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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: Are there any new or innovative ideas that short-term letting or home-sharing could offer to the charities involved in this area, including those represented at today's meeting? I accept that Airbnb has not caused the housing and homelessness crisis with which we are dealing. Obviously, supply and affordability are massive factors. This committee will discuss the quarterly report relating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their ongoing engagement with the committee. I am sure it will not be long before they are here again. We will compile a report based on all the evidence provided and submit it to the Department in the hope that it will take on board our recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: No apologies have been received. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: We will engage in detailed scrutiny of the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 which is a Private Members' Bill. I remind members that we will have two sessions today, to the first of which I welcome Deputies Gerry Adams and Seán Crowe who produced the Bill to extend the right to vote in and lower the eligibility age for presidential elections....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: We will seek clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: Thank you, Deputy Crowe. I hope the committee did not make you feel nervous and I certainly hope Deputy Eoin Ó Broin did not make you nervous. Are there any more questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: I thank Deputies Adams and Crowe for attending this morning. The next time they appear before us, they will not be nervous at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Maria Bailey: We will move on to the next session. We will suspend briefly to give our next set of witnesses a chance take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (18 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting their mobile phones are switched off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on the device used. It is not sufficient to leave them in silent mode as this will maintain a level of interference with the broadcasting system. I propose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I welcome from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, Mr. Pádraig Dalton, director general; Mr. Richard McMahon, assistant director general, social and demographic statistics; Mr. Paul Morrin, assistant director general, statistical system co-ordination; Ms Deirdre Cullen, senior statistician, census of population; and Mr. Cormac Halpin, senior statistician, census of population. By virtue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I will take two members and then come back to Mr. Dalton. Usually, we take a larger group but because this is so statistically based, we will take two at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I am not going to stop the Deputy, but the representatives of the CSO will not be able to answer many of the questions she is asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I am not cutting off the Deputy, I am just letting her know that the representatives will probably not be able to answer some of the points raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: The CSO witnesses will not be able to answer that question for the Senator. Does she wish to make any other points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I have a couple of brief questions as much of what I intended to ask has already been said. The 2011 census was more focused on unemployment figures than vacant houses as that was our biggest concern. The figures are very stark and that is probably the reason the figures for mortgages are down as are the number of people under 35 who buy their home. We did not foresee that the housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: Are there any further questions? Would the witnesses like to add anything further before we wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office (10 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: On behalf of the committee I thank the witnesses from the CSO for attending today. Everyone will agree that it was a very in-depth and fascinating meeting. All of the members of this committee love data and statistics. I also thank the CSO for the level of detail in the documentation provided to us prior to the meeting. The witnesses could probably tell that we all actually read it. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (9 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of scheme for commissioning psychological assessments, SCPA, assessments completed for the academic year 2015-16 for which certification of completion of assessment forms have been submitted by school principals between 6 September 2015 and 30 September 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21906/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Business of Committee (4 May 2017)

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

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Maria Bailey: I remind members that there will be two sessions today. I welcome to our first session Deputy Joan Collins, Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail and Ms Treasa Brannick O’Cillín. At today's meeting we are considering Deputy Collins's Bill on water in public ownership. The Bill was referred to this committee for consideration and today's meeting will involve detailed scrutiny of the...