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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I will not say that, if the Minister stops saying the other.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: They are not. They do not have the resources to fight the case. The Minister and I both know it and he should admit it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: How many derelict site orders were initiated by local authorities in the past ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: If the Minister gets the figure, and asks local authorities why they did not pursue them, they will tell him they do not have the resources to pursue them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Sorry, will the Minister tell the committee why it has not worked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why did it take seven week to tell UCD that, if the guidelines were so clear?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: The Minister just said that the guidelines are clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: It did. Why does it take seven weeks for UCD to be told that the application failed, when this was a process that was supposed to bypass an eight week process, that would happen if the application had been made to the local authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: There are other applications. The Irish Independent quotes two or three other cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why is it taking so long?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why is it taking so long for An Bord Pleanála to tell the applicants? The Minister should know. He should ask those questions. The Minister should be able to tell us so that we could rectify it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I am making the assertion as did Senator Boyhan, that it is a staffing, a funding and resource issue. Can the Minister deny that?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: 38. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which it is proposed to reduce the long waiting times being experienced by children in counties Laois and Offaly that are in need of an assessment for occupational therapy. [40972/17]
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: That is a matter of opinion.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Is the Deputy?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Beyond the average.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Does Deputy O'Sullivan know what the average is? She does not even know what the average is.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: The Labour Party is not a principled, left-wing party.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Five-person households.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: How many in the house-----