Results 15,641-15,660 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch
- Housing Market. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: It is an opportunity. That is right.
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Question 7: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends that, under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008, local authorities should form management companies or employ management companies in order to charge rents or make other charges in regard to dwellings that it owns. [36392/08]
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I am uncertain as to what the Minister of State has just stated, because the legislation, which I have to hand, states that local authorities will be getting into the business of establishing management companies. To push out the question further, will such management companies engage with matters such as the rental accommodation scheme? I can envisage a scenario in which local authorities...
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I shall frame three questions. Will this create an additional charge for tenants under the rental accommodation scheme? How will the legislative framework for this measure be pitched? Will it be included in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill although regulation is still awaited in respect of the private management sector? Third, although councils will be obliged to get into...
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I wish to ask a brief supplementary question.
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: It simply is to clarify that point.
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Section 30 of the Bill states the Minister will empower local authorities to make charges for dwellings they do not own but which may be subject to a contract of a lease. I understand this pertains to the rental accommodation scheme. A management company or housing authority may pass on management and service charges to tenants. This looks as though it will constitute an additional charge...
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Government will now be creating massiveââ
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Will this end up as an additional charge on tenants under the rental accommodation scheme? Will the legislation have to be incorporated into the private sector provisions outlined by Deputy Terence Flanagan? How will it lend itself to a social housing integration process if we end up in a situation whereby local authorities take charge of entire private estates?
- Local Authority Housing. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I am not assuming; it is in the legislation.
- Local Government Reform. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I welcome any response to those questions. The scheme cannot be implemented. As someone who has served on a local authority, in opposition and in power, I refer to connectivity between national and local government. Does the Minister see merit in the idea that strategic policy committees of local authorities, which should have a strategic role in the development of regions, would be better...
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the expenditure on the acquisition and the storage of electronic voting machines; if he will scrap electronic voting machines in order to save storage costs and to gain any residual value from their scrappage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36584/08]
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Any pensioners listening to this debate must be bewildered. In a week in which the House addressed the issue of medical cards, this might appear to be a small matter, but it is significant. Last week, the Minister cheerlead on the benches and gave the budget a standing ovation. When I raised this matter in May, the Minister gave an identical response. The commission completed its report...
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I will ask it. The Minister does not have a plan. He is prevaricating and sitting on the issue. Public money is being squandered, yet the Minister has not responded to a matter raised with him six months ago. He has done nothing in that period except to give me the same answer that he gave then.
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: When will the Minister make a decision, scrap the project and stop wasting taxpayers' money? Is he in a position to inform the House that the project has been scrapped and will not be used in the European or local elections and that he has an exit strategy?
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I have the answer here.
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Nearly six months ago, the Minister stated he was examining the issue and that the machines' use in the local elections was unlikely.
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Since his statement this afternoon is the same, he has done nothing in the past five months. Since the matter was last raised during Question Time, what has the Minister done about it?
- Election Management System. (23 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Is the Minister going on record to state he commissioned a report in the past five months?
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (22 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Defence if the two Ukrainian crewed helicopters hired to support Irish troops serving with EURFOR in Chad are still available; if these helicopters are certified to carry passengers; the cost to date of hiring these aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35882/08]