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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (31 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 754. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the details of meetings she has had with promoters of a facility (details supplied); if she will elaborate on the financial, legal and logistical issues that have been alluded to in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 25 January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4515/17]

Establishment of Commission of Investigation into the Stardust Tragedy: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I welcome the family members of victims and survivors of the Stardust fire here and I commend my colleague, Deputy Broughan, on bringing forward this motion. As he indicated, it follows on from work carried out by serving and former Members of this House, including my colleague, Deputy Seán Haughey. There is almost a biblical quality to the pleadings of the families of the Stardust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I have a few comments, and I thank our guests for their comprehensive documents today, and their presentations. Ms Graham in her opening statement mentioned the initial set up of Irish Water and how it was envisaged that the utility would be a public utility, a State body in public ownership. Some of the contributions seem to suggest that all the problems around this emerged out of nothing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I do, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I will, yes, but other people have made statements. There was the speed with which it was set up, there was the Siteserv element. There were a number of issues, not least the guillotining of the debate about it, that have brought us here, unnecessarily to some degree. We are here because of all those missteps that were taken along the way, and I think, Cathaoirleach, that has to be borne...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I am coming to it now. The public ownership and the lack of confidence the public developed over time in Irish Water were key findings of the commission. That was not something created by the Opposition. It was created by the manner in which Irish Water conducted itself. My questions are these. Was the privatisation of water services ever agreed or discussed with the troika at any stage?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: Okay. Many of us who are old enough to remember the potential for constitutional amendments to defy the original intentions of their proponents. What kind of controls can be put in place to avoid a referendum result, and therefore decisions on water, eventually ending up being decisions of the Judiciary?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Sector (25 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the efforts being made by a company (details supplied) to establish a facility in Dublin; her views on whether the project is worth supporting; if so, her plans to advance the delivery of this project which already has been specifically highlighted in the Dublin Region Action Plan for Jobs; her...

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Security (24 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I thank the Deputy. I am going to call the Tánaiste. The Deputy is well over her time, Deputy and is eating into that of others.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (24 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 421. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to close a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2649/17]

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: Is the Deputy going to thank Fianna Fáil?

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I thank comrade Boyd Barrett and will echo some of the sentiments he raised. The Fianna Fáil Front Bench had a very interesting discussion on this on Tuesday. It was a very serious conversation which I will summarise. I am old enough to remember how and why the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, the predecessor of ISIF, came into being. It was to use investments to save and...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: Deputy Lahart.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: I am not asking the officials from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to answer my queries now but on another date. I refer to the fuzzy area regarding the transfer of assets from local authorities to Irish Water. I ask them to supply me with a detailed paper on the transfer of assets from local authorities to Irish Water that includes the timeline,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: Does Ms Graham mean a reduced commercial rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: Will the cessation of water metering act as an impediment to borrowing for Ervia or Irish Water?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered any of the implications of a television programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2192/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the actions the Government has taken with regard to the international emissions scandal surrounding a company (details supplied); if the Government has considered the motor tax implications for the company and other connected models as a consequence of the findings of the US EPA; the investigation of its own the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses which were constructed by the four Dublin local authorities in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2189/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (18 Jan 2017)

John Lahart: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the future of Ireland's fishing functions in a post-Brexit, newly configurated EU context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2190/17]