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- Committee on Public Petitions: Promoting Awareness of the Public Petitions Process: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: Things that happen in the Parliament can have an impact on people's lives and I am wondering if the services of these Houses could liaise with the CIS to make sure that any potential impacts are clearly understood by the general public.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Promoting Awareness of the Public Petitions Process: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: Ms Black mentioned the team that is in place for mortgage arrears. It is a sensitive subject and I do not want her to breach any confidentiality. From her engagement with the public in the course of recent years, how are people being treated by the financial institutions and what type of queries are they coming to her with? There is both factual and anecdotal information in terms of how...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 44. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in place to enable Our Lady's Hospital, Navan to carry out more scheduled treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12096/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 49. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a regional hospital in Navan. [12097/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (7 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of his plan, which he announced as part of his 2017 budget speech, to extend mortgage interest relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11860/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes (7 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 378. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the policy in her Department of excluding equine-based or equine-related projects from assistance or financial support through the Leader programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11325/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will schedule a person (details supplied) for a procedure without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11198/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I thank the Chair. I welcome Mr. John McCarthy and his staff. Mr. McCarthy covered a huge amount in his opening statement. He began by talking about housing so I will start there as well if that is okay. Chapter 5 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2015 report relates to progress on land aggregation. In layman's terms, it sets out the progress that is being made with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Why were there delays from 2014 until 2016, given that the scheme closed in December 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I presume the councils that acquired these landbanks did so for the purpose of providing housing. They would have had conceptual schemes or detailed schemes in place for these landbanks at the time of their acquisition under this scheme. Given the seriousness of the situation, why has there been a three-year delay with the progress of these sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. Can I ask a straight question on these sites? Is the Department reticent to develop council estates again? Does the Housing Agency have an ideological issue with the construction of State-owned county council estates of approximately 200 houses? I am asking Mr. McCarthy whether such an ideological barrier exists on the part of the Department or of the Housing Agency. Some of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. I am asking whether the day of council housing estates has gone, from the Department's point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I know, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. Will we see council estates constructed on the landbanks that are now under the remit of the Department, having been acquired under the land aggregation scheme? How will the landbanks be progressed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The 28-acre site in my home town is draining resources out of the council. Is the Department prepared to fund that scheme as an actual housing estate? There are 28 acres there. That would provide a very good amount of houses for the 1,500 people on the housing waiting list in my town and the 5,000 people that are on a housing waiting list in County Meath.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The Department has owned it for more than ten years. It is still green grass. Very quickly----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: It has. The funny thing about it is - this is an issue for all Deputies - that there is no abundance of publicly-owned lands within councils. That is one of the biggest problems. In County Meath, that is the only piece of land of a substantial nature that is in public ownership for social housing in a county of 180,000 people. That 28 acres is the only piece of publicly-owned land in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. How come the agency does not record that it has an asset?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The agency is recording these lands as an asset. There are 610 acres.