries Review (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the statutory instrument giving effect to the recommendations in the reports of the local electoral area boundary committees will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Meetings (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supports will be provided to county councils to enable them to provide for webcasting of local authority meetings in circumstances in which such facilities do not exist in order to allow persons to view important proceedings on budgetary, planning, zoning and development plan matters to ensure full transparency in same....

Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Deputy was saying that he wants Drogheda to join County Meath.