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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We can do that. Members may wish to make observations or submissions on the content of that letter. Deputy O'Donoghue is familiar with Limerick and the issues there but there may be other issues elsewhere. Deputy Murnane O'Connor has indicated. Does this matter affect her area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin indicated that he wished to speak first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am going to go back to Deputy O'Donoghue on Senator Fitzpatrick's suggestion. I have no problem if we want to write and highlight-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: There will be an election. We will let the people decide whether they get a mayor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I did not know where to put that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is Committee of Public Accounts already looking at this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Are members agreeable to the proposal that we have a separate category for this matter? Agreed. I will just take a note of that. That brings us up to No. 31. Does Senator Cummins wish to come in with something briefly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Financial accountability across local government will be No. 31.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have that down now to a list of 31 subcategories. I will finalise that list. Before we move on it is now 12.40 p.m. and we have approximately 20 minutes remaining. I will return now to the correspondence that we have received. One concerns the water abstraction Bill and the other is a request from Home for Good to attend the committee and make a submission as a witness. I believe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes, certainly. In the Deputy’s experience from previous committees, when the PLS has been completed, is this all done in one session?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: That is what I am wondering about. The Department witnesses have indicated their availability for the next meeting. We have already been circulated with the general scheme of the Bill. In terms of another online meeting with the NGOs or others, I do not know if we have sufficient time. If the Department is available to meet us next week on this, that will not provide us with enough time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We are into the recess at that stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: That is where I am trying to go. The officials are available next week. Do we take them next week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes. What are members’ thoughts on that? I do not hear objections. Can we, at the next public meeting, have representatives from the Department in to give a briefing on the water abstraction Bill? With regard to the work programme we have been trying to establish, representatives from Home for Good have requested an invitation to appear before the committee. I suggest they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: That is what I am saying. We have the time to give people the required notice to attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am wondering whether that could be done by way of an online meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I want to follow on from what we spoke about, that is, the suggestion to have four different categories for the next four meetings. We are already thinking about the next three meetings, involving the Department, Home for Good and the other agencies, and we also have to follow up with the water NGOs. Then we are into the next four categories. That is seven.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I believe it is a possibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: It is about room availability.