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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: If the Deputy would remain silent for a few moments, I would be happy to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy Coppinger mentioned Stalinist houses. That is how she referred to the programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister's programme is excellent and focused and is driven by the Department. The latter must continue to be the case. Some local authorities around the country are excellent, while others have poor records. The key point is the Minister's management of the process throughout the country. There are different demands in different areas. Obviously, the level of demand and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: They are right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The time of this meeting was changed through nobody's fault, and we have had a very good meeting, but I have to leave shortly. Can we reconvene at another date if that is okay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is grand because I wanted to make a contribution later on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have a supplementary question and perhaps the Minister could clarify an issue for me. When councils say there is no demand for housing in an area, that is not actually true if they have not tested that demand. One of the issues that has arisen is councils refusing houses from NAMA. Houses are available but the councils do not actually ask the people who applied, or they do not advertise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have a further supplementary question on that aspect. With respect to the so-called holiday homes that have been refused in some cases, part of the problem was that local authorities said there was no demand for homes in such and such a place. There could very well be a demand for them, but the houses might have to be surveyed to see if heating can be installed or changes can be made to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have seen much change.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Under Fianna Fáil, the Ballymun houses were built to meet a housing crisis. That did not work as families could not live in those high-rise apartments. It did not make sense but at the time they were the best thing since the sliced pan. In our county, there were houses built with prefabricated structures and after ten years they began to fall apart. Perhaps Deputy Scanlon remembers...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is an important debate. This Fianna Fáil Bill is not coming at the right time. Indeed, on the production of the new action plan for housing, what Members on this side of the House and most of the Members on that side of the House were talking about was building houses for people who cannot house themselves and about the provision of housing, particularly in the social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to the Louth County Council for roads in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; the amount of that designated money that has been used for national roads, regional roads, local primary roads, local secondary roads and local tertiary roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23291/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if and when Louth County Council and Meath County Council will receive grants from his Department for community involvement schemes for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23300/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists nationally for inpatient procedures by acute hospital; the patient waiting times for each such procedure by individual hospital; the funding provided for such procedures for each hospital for each of the past three years; his plans to significantly reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting list nationally for cardiology tests, MRI, CT, EEG and bone scans in tabular form; the patient waiting times for such tests for each acute hospital; the funding provided for each hospital for each of the past three years; his plans to significantly reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22271/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the comprehensive review undertaken by the HSE to establish the reason patients have to wait more than 12 months to be seen in a small number of hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the improvements made to the Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda through capital investment in each of the years 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22750/16]