Results 881-900 of 2,015 for speaker:Pat Casey

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: Before Ms O'Donoghue goes into that matter, will the committee have an involvement in that Irish Water process or will it be down to the commission and the Minister to decide at the end of the day how it should be apportioned? Will we have sight of it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: Probably not, but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I will not get into the nitty-gritty of it, but will the delegate send me a practical example? For the purposes of this discussion, we will allow it to go through, but I would like to examine it by the time the Bill reaches Report Stage next week. With regard to appeals, there would be leakage in the determination of an ARV. Why is it a factor in this instance? I ask the question not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: Is it normally only applied after the results of appeals are known?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I will tell the ratepayers in County Wicklow who have appealed not to get their hopes up that it will be done by the end of the year. It was indicated that it would be done by September.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I have one more question and I will leave my questions for today if the officials are willing to forward me the information I have requested.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: The potential for buoyancy in global revaluation of both the ESB and Eir network has been mentioned. Is there a chance that the Minister or the commission could use the buoyancy in local authorities to balance the potential deficit of Irish Water?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: Is there potential for the Minister to leverage a revaluation of both the ESB and Eir to balance out a potential shortfall in Irish Water's funding of local authorities?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: The officials have not said "Yes" or "No".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: Is that one of them potentially? Potentially. It would be helpful if the witnesses could forward the full calculation to us.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: The information will help us to get our heads around A to K before 3 July.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: We had a fairly detailed conservation on amendment No. 15. There is no point in going through half the alphabet and discussing it all over again. We are willing to support this amendment today with a view to having a closer look at it when the staff have agreed to send us on the details of that formula and how the amendment around the A to K formula is actually worked out practically. We...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: On amendment No. 6, my heart goes out to these local authorities which have so many commercial bills to send out, that it is causing financial constraints to send them in prepaid envelopes. I wish we had that many to send out in Wicklow. I am not 100% sure what is the purpose of amendment No. 7. Is it to take liability away from the person who was using the property and putting it back...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: My understanding of the regulation at the moment is that if I own a property and I rent it out, once I give that information as to who that person is, their address and details to the local authority, my liability then ceases. If so, why is this amendment needed? If the liability on the owner-occupier ceases, why is it the case that, where "the name of the liable person concerned cannot be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I seek clarification. While I understand the logic presented by the Minister of State, this amendment seems to read that, even though I as the owner have provided the local authority with all of the necessary information, I will be next in line if the occupier absconds. Does the amendment place the liability back on me? I am concerned. Given the way this is worded, it looks like the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I am concerned that it exposes an owner to that charge. What the Minister of State has set out is not actually mentioned in the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: I will briefly speak to the amendment. I put on the record that I am a commercial ratepayer so that everybody knows that. Wicklow went through it is revaluation process this year and March was an exceptionally busy month in my office. The purpose of this amendment to take the shock out of a revaluation system. As the Minister of Sate said, 40% of properties received an increase.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: It was the 40% who received an increase who contacted my office not the 60% who did not receive an increase. While the Minister of State mentioned that properties could have had improvements carried out and extensions added, the critical factor is that a revaluation had not been carried out in Wicklow during the past 30 years. The fundamental problem is that revaluations do not take place...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: There is a grand coalition now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jun 2019)

Pat Casey: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he has managed the risks associated with the use of valproate in pregnancy; the actions taken to minimise risk from 1990 when studies concluded clear evidence of risk of congenital abnormalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26107/19]