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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are asked to ensure that their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to aeroplane, safe or flight mode, depending on their device, for the duration of the meeting. It is not sufficient for members to just put their phones on silent mode because that will maintain a level of interference with the broadcasting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Owens and Mr. Geoghegan. I now call on Mr. Pat McLoughlin from the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. McLoughlin. Our first speaker is Deputy Pat Casey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Does Mr. McLoughlin wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We are under fierce time pressure. We must be finished by 11.35 a.m. in order to give our next witnesses time, so I ask our current witnesses to stick to a minute for their answers, if possible. Then they might correspond directly with the committee about anything they did not get to reply to if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Does Mr. Geoghegan wish to conclude?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Mr. O'Sullivan wanted to qualify something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the members, I thank our witnesses from the NOAC, the AILG and the CCMA for their attendance. I am sorry to rush them. We will probably have to have them before the committee again sooner rather than later because there is much more we need to debate. We will suspend the meeting to allow our second set of witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I have received apologies from Deputy Eoin Ó Broin. I welcome to our second session from the Local Government Audit Service, Ms Niamh Larkin, director of audit, and Mr. Richard Murphy; and from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Mr. Paul Lemass, Ms Lorraine O'Donoghue, Ms Sinéad Kehoe, Mr. David Kelly and Mr. Rory O'Leary. Before we begin, I draw the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: Thank you, Ms Larkin. I now call on Mr. Paul Lemass to deliver his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: We are on a timeframe so it might be better if we could go into it in more detail next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: This is really important for Deputy O'Dowd so it might be worth his while to speak to Ms Larkin after the meeting to get the detail he needs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Mr. Lemass. Does Deputy Casey need clarification on a point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Finance: Discussion (9 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the members, I thank Mr. Lemass, Ms Larkin and all the departmental officials for attending this meeting. If there is anything they feel they did not get to qualify in their answers, they might send it to the committee afterwards. The next meeting will be on 14 November 2017 when we will have a private briefing on the commercial rates Bill with Mr. Lemass.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding persons with gardasil (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (7 Nov 2017)

Maria Bailey: 824. To ask the Minister for Health if section 28 (10)(a) of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2013 provides him with the authority to prohibit the sale of so-called combi-boxes which contain rolling tobacco, papers and filters in view of the continued growth in the use of rolling tobacco by persons under 25 years of age; if not, if he can be authorised to do so; and if he will make...

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Maria Bailey: I am delighted to comment on the national planning framework. This has been a long process. We have heard many comments from people who have said they did not have the opportunity for consultation or to make their views heard. Some have said that there has not been a bottom-up approach or that it has not been diverse enough. Others have said that there has not been an extensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (26 Oct 2017)

Maria Bailey: Before we begin we will record our decisions in respect of the EU scrutiny. It is proposed that COM (2017) 481, on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations, warrants no further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Does any member wish to make a comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (26 Oct 2017)

Maria Bailey: Is it agreed that COM (2017) 481 warrants no further scrutiny? Agreed. It is proposed that COM (2017) 482, on European citizens' initiative, warrants no further scrutiny. Is that agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (26 Oct 2017)

Maria Bailey: Is it agreed that COM (2017) 482 warrants no further scrutiny? Agreed.