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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The commission has set out specifically that it intends to carry out research into the issue of representation and the manner in which the overall number of TDs is determined, as I have mentioned, in the context of a rising population. For next week, with the commission coming in, I am certain this will be a matter that members of this committee and the TDs who are coming in to speak at it...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy has asked a good question. The commission has issued its draft research programme for people to feed into. We are not restricting the commission. It has set out its work programme. A view has been articulated here and in the House as to what people's views are, particularly in light of an ever growing population. The commission is going to look at this specific matter. Its...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes. The commission published its draft research programme completely independent of me or of input from ourselves. The commission is going to undertake that. That is the importance of having it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: No, they do not.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: To clarify, they do not have to. If one looks at the other areas the commission is looking at, the Electoral Act is not prescriptive in the other areas that they are looking at either. So we are not restricting them in any way. This is an area that does need to be looked at, in my view, and I say that as a Minister and as a Teachta Dála in the House. This matter needs to be looked...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank Members for their engagement today. The Electoral (Amendment) Bill gives effect to recommendations of the Electoral Commission in respect of the total membership of the next Dáil. The Bill does not provide, at this stage, for revisions to the European Parliament constituencies. During the Second Stage debate in the Dáil, I indicated that amendments to the Bill would be...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I will keep my contribution relatively brief, particularly as quite a lot is happening today. I welcome the opportunity to be with the select committee to discuss the Supplementary Estimate for 2023. I am joined by Marguerite Ryan, assistant secretary, corporate and business support, and Sinead Kehoe, finance officer. They will be assisting us this afternoon. In February, I met with the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: There are additional moneys of about €146 million.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I am just putting my answer in context. It is important that the committee knows that there is additional funding coming into the Department and that the vast bulk of that will be for homeless services. If we look, for argument’s sake, at the reallocation to the capital acquisitions scheme, CAS, we can provide the exact amounts and they are detailed in the capital amounts here. We...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I have the list here myself.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: All of this remains within A, within housing. On local authority housing, there will be a real allocation from the direct build from the local authorities. There will be a reallocation on the mortgage to rent-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I was just going through it before the Deputy came back in, so he might let me do that. I will go specifically through each of the items that have been reallocated. The Deputy knows where we are reallocating to. On local authority housing, there will be a reallocation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: We have not outspent. The last quarter is obviously a very heavy quarter for housing delivery, so we have to be aware of that too. I cannot be too specific with the Deputy but I am telling him-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: I am going to tell the Deputy where we are going to reallocate from. Just let me conclude this and he can come back in. To look at A3 on local authority housing and A10 on mortgage to rent, and there will be a very small reallocation on housing for people with disabilities and older people-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: It is A14. For A15, again, there is a very small adjustment there.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Darragh O'Brien: Do you not have that?