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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: Okay. I would prefer to see it going even higher again but that is another argument. I want to go back to both the LDA and the local authorities. Is the figure for Part 5 affordable housing, which was introduced in 2022, in any of the stats put before us today? Is it part of the figures that have been presented today? Regarding the LDA, Mr. Coleman has shown a huge pipeline of work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I also asked about Part 5.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I have just one-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I thank everyone for their presentations on what was a topical conversation today on affordable housing. I cannot stress enough the importance of home ownership, the security that brings to a family and the impact it has on the community in which they are involved. It is a piece we have sort of left behind for the last decade. I am not picking specifically on the Department, but its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for the presentations. I will start with questions for the Irish Council for Social Housing. What we are talking about here is affordable housing. We are either talking about affordable purchase homes or cost-rental homes, which are basically for long-term tenure. I know the organisation is playing a significant role in relation to the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I thank Professor Norris. Turning to Mr. Turnbull, he has tuned in, so I will ask him a quick question. Different models across Europe were mentioned that provide mechanisms to purchase homes. He mentioned one - it might have been in Sweden or one of the Nordics - where the land was provided free. Has a comparison been made of the shared equity scheme here with any of those models? I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Casey: Turning to Professor Norris, I fully agree with her regarding the income limits. We definitely need to address that aspect. On her comments concerning the LDA and its negotiations with other State bodies about securing land, has progress actually been made? Mr. Coleman has given us an overview of what his agency has achieved since June 2025, referring to sites being secured for 800 homes,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: For the information of the House, while Wicklow can be considered the youngest county or the last county to be created in 1606, when it comes to the investment in public transport infrastructure, we are definitely the last county to be considered. I look on with a bit of jealousy as the Deputy Leader sits there, because when it comes to the national rail review, I hear discussions about...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: Now.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: Now.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: Now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: I thank both bodies for their contributions today. I will start with Uisce Éireann. On a positive note, living in Wicklow, I live beside Vartry and I have seen the huge investment in the water mains distribution and the plant itself. More importantly for Wicklow, I was with Mr. Gleeson when we opened the new wastewater treatment plant in Arklow. As has been said, that was based on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: Is ESB Networks consulted during the county development plan process on where residential developments are being located and whether or not the infrastructure is there, similar to what Irish Water goes through?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: In a county development plan, it is clearly indicated if water and wastewater infrastructure is available but that is not the case for power. Can that be worked on? On Irish Water and developer-led investment, we have to learn from our history. Garden Village in Newtownmountkennedy is an absolute disaster. It was left behind. We cannot go back to that. Equally, we have seen the reverse...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: Data centres were mentioned; there was a successful launch of data centre in Arklow recently. I think it was the first time a licence was issued in almost four years. Part of that licence agreement was the data centre could not take energy from the grid unless the grid had excess capacity. It was also obliged to provide the grid with capacity under time constraint. Can the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Casey: On capital investment, the witness said €10 billion was needed for 33,000 houses a year but only an additional €2 billion to build an extra 85,000 over five years. It would be great value for money - I am not complaining.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Casey: I thank the nominator and seconder for my six hours in the Chair today.

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Casey: Senators Cosgrove and Noonan propose to share time. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Casey: The Minister of State is okay for another while.