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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I wish to provide clarification on foot of what has been said. As far as I understand the average household occupancy previously referred to by the CER was 2.6. A two-person household is more than accommodated, as is a three-person household and a four-person household. When one goes beyond that there is provision for clarification to be sought in the event of the use being over the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am very clear on it. The average number per household is four. If it is multiplied by 1.7, it brings the number up to 6.8. Therefore, a one-person household has a 6.8-person consumption level and all the way up. A family of eight can apply for an exemption based on the eighth person and get it. It is very simple. It is in somebody's interest to confuse us or try to generate some...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: It is stated in three or four places. It is in the proposed sections 53A(2)(b) and 53A(4)(b)(ii). The average usage figure is no longer 2.6. It is based on four persons. That is the instruction to the CER in the legislation. Is that correct? The multiple thereafter is 1.7, which results in the figure of 6.8. If the Deputy wants to confuse people or let them think the provision does not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am not going to get into an argument, as much as those concerned want me to do so to give the impression that people will get their cheques back or that they will not receive bills again in the future. If that is what they like some people to believe, that is their business. That is the audience to which they are playing. As far as I am concerned, however, the recommendation from the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: The bottom line.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I support this proposal, which is something I have raised with the Minister in the past. I had hoped he would bring forward his own proposal in this regard but, in the absence of such an amendment, what is proposed here is suitable. It allows almost for the full application of the confidence and supply arrangement in respect of Irish Water. The latter is without question a public utility...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: Will the Minister undertake to correspond with the committee as soon as is practically possible in order to allow us to consider the matter further in advance of Report Stage? If the Comptroller and Auditor General is adamant in his advice that the 1993 legislation will require amendment, I take it the Government will proceed with that approach in order to cater for what we are proposing...

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: P. O'Neill.

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: Mistrust.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: I am sharing time with my colleagues. I compliment Deputy Healy for having tabled the motion. Like all of us, he is obviously frustrated with the lack of progress we have seen in this area in recent years, despite the best intentions of many. I note in his motion the various references to the Constitution and to articles concerning the right to housing. The House agreed some weeks ago...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Loans (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the role his Department has in setting out the criteria for successful applicants to the recently announced Home Building Finance Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45248/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if funding given to approved housing bodies for building social housing is counted towards general government fixed capital formation estimated by the CSO for EUROSTAT. [44374/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Applications (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (24 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for departmental guidance on short-term letting planning permission and regulation requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45016/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Yield (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the local property tax revenue that is expected to accrue to local authorities on the basis of the phasing out of the exemptions in 2019 for properties purchased in 2013 and for new and previously unused properties purchased from a builder or developer between 1 January 2013 and 31 October 2019. [44372/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Yield (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenues lost due to all exemptions to the local property tax. [44373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, ISIF or another body under its aegis has received an ex-ante position from EUROSTAT on its plans to invest in the home building finance Ireland SPV. [44375/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA will charge a service fee to home building finance Ireland for use of its expertise in residential development funding. [44376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications that have been processed to date via the strategic housing development planning applications; and the number of refusals. [44377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the national policy objective 3b from the national planning framework; if this means that 50% of development in the greater Dublin region would have to happen in Dublin city and suburbs or County Dublin; and if it could also occur in urban areas in surrounding counties. [44378/17]