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Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Brevity.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (14 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cessation of funding to the WALK PEER programme; if he will meet with the WALK PEER team to discuss the situation and to re-evaluate the decision on funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15919/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (8 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on entitlements for a teacher (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an extension at a school (details supplied); why it is not going ahead; if he will provide extra funding for it to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Functions (8 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to issues raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the reconfiguration of his Department and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14263/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (8 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 380. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on correspondence (details supplied) from a person who is seeking an all-party approach to national cultural policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14622/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister. I also welcome his commitment to the significant changes needed and, in that context, the fact that he is gathering around him a team of experts from inside and outside his Department. We previously experienced a huge housing crisis in the 1970s. Are there staff in the Department who were involved in drafting the huge housing programme introduced when Mr. Tully was...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a fact. I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Chairman ask Deputy Ruth Coppinger, my close-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is a fact, actually.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, 2,500 was the total number taken up from 6,000. Those are the facts and they do not suit Deputy Coppinger's narrative. I am sorry if they do not.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: If the Deputy wishes to speak for me, maybe-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The witness for the prosecution is beside me, I am afraid. I am trying to provide an adequate and proper defence, rebuttal and attack.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: To get back to the point, the representatives of NAMA stated very clearly that whereas some of those houses were in unfinished estates, they were being offered in a finished state. In other words, the agency would finish them. I am concerned that local authorities do not have the commitment to build what they need to. I acknowledge that the county managers or chief executive officers will...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do too because, like yourself, I have sat here. I am the first Government party speaker and I am not going to be rushed in the final part of my question. I spoke about the build-to-lease programme, NAMA homes and landbanks and now I want to mention the planning review. That is key. We need to look again at fast-track planning. I do not know whether it makes sense. Somebody spoke about...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Excuse me-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The point I was making, in response to other points about NAMA being the big bad wolf, was that the agency in fact offered thousands of houses that were not taken up.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I hope so.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is around commuter-----