Results 101-120 of 143 for long speaker:Pat Casey

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Casey: I welcome and support this motion and I commend the Green Party and the Social Democrats on highlighting what I have long believed is a necessary model in addressing the worsening housing crisis. The housing crisis has consistently been getting worse according to all the evidence produced. Rents have been rising for over five years, supply in the rental market is abysmal and tenants are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Pat Casey: ...to the effect that, where possible, they should not criticise or make charges against any person, persons or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in...

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Pat Casey: ...will open and what their future maintenance services will be due to the collapse of Carillion. Coláiste Ráithín and St. Philomena's in Bray are awaiting the completion and opening of the long-awaited essential buildings. When the news broke I immediately contacted the Department by means of a parliamentary question demanding clarity on the issue and I am very disappointed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Casey: ...because it was not quite what we believed a void was when we discussed the start of Rebuilding Ireland. Most of us have been in local authorities and have seen voids, sitting there for a long time, boarded up and unused, and that was what we considered to be a void. The figures, however, include the turnover of people who vacate houses because of a debt or for any other reason. Many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pat Casey: ...is spending the capital funding on getting these homes back into use. My original understanding of Rebuilding Ireland was that we were looking at derelict buildings that had been boarded up for a long period, such as 18 months or two years, but now we are looking at houses that have been vacated by a long-standing tenant, who may have passed away, and that house needs replacement doors or...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Pat Casey: .... These support services are excellent, with dedicated and hard-working staff. The Government has consistently washed its hands of the issue and dismissed this unjustifiable inequality for far too long. This has caused even more stress and frustration for section 39 organisation workers in County Wicklow. Staff feel undervalued and under-appreciated because of the dismissive attitude...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Pat Casey: ..., these families have no choice but to get up very early in the morning since their parents must get their children ready for school in their little uniforms for Dublin city schools, and make that long journey back to our nation's capital for school and work. One of the parents then makes contact with Dublin local authorities once again to see if any accommodation can be made available....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: ...that, where possible, they should not criticise or make charges against any person, persons or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official by name or in such a way as to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: It was a long night last night.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: ...the effect that, where possible, they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official, either by name or in such a way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: ...in them that they would deliver. The public are beginning to not engage in them anymore because they are tired of public meetings about plans which do not deliver anything to them directly in the long term. The national planning framework is a high-level aspirational plan with no specifics. The Minister claimed he is aligning the national investment plan with it. However, without the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: ...the effect that, where possible, they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: ...that owners of such properties face when they attempt to refurbish these spaces into homes. It takes up to five months to get the various permissions, certifications and applications approved, if not longer. Planning, disabled access, fire certification, building control, commencement notices and monitoring are all necessary to ensure basic standards of accommodation. However, for each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which it is proposed to reduce the long waiting times being experienced by children in County Wicklow that are in need of an assessment for occupational therapy. [40995/17]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: ...in the context of managing that investment and ensuring that the quality of new housing is such that we spend public moneys not only with a view to addressing an urgent social need but also to the economic and long-term strategic return for the taxpayer. It is vital in the context of the State's role in housing that publicly-owned land is retained for public investment in housing. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: ...be delivered has changed? Why did we create the transfer list in the first place? Is it that we are trying to present figures in a different way, which makes the crisis worse, because their long-term housing needs have not been met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: ...that, where possible, they should not criticise or make charges against any person, persons or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be very brief because I think Deputy Ó Broin has covered nearly everything we need to say about this issue. We are hugely frustrated regarding why it has taken so long to get this money into the market. As a State, we have clearly said that we are moving more towards approved housing bodies to deliver the social housing stock, yet there is capacity to give them more funds and we...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: ...agenda while housing, mental health and education are being put on the political waiting list by Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and the Independent Alliance. I find that hard to take. I also think that the longer this farce of a debate goes on, the more damage that will be done to everyone in this Dáil. What we need to do is to reset carefully the atmosphere surrounding this debate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: ...house when he or she is away on holidays for a weekend or for a week or two. That is not who we are after here. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue of entire properties being rented out on a long-term basis. We also need to define the difference between booked rooms and available rooms. Coming from the tourism sector, I would be delighted if I could have 100% occupancy...