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- Local Government (Community Gardens) Bill 2023: First Stage (7 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Local Government (Community Gardens) Bill 2023: First Stage (7 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled - An Bille Rialtais Áitiúil (Gairdíní Pobail), 2023, nó as Béarla, the Local Government (Community Gardens) Bill -an Act to amend and extend the Local Government Act 2001 and, for that purpose, to provide for applications for a community garden; to require local authorities to publish a community garden...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current level of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) for its recycle mobility programme to help provide independence in mobility for children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48436/23]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Military Aircraft (7 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Shannon Airport is being used by the USA to transport weapons to Israel to potentially be used against the occupied territories of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47401/23]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will not swear blind that I do not have a notification in my inbox but most Deputies have more to be doing than watching their inbox all day long. If it has arrived, I certainly have not seen it. This is a welcome opportunity to discuss another in a series of excellent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, detailing our water quality. The latest is titled, Urban Waste...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Notwithstanding my initial frustration, I recognise that the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, is well placed to understand the imperative for action, in particular, on urban wastewater. I often use the analogy of high blood pressure as opposed to having your front teeth knocked out. Someone who has their front teeth knocked out will act on it straightaway because everybody can see it....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I will make the usual refrain that notwithstanding the excellence of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, I know that this is not an area within his Ministry. It is a pity that none of the relevant Ministers is in a position to be able to attend the debate this evening.
- Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The last time I was knocked down, I was dressed as Big Bird. I do not quite mean that literally but I am 6 ft 1 in. and I was dressed from head to toe in bright yellow. I was going through a roundabout when a driver came in, ploughed into the side of me and I went out over the bonnet. I received the SIDNY apology, that is, "Sorry, I didn't notice you." It therefore does not necessarily...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am going to stick with housing in the broad sense but change focus. I want to ask about local authority retrofit of social housing. My understanding of it is that the target the Department set is to retrofit all social homes by 2050. By implication, that means by 2049 there will still be some of our most vulnerable people living in cold houses with high energy prices, and not just cold...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Similarly, there is a good shot of social housing that is nowhere near B2. Have we some sort of analysis across our social housing stock on where we are in energy efficiency? Are we still looking at a lot of F- and G-rated homes, 1930s council housing stock, where, no matter how much coal is shovelled onto the fire, the heat goes straight up the chimney? Have we a clear and comprehensive...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That would be useful to have. If 140,000 homes are in social housing, I would like to understand how many are F- and G-rated. There is no heating an F- or G-rated home. You are going to heat one room of your home and you are going to do it at great cost. Energy efficiency means a lot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That still leaves-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Doyle. There is a lot more to dig into there, but I want to have a look at water issues. Another Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report out this morning tells us that, shockingly, three Olympic-sized swimming pools of untreated raw sewage go into Ireland's water systems every day. Some of the comments made by the EPA director, Dr. Tom Ryan, indicate that, 30 years after...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not mean to interrupt, but I have an eye on the clock. We have a picture of the situation at wastewater treatment plant level, but we do not have a picture of small private water supplies. Rather, we do not have anywhere near as clear a picture as we need. Another concern is septic tanks. I suppose I am referring to water in, water out. According to an EPA report from June 2022 on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So, they are for local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So that I can compare like with like, how many of those were inspected? If there were 1,147 inspections in 2020, what percentage of the overall stock are we talking about?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would it be fair to characterise it as extremely low?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are we hitting 1% per year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know that. The house I grew up in was built in the 1970s before I was born and has a septic tank that is 50 years old. That is not atypical. Are we even hitting 1% per year for the number of septic tanks being tested?