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

Fergus O'Dowd: The figure in one constituency was 50%.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: The figure in Waterford was 50% as well.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I can.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Part of the problem has been a lack of a local authority building programme, possibly over a nine or ten-year period when housing ceased to be built. I live in Drogheda and was a member of Drogheda Borough Council for more years than I care to remember. We were always building houses and then we moved away from Department-sanctioned funding by the local authority to housing associations. I...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is people who are not treated properly and are not respected. That is what I mean.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The National Building Agency, NBA, used to deal with that for local councils. I sat on the NBA, which handled design, building and the whole lot - it was a one-stop shop. It got the contract and it delivered. Why does the Department not do that? Why have all this other stuff going on?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that, but what is wrong with the NBA doing all that? It did it very efficiently, quickly and professionally. A local authority essentially rubber-stamped it - it got the land and that was it.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Why does the Housing Agency not do this?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to make one point whenever the Chairman can call me.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The National Building Agency, now the Housing Agency, to my absolute knowledge and experience was very efficient when it was building houses. It did a fantastic job and we never had a complaint. That is my personal view. I am not trying to trap him into an answer but would Mr. Cummins agree that a one-stop-shop could work? All the experts from the Department, the Housing Agency, the local...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I think Mr. Coman is referring to Deputy Durkan.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I favour them, although I accept that I might look like Deputy Durkan.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Coman is lucky Deputy Durkan is not here.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Nothing I have heard has convinced me the thousands of homeless families would be happy about these houses not going into local authority ownership. I am not here to criticise and I do not make judgments but I am deeply concerned about this. I stress again I am not being personal in this regard but at its core, the need of people who are homeless or in housing is greater than any other...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Put them in the houses that are offered; that is the rhetorical question.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The supply is there and they did not use it.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: The skills are still there. It is the skills that we are talking about.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 285. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to issues raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the reconfiguration of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14081/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated in County Louth for tourism under Fáilte Ireland's Ancient East initiative; the consultation that has taken place in County Louth on this initiative; the amounts sought and amounts allocated; if it is possible to apply for further project support; the conditions attached to same; and if he will...