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

Pat Casey: I will take questions from Deputy O'Dowd in this round.

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

Pat Casey: The Deputy must conclude.

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

Pat Casey: Every member was allocated five minutes. Deputy O'Dowd is now into his sixth minute.

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

Pat Casey: Does Mr. O'Sullivan wish to respond?

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

Pat Casey: I am sorry Senator, we will do a first round of questions and anyone who wishes to come in a second time may do so then. Did Mr. Geoghegan wish to say something?

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

Pat Casey: I will be brief. I want to discuss how information is presented to local authorities to provide a full understanding of the end of year financial statement. I wish people the best of luck in trying to relate an end of year financial statement to a budget book. We need to look at how the budget book is presented to councillors. In all fairness, trying to follow that budget book is an...

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

Pat Casey: Perhaps I should have asked about the methodology, the transparency of the general purpose grant and how it was calculated because there are discrepancies. As councillors, we all said that Dún Laoghaire was getting more and Wicklow was getting less and we asked how the general purpose was granted, what methodology was used and the transparency behind it. If it is not the baseline I am...

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

Pat Casey: I do not want to take much time but this is a critical point. We are arguing about the baseline, which goes back to 2008. The services provided by local authorities since then have increased enormously but the baseline has not moved with them. This is the problem we faced in the first session. The CCMA and the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, said the baseline needs to be...

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

Pat Casey: I need to go back to the baseline issue and I apologise for harking back to this. Did Mr. Lemass say that the Minister for Finance is considering the baseline with a view to changing it? Somebody is shaking their head to indicate no. Many local authorities are saying, and the witnesses have more or less confirmed this today, that the baseline has not been reviewed in 17 years. It was...

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

Pat Casey: I do not know that I am any clearer on that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: When will the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016 be completed? Will the Taoiseach confirm the Bill is required to place the national planning framework on a statutory footing? When does he envisage the House voting on the Bill given that it is due to be completed in December? Will he confirm to the House the exact sequence of events required for the adoption of the...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: The housing crisis is a perfect storm. Not one element of the housing sector is functioning normally. While I accept that this makes it difficult to address the crisis, if anything, the scale of the crisis dictates that the Government must respond with the same focus on pragmatic solutions as it put into communicating the crisis. Before referring to the private rented sector, I request...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Nov 2017)

Pat Casey: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school (details supplied); the progression of this project since its inception; the proposed completion date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/17]

National Planning Framework: Statements (26 Oct 2017)

Pat Casey: The national planning framework builds on the historic and internationally significant national spatial strategy that Fine Gael scrapped under their short-term approach in 2012. Now, accompanied by a new flashy website and jargon-driven Government spin, the national planning framework is being launched with more ministerial photos and introductory paragraphs than I can remember reading in a...

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: I will take questions from Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Jennifer Murnane O'Connor and I will then come back to the witnesses.

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: I now come back to Ms Ní Fhloinn and Ms Hegarty.

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: I am conscious of time as the meeting must conclude by noon. I ask the witnesses to be brief.

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: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank the witnesses for their attendance and apologise for the interruption. I am sure we will engage with them again as the Bill progresses. I propose we suspend for a few moments to allow the next group of witnesses to take their seats.

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: I welcome from the Construction Industry Federation, Mr. Tom Parlon, Mr. Mel O'Reilly and Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick and from the Construction Industry Register Ireland's admissions and registration board, Mr. Hank Fogarty and Mr. Liam Egan. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of evidence given to the joint committee....

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: I thank Mr. Fogarty. Before I take questions from the members, I want to make them aware we have to be out of the committee room by 12 noon. They should be as precise as possible with their questions and we will try to get the answers.