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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: I was going to suggest early on Monday morning in committee room 2.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: It has to be on Wednesday or Thursday because we cannot come back in here on the Tuesday, as far as I know. This limits us again. Will we seek written submissions on this from the interested parties before we decide who to invite in? I do not know whether we will be able to get a second slot next week. If officials from the Department come before the committee next Tuesday, I do not know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: Could we have suggestions on the groups we may invite in so we could write to them and asked them for written submissions and then decide who to invite in from that? Many people will have an interest in the water abstraction Bill. There is land throughout the country that will be used for pipelines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: Will we proceed by inviting representatives from the Department to attend the public meeting next week to look at the abstraction Bill? We will also write to the NGOs for written submissions on it. I will see whether we can get a second session on Wednesday or Thursday next week to accommodate them. It is very time constrained. I am sure the NGOs have prepared for the Bill because it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: Essential work would cover it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: At the transport committee, four people were beamed in from outside and two people were present in the room. It is possible to work around it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: That will be online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: It will be online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: We spoke about that earlier. The Secretary General has been invited to brief members on the Department's priorities. That will probably be via a Microsoft Teams meeting. Members will be notified when this has been arranged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: We will not need to worry about being in a room. It will be a briefing. Senator Boyhan said that there was an informal briefing from the Department. That will cover it. We have five minutes left. The minutes of the previous meeting contain references to the subject matter we discussed in the context of our next four meetings. Obviously, this has changed. As legislation comes, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: I am open to that. Are members are open to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: I was thinking on the basis that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: The next two meetings are accounted for. There are another four, or possibly five, meetings. If we can get a second session per week, it will mean that we will only need half that number. Otherwise-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: We will make inquiries on that and revert to members. If a time is offered, we will have to take it and whoever can attend will do so. I thank members for their time and co-operation. The committee is adjourned until Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 10.20 a.m., when we will meet in private session using Microsoft Teams. The next public session will be held on that date at 11 a.m.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (7 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to carry out a study on the relationship between road speed limits and the impact on fuel consumption, journey times, air quality and emissions. [29145/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: 180. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if clarity will be provided on the guidelines to playschools and crèches in relation to the prohibition of the use of plastic lunch boxes (details supplied); and if the reason for the issuing of such guidance will be provided. [29100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can still claim the pandemic unemployment payment in cases in which they are on the pandemic unemployment payment and seeking to improve their future career prospects by enrolling in a part-time Springboard course; and if not, if they are required to switch to another form of social welfare which may be of a...