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Other Questions: Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which discussions have been entered into with the various local authorities with a view to providing rapid-build or modular housing for sale or rent to suitably qualified persons including those on the local authority housing list and others who marginally failed to qualify for local authority loans or...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: This question relates to the extent to which the Minister and his officials engage with the various local authorities with a view to identifying specific objectives in the shortest possible time. I welcome the Rebuilding Ireland proposals, the housing programme in general and the funding for it, but the most serious problem that exists is the problem now. It is an imminent problem, hence...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the progress to date. However, there is another issue, as I see it. There is a multiplicity of housing bodies - voluntary bodies, approved housing bodies, charitable bodies - all vying with one another to supply the housing market. To my mind, they are competing and obstructing one another because they are in the same place at the same time, increasing the cost of housing because...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister's ambitious plans and I have no doubt but that he will see them through, and it is in everyone's interest that he does so. Each local authority, with particular reference to the numbers on the local authority housing waiting lists, needs to be asked the simple question, how quickly can it deliver, and how many units can it deliver in the shortest possible time? The...

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We all agree regional planning is of the utmost importance. It has become more and more important as time goes by. It is true the country has developed in a haphazard way with Dublin spreading out gradually into the country so much that perhaps in 100 years' time it will have spread to the rest of the country. We have to counter that. I agree entirely with the people who have already said...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Yesterday, I raised the Central Bank (Consolidation) Bill, which I believe is the appropriate vehicle to discuss some of the issues that others in the House have raised. It will cover the activities of third-party lenders that have acquired distressed mortgages from businesspeople, householders and a multitude of people who are now being subjected to appalling pressure by people who call...

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: It is good practice to address colleagues in the House by their official titles.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I must ask the Deputy to adjourn the debate.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: No.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Another five minutes, and we will give the Deputy an extra half minute for good behaviour.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Once voice. We cannot have that.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We cannot have that.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: There will be another time for that.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: There is a tendency to engage in cross-party dialogue but we cannot have it now.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: One speaker.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: There is to be no dialogue.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy should not encourage it.

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Next is Deputy Maria Bailey. I understand she intends to share time with the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Phelan.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if instructions can be given to the local authorities to reintroduce the provision of specific isolated housing in rural areas for suitably qualified persons already on local authority housing lists or otherwise qualified; if the development of privately serviced sites can be undertaken in either urban or rural areas by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 10 October 2017, if a medical card will cover payment for concessionary school transport offered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45441/17]