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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Minister of State if he can tell us the number of social housing units that were planned, designed, commenced and completed in the years 2012 to 2016. It is a bit of a mystery. I would appreciate if the Minister of State could give me some information.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The genie is out of the bottle, I think, if there is no shortage of money. Did I hear the Minister of State right? How many houses did he say were built from 2011 to 2016?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Only 11, in the years 2011 to 2016. This gives the total-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State has been telling us about Rebuilding Ireland and many other projects. The former Minister, Deputy Kelly was too when he was in place. We are sick of announcements. This is the problem. How could we have a homelessness crisis improved if we are not building houses? The local authority built houses from the 1930s to the 1990s and right into the millennium. Nothing at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not carried away at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am mystified. There is only one way to sort this out, which is for the Minister of State, myself and any other Members of the Oireachtas who so wish should sit down with the county manager. We are being told one thing. The Minister of State is saying the county council is being flooded with money and is not building. He cannot blame the council for everything. The council is under...

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Agus rince.

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the national planning framework. For many years I have called for a significant re-evaluation of the status currently assigned to the town and environs of Clonmel under the then national spatial strategy. We were ignored. I want to salute the members of Tipperary County Council planning department who engineered a significant review of the 2002-2020 national spatial...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The problem is that there is no legislation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation; it is the programme for Government. It concerns the national children's hospital, its development and the sorry saga whereby the cost is now €1.25 billion. I am glad that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is here. The national children's hospital was deliberately designed to be-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The question concerns how the hospital was designed to be 10 cm lower in height than 30 m to circumvent sprinkler requirements to avoid having to install a sprinkler system for fires. This is not a claim made by me. I am reporting a claim made by Dublin Fire Brigade. The developers, the board of the national children's hospital and Dublin Fire Brigade spent 12 months discussing this. We...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not circumventing. It is a national issue. Our children-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Building this hospital is in the programme for Government. The cost has gone from €400 million up to €1.25 billion and now they are keeping below the required height just to avoid putting in safety measures to prevent fire.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He was in government for five years.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Expenditure (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts paid by his Department in grants and supports for those operating private or group water schemes in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns regarding aspects of the national framework plan that are creating uncertainty for local authority funding streams particularly in rural areas. [45540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Property (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the level of commercial property vacancies in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the regulations regarding slurry spreading to introduce greater flexibility as to when this practice is permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41849/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately, we have all listened to such stories, as have the Ministers. If they had any heart, they would have dealt with this long ago. The Minister announced today what he is going to do and not do. I hope he had a nice time with the bankers and with all the sweet cake he had in the last couple of days. I said yesterday that bank robbers at one time used to come in with guns to rob...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Meanwhile, they are not giving a bob to anyone.