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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is nothing normal about children being brought up in the homes of their grandparents. Twenty years ago a family would have been given a home within three years. Now children are eight or nine years old before they have an opportunity to live in their own home. This is a huge hidden problem. There is enormous pressure on those families who have to live in their parents' homes. I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I want to ask about why I was sacked from my job as Minister of State. As the Department is aware, my position on water services was correct all along. I know that the Taoiseach had nothing to do with it, but I would not mind being put back into the Department. I am sure the Secretary General would love to have me back. Of course, I am asking that question with tongue in cheek.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, I will now ask a serious question. There has been some controversy about the former chief executive of Irish Water. The matter was the subject of commentary on Sunday. Can we be updated on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is my only question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: He does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will Dublin City Council's report be published shortly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Department publish them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is key.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree. It puts the pressure back on the authority to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, but they became a matter of public record on Sunday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is no issue with it in the political sense. The issue is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I accept the Minister's point, but when will there be clarity on the issue and who will provide it? Will it be Irish Water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will take up the matter with Irish Water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, on his appointment, and I acknowledge his great and important knowledge of local government, and the fact his first visit as Minister of State was to Drogheda, which is very important. When will he publish his plan for local government reform? Notwithstanding the fact the 2014 national development plan is separate in one sense, when will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I think it is appropriate that I make one comment on Deputy Barry's contribution on Irish Water and its staff. I have always found Irish Water to be top class in its interaction with my constituents. Irish Water is extremely professional, helpful at all times, responds immediately to queries and will email by return and will solve problems. I have no experience or knowledge of the people...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: I made that request some months ago and have been patiently waiting for that meeting to ask the real questions.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (15 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48271/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Severe Weather Events Response (14 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 95. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which his Department responded to the declaration of the status red alert weather warning as regards its own employees. [47935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Severe Weather Events Response (14 Nov 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which her Department responded to the declaration of the status red alert weather warning as regards its own employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47921/17]