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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Mr. McGarvey and Mr. Kelly wish to make points as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: I will ask a couple of follow-on questions. Will the witnesses talk me through the process from when the Housing Agency approves a figure for a certain fix in terms of threshold damage and so on to when the house is completed? At what point does the drawdown occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Presumably, if there are to be 50 completions by year’s end and 18 are fully done, 32 projects are currently underway on site.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: It is just the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Of course. What about the drawdown? There is a discrepancy between it and the number of approvals. I understand that. The same situation obtains in terms of the vacant property refurbishment grant. The money has been committed and approved and the drawdown only comes once the project has been completed. In this case, though, there is also drawdown throughout the process. It does not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: How often do we make “stage payments” in a typical build?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Give us a working example of that. Notwithstanding the fact that people speak to one another and there are campaign groups involved in the process, there are many who are outside the process and not as heavily engaged but who still have problems and want to hear what is there for them. Not everyone listens to the radio, watches the television or reads the newspaper.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Is Mr. McGarvey satisfied that the process is working?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: What does this look like?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: If people can get invoices upfront for the costs of accommodation they will occupy, the council will process them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: That would be a committed-to cost. Someone would have entered into a lease arrangement, per se, and would have an invoice for the cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: Yes, and this is helpful because it is an example of how the council is adapting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)
John Cummins: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 May 2024)
John Cummins: As a former teacher, I am sure the teacher is probably not best pleased with that. The students are probably happy. I thank the Minister of State for taking this Commencement matter. Like the Minister of State, I am extremely passionate about the need for a new purpose-built multidisciplinary early intervention and respite care centre for children with complex additional needs on the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 May 2024)
John Cummins: I am disappointed with the response but I know the Minister of State gets under the hood of things and clearly, we need to get under the hood of what has been going on here. To go from procuring a design team in 2021 to only having stage 1 completed in quarter 3 of 2023, when construction was due to commence in 2023, does not tally. Questions have to be asked of HSE estates. What has...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 May 2024)
John Cummins: She was not given much to respond on in any case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)
John Cummins: I thank the witnesses for attending. They are the experts and we are the politicians, so the questions I am going to put forward will be in layman's terms. I have looked at the area of timber construction and nearly 90% of new-build construction in Scotland, whose climate is not too dissimilar to our own, is timber based, and it has gone higher than the 11 m that has been mentioned. Are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)
John Cummins: What about the higher rise element of that? This goes to the point Deputy Ó Broin made about the guidance, notwithstanding the ability to be able to go through first principles.