Results 641-660 of 1,928 for speaker:Pat Casey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: I am concerned that we have a second session and everybody wants to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. As the debate progresses, we begin to see the impact this is having on human beings and hear their stories. The witnesses have highlighted the apartment sector but we know it goes way beyond that. Sometimes we think of urban areas. It goes beyond those too, down to one-off rural houses, the self-builds. A good friend of mine had no recourse...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to upgrade and refurbish St. Colman's Hospital, Rathdrum in view of the need to do so as stated by recent HIQA reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45646/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a social support worker has been assigned to the temporary direct provision centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44907/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (5 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: 913. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 2020 greenway application process will be announced; the details of changes to the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44528/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: I ask the Deputy to be brief. We are tight on time and I have to call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: The witness can make a brief response. I have to move on to Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: Under the programme for Government and environmental protection, I ask the Tánaiste or the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to confirm that the future funding will be in place for the Pure Project in Wicklow. The Minister will be aware of this ground-breaking anti-dumping and environmental awareness project, which has operated for 13 years, which has collected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank Mr. Lemass for his presentation and wish him luck with his optimism about getting this through by Christmas. It started in the House in 2015. Everybody here welcomes the legislation and agrees that it is necessary. Most of my questions have been asked. Some of the issues are concerns more than anything else with regard to regulation and the smaller approved housing bodies....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: Most of the questions have already been teased through as I said.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (22 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contact his Department has had with EUROSTAT on the classification of the Land Development Agency as being on balance sheet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43549/19]

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

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Following a two-year period, this is our first opportunity to discuss the strategic housing development review, SHDR. It is critical that we get down to the nuts and bolts of the practical operation of this process. I will start by making some general statements. It is the consultation and the community involvement process relating to...

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

Pat Casey: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. I call Dr. Duffy first because a number of questions were directed towards him.

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

Pat Casey: I thank the Chair. All of the contributions we have heard contained references to the democratic process involved in the SHD process. Most of us feel that what is happening is not adequate. I do not think it is right. It is not fair on communities. We are governed by the national planning framework, which is a Government regulation. We must remember that nobody in this House had a...

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

Pat Casey: On public information and IT, the board appeared before the committee and stated that it would upgrade its website. It still has not done so. We have the same concerns about the Residential Tenancies Board, its new platform and the need for IT when it comes to processing information relating to landlords. I will leave it at that, but I have concerns about the IT unit and the structure.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (17 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of each secondary school in County Wicklow involved in the school building programme; the length of time they have been in their current development stage; the average times for all development stages to complete; the estimated time for projects to progress to completion in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline of events in the process carried out to date in the appointment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma based at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, created by him in July 2016; if interviews were held in March 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42396/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: While I will try not to, it is hard not to bring up the same issues. Everybody is focused on how we can deliver affordable housing. We might have different views on how that is achieved, but that is the ultimate aim of everyone present. It is disappointing that 60% of State land is to be used for private housing. I have a fundamental problem with that. Is this adding another layer to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I am not against the Land Development Agency, I just have some reservations and concerns about it and feel that it could potentially do more. One of the key things that has come across today is that it could bring about stability in development to prevent cycles occurring. I fully accept the concept that, in a time of recession, this agency might be in a position to continue building when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: We are drafting the legislation, but we do not know whether the model being proposed will be on o off-balance sheet. It is n the ether and nobody knows if it will eventually be on or off-balance sheet. The worst thing that could happen is that EUROSTAT and the CSO will decide that it is on-balance sheet. Then it will fail because it will not be able to function.