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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I will make it quick. Reference was made to local area plans. I have a specific question relating to Citywest. What if the local area plan is hopelessly out of date? In the Citywest area there was a local area plan dating from 2012. It never envisaged the density that has been applied for under the strategic housing development process. Now we have multiple planning applications for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I know the Tánaiste has other matters on his mind today but this needs to be reinforced. Deputies have mentioned motor, business and commercial residential insurance. This is beginning to bite in community facilities. The Minister, my constituency colleague, Deputy Zappone, will also know that Fettercairn Youth Horse Project has seen its public liability insurance rise to...

Social Welfare Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I wish to share time with Deputy Scanlon. Fianna Fáil will support the Bill, the purpose of which is to provide for the introduction of a new social insurance scheme to provide jobseeker's benefit for the self-employed. It will be payable to individuals who lose their self-employment and have the required number of PRSI contributions to qualify for payment. Fianna Fáil has...

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: They might be.

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. It is a much more difficult task to have a go at him because his personality absorbs these kinds of things seamlessly.

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: We are depending on the Minister of State to pass on our comments to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. As my colleague, Deputy MacSharry, has said, the context for this debate is the worsening congestion in Dublin. As my party's Dublin spokesperson, I am conscious that congestion in the city is increasing on a daily and weekly basis. As the Minister of State is aware, Dublin...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: We know that fast-track planning is not delivering what it was intended to deliver, namely, houses for people. We know the strategic housing development, SHD, process is being used by speculators to avoid local area plans and county development plans and to lodge massive density applications with no amenities for local people. It is leading to a splurge of high-density, co-living, student...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (15 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the grounds and protocols on which home support hours are allocated. [41930/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: My colleagues have raised some themes that I will be referring to myself. I wanted to raise four points. One arises from my role on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and some of the common themes that have come forward there. The second point arises from my role as spokesperson for Dublin and Dublin transport and relates to some of the aspects of the budget that are especially...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, is next, and he will be sharing time.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I would share the Chair with the Deputy but I cannot see him taking it.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: The next speaker is Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick. Is the Deputy sharing time?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to reduce waiting times for an outpatient appointment in Tallaght hospital in which the numbers waiting over a year have seen a more than four-fold increase since the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on out of country placements (details supplied) for deaf persons in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (8 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if assurances are in place that life insurance companies based in the UK will honour their policies in the event of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40909/19]

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: I join my colleagues in commending Deputy O'Callaghan for bringing this legislation forward. I wish to share with the House some correspondence that I entered into with the Garda Commissioner's office on foot of the Christchurch, New Zealand massacre regarding the use of semi-automatic weapons. I put down a few questions and got comprehensive replies. I asked initially when legislation was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: They are not homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

John Lahart: They are units.