Results 1,001-1,020 of 2,046 for speaker:Pat Casey

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.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: I have a more technical question. If this legislation is passed, and I hope it will be passed, will the portal be ready? When will the portal that the Minister is saying will create this seamless process that will not cause a burden be ready? How far away are we from that portal being ready?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: Without any hiccoughs in computer systems.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: I know. That is what I am saying.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: Amendment No. 30 is on the same matter that we were trying to introduce and which we spoke about in private session, namely, capping it on the basis of a financial contribution. That option is still there, and while I know the Minister said it could not work, the home incentive scheme has worked quite well, where a list of permitted enabling works is given and a financial minimum that can be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: I am just talking about the principle, I am not talking about-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 77, 86 to 135, inclusive, and Nos. 137 to 144, inclusive, are just including tenants.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: I am sharing time with Deputies Scanlon, Aindrias Moynihan, Murphy O'Mahony, MacSharry, O'Loughlin and Troy. Fianna Fáil welcomes and supports the motion. Fine Gael has overseen a crisis marked by homelessness which is reaching unprecedented levels. Surging rents are at historic heights. Home building numbers are tens of thousands behind where they need to be, while some 130,000...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: The programme for Government includes reference to climate change. A controversial decision was taken by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a large-scale wind farm on the iconic hills around Aughrim. In making the decision, the board used what we all agree to be the outdated wind energy guidelines that go back to 2006 and ignored the views and concerns of the people of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Home Insulation Grants (4 Apr 2019)

Pat Casey: 279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for grant funding to be provided to home dwellers to insulate their houses using Irish wool (details supplied) in view of the number of houses here that have poor BER ratings; the similar initiatives that could help to revive the prospects of the sheep and wool sector here; and if he will make a statement on...