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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: I represent Dublin South-West, which is located in the area administered by South Dublin County Council and it has a social housing stock of approximately 10,000 houses. That can be replicated in every local authority area although the numbers would be different. Those 10,000 homes would comprise 10,000 individual customers with different accounts across the utility companies. I have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: The new ones.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: There is still a significant stock of homes from the 1970s and 1980s.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Is there a gain in that for a bulk buyer, in terms of the objective of all of us, from a carbon footprint point of view? If a local authority decided it was something it could do and get involved in, would there be a gain? It is not just about the best deals. It is about beginning a process of reducing energy use and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Things have changed. Ms MacEvilly referred to the customer, but she is wrong in this regard. Someone who rents a house, not from a local authority, approached me recently and asked whether rules could be brought in to obligate landlords to introduce the best energy technology in their home. He said he is very much in favour of doing what he can to reduce his carbon footprint but his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: There is nothing precluding bulk purchase, however.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 670. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be awarded a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54518/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (15 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 986. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the perceived breakdown of the complaints system in Tusla; if her attention has been further drawn to a person (details supplied) that requested an independent review of a complaint in January 2018; if the reason for the breakdown in the complaints system will be investigated; if the review process will...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the pending introduction of a requirement of customs officials and airport police to be searched as a matter of routine when they enter and exit airport facilities and when they are entering and exiting different areas within the airport campus itself including from airside to landside; and if he will make a statement on...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their service. This is the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and we are entitled to slightly more detailed responses to some of the questions put by some of the previous speakers. Let us look at a summary of the criticism of the Minister's budget. Some of the critiques have been mentioned. It was premised on the idea of an orderly Brexit. It is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: IFAC made the-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: We will have another round as well. In fact, the IFAC made the point that the Minister committed to budget surpluses in 2016 for 2018 and in 2017 for 2019 so it is not my assertion. None of the assertions I made is personal. They are all from the reports of the PBO, the Governor of the Central Bank and IFAC. This is not a political charge as this is the Committee on Budgetary Oversight....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: I accept that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: The Minister said in any one year.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the perceived disproportionate and deadly response to the peaceful protests by tens of thousands of Sudanese by the Sudanese Government will be unreservedly condemned. [2140/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the relationship with the Al-Bashir regime will be reconsidered in view of its diplomatic ties in Dublin; and if the Ambassador of Sudan (details supplied) will be declared a persona non grata. [2141/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request the European Union to take a stronger stance on the ongoing oppression in Sudan. [2142/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the other actions that could stop the regime in Sudan from using violence against unarmed civilians. [2143/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (17 Jan 2019)
John Lahart: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to help in treatment and rehabilitation of torture victims. [2144/19]