Results 761-780 of 2,052 for speaker:Maria Bailey
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: Older, not old.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: It is a crucial policy as there will be 1.3 million people aged over 65 in the coming years. I would like to focus on the benefits. I feel Professor Barrett's pain in describing the reaction he got. I saw a programme recently where this was discussed and it was portrayed as older people being shoved from their homes. It is purely a choice that people do not currently have at the level...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: That is not true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I apologise for the delay in starting the meeting. We needed to have Members of both Houses in attendance. At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members, witnesses and visitors in the Gallery are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting, their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to aeroplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: The problem has not been sanctioning staff but getting staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: We will let the witnesses finish first, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Residential Tenancies Board (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: We are under a little bit of time pressure. We were supposed to have our next session at 2 p.m. I suggest to members that we take a ten-minute break and start our next session at 2.15 p.m. I thank the representatives from the Residential Tenancies Board, Ms Walsh, Ms Carroll, Ms Ward and Ms Gallagher, for attending. If there is anything they think is relevant, they might follow up on it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members and those in the Visitors Gallery are requested to ensure their mobile telephones are turned off completely or switched to aeroplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device, for the duration of the meeting. It is not sufficient to place telephones on silent mode as they will still interfere with the broadcasting system....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: As we are under pressure for time I suggest that we take three questioners now. Is that agreed? Agreed. I call Senator Grace O'Sullivan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I am sorry. Someone's phone or iPad is interfering with the system. Could they move it away from the microphone? Ms Kerin will not be heard clearly. It is fine in here, but she will not be heard on the broadcast.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: Deputy Mick Barry was due to contribute next but he has stepped out of the room. We have about 20 minutes left and two more members will ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: They are counted but come under a different heading.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: They are not included in those numbers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I am conscious that the witness has to be in a taxi in ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: At the start of the meeting I read out a statement to the effect that witnesses are protected by absolute privilege, and people should not be named outside of the Houses. I just wanted to remind Deputy Barry of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: The Deputy should remember that the witness is under time pressure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I let three non-members of the committee contribute before I had a chance to ask a question. I thank the witnesses for attending this morning. I do not disagree with much of what was said, or the sentiment. I am not sure how much Ms Farha knows of where Ireland has come from or what policies were in place here previously, but the initial action plan on dealing with homelessness was dealing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: I thank all our witnesses for attending and for engaging with the committee. The next meeting of the joint committee will be on Thursday with ICTU on Irish Water's proposed move to a single utility and discuss where we are going to go on the pre-legislative scrutiny on the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018, following on from today.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (12 Jun 2018)
Maria Bailey: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the recent conference held in Dún Laoghaire on accessible tourism could inform ways to benefit Dublin's and Ireland's tourism industry; the follow-up action taken in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25317/18]