Results 961-980 of 2,015 for speaker:Pat Casey
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: There can be a question on the broader context but not on a specific case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: The witnesses may not have that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Nobody was aware this issue was to be raised today. We are here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: In fairness, this is a matter that is before the courts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Deputy O'Dowd is coming back to the individual case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: I look forward to hearing from Senator Boyhan now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: Then they become Senators.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: If that report is sent to the secretariat, it can distribute it to all members. It is a valuable report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: We can give reports to the members. Having served on an audit committee in Wicklow, I confirm that we were always shown the management letter from the auditors. In fairness, it gave one a greater insight into what the thinking behind the report was. It was always a valuable piece of information. Pensions have been mentioned. The cost of pensions is a recurring issue in every budgetary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)
Pat Casey: I thank Ms Larkin and Mr. Murphy for attending and engaging with the committee today.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Before I proceed, I wish to place on record the fact hat my family business in Glendalough has been used previously to house children in family homelessness. During my previous contribution on child and family homelessness in our Republic, I concluded by pleading to the Government to immediately declare homelessness a national emergency. Our homelessness national emergency needs a massive...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of ongoing actions regarding a service (details supplied) in Bray and Wicklow in view of the published failings in several HSE reports and inquiries; the way in which complaints by service users and their families have been dealt with; the nature and detail of consultation with the families of service users; the status of governance issues with...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: At my very first committee meeting with the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Simon Coveney, I was the first to raise the issue of short-term letting platforms. I said I felt short-term letting was having an impact on the rental market. I acknowledge, having come from the tourism industry, that the industry itself needs a certain amount of short-term letting. A holistic approach is needed. ...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Is there any communication with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the regulation of short-term letting platforms?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: Is there no indication of when that Department will tackle the regulation?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: I am probably repeating myself, but we have to find the balance between tourism needs and the needs of the rental sector. We have all provided examples of it. The Minister has said that he will issue a blanket ban as a starting point. In Wicklow there are three rental pressure zones, being Bray, Greystones and Wicklow town. Wicklow is my local electoral area and I have my own business in...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: I welcome the amendments, the role that the students' unions throughout the country played and how we in the House reacted to that collectively. I acknowledge the Minister's role and that of everyone else in the tabling of the amendments. They amount to a positive move.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: I acknowledge the role the AHBs play and any additional burden we put on them is not welcome. I understand where the Minister is coming from to a certain degree but do we know what percentage of the complaints to the RTB are from the approved housing bodies sector? The same platform could be used with the approved housing bodies but only when the terms and conditions of that tenancy change...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: The Minister is saying that there are cases-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)
Pat Casey: -----and I am wondering about the level of that.