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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: The independent review has given a synopses of the situation. That is why we have increased the amount of resources allocated to the board and increased the 2018 budget. As things stands, €16.7 million will be allocated to An Bord Pleanála in 2018. There was a question about a regulator. As members will know, the scheme has not been set up so the cost allocated for this year...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (15 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 175. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [48414/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: I will be very brief because I do not want to go over what has already been said and well articulated by various speakers. The greatest crisis facing the country at present from a social and economic respective is housing. Councillor Owens and Deputy Cassells have made very pertinent comments. There is a feeling out there that local authorities are not building in the way in which they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken arising from recommendations of a review (details supplied) of homelessness services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47549/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: This brings to a conclusion what has been a contentious matter over the past number of years when a Labour Party-Fine Gael Government implemented a water charge regime. It not only implemented it but railroaded it through the house.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Deputy O'Sullivan might allow a bit of space and time to listen. She might not like what she hears but, despite the fact that I have said it on numerous occasions, it has to be said again.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: In government, the Labour Party and Fine Gael implemented a botched regime. They did not just implement it but railroaded it through the House without due consideration or due deference to other Members during the passage of various legislation associated with the implementation of charges. They guillotined legislation and led the House down a path where it was not properly abreast of...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: -----and the harm associated with it. After the last election we embarked on a process that would seek to resolve the mess that they created. It was not easy and there were other more pressing issues to be dealt with. However, as I said last night, a Government needed to be formed in order to bring some stability to the nation and, as convoluted as the numbers might have been, give...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Thankfully, after today I will. This legislation is a result of the process we, with Fine Gael, put in place. In the first instance, a committee of experts sought to make recommendations on how water services would be funded in the future. That in turn fed into an all-party committee, of which Deputy Jan O'Sullivan and others were part, and this committee in turn made recommendations by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 142. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [47158/17]

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “notes:— the disturbing evidence of gross breaches of minimum standards regulations in the private rental sector uncovered by the RTÉ Investigates documentary ‘Nightmare to Let’; — that according to the National Oversight and Audit...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: One would not want to rush it.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Amendment No. 34, in the name of Deputy Catherine Murphy, was one of the better and more obvious amendments. I supported it on Committee Stage, but withheld my support on foot of the commitment of the Minister to refer to Government with a view to elaborating on the contention that, for this to be the case, it would require an amendment to the Comptroller and Auditor General Act rather than...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: It was the personal nature of the comments from the Deputy across the Chamber.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: We are talking about it for 18 months and getting a result. That is more than Sinn Féin ever got.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: If the Deputy is trying to bait me, he is doing a good job.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: I do not see that in the Deputy's amendment.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: The Deputy should speak to the one to which he is supposed to be speaking instead of trying to take swipes at me.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: General Government Debt (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 88. To ask the Taoiseach the estimates for the potential change to the general government deficit and debt of the reclassification of approved housing bodies from non-profit to general government under the European system of accounts (details supplied). [47133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (7 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of investments made in the area of social and affordable housing by investors under the immigration investor programme since 2012; and his views on whether the doubling of the applications threshold from €500,000 to €1 million in 2017 will deprive the State of investment in social housing...