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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I want to come back to the availability versus the booking issue. We need to get to the figures around availability because this would give the true indication of how often that property is actually available for short-term lettings. If I had a property registered with Airbnb tomorrow morning, can Airbnb track if I put my availability up or down at any stage, whether it is booked or not?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: Our problem, however, is that we are trying to identify the people who are short-term letting their premises on a long-term basis. That is where we need to get. Nobody here is concerned about genuine people who are just sharing their rooms or homes. We need to get to the properties that are let longer term. Mr. Robinson is telling the committee that this data is available. If the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: It would tell them. It may then be up to the person to ensure they are only uploading the availability of the premises for when it is actually available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I want to come back in again on this and give an example. Let us say we brought in regulation tomorrow morning that any entire property available on Airbnb's platform for 90 days or more requires a licence or planning permission and that is the rule. Could Airbnb then inform the Department of a property exceeding the 90 days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I have a few quick questions. My interaction the last day was about the infrastructural fund and the logic around rolling that out over a four-year period instead of advance-funding it all at one time. Do fiscal rules prevent that €200 million from being rolled out? As I pointed out the last time, if we are not rolling the last €50 million out for another four years, it could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I am coming back for the planning Bill. If I understood correctly, I think it will come into play on Monday and there is an information session on Wednesday. Have the developers had much engagement with the board on the fast-track planning process? I have a specific point, that I raised with the Department directly. During the passage of the fast-track planning legislation in the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Assets (27 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 139. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the proposed sale of the State's 32% shareholding in a studio (details supplied); if she will consider cancelling the sale, transferring the shareholding to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and investing in the growth of the film industry; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (27 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the onshore wind farm policies in terms of minimum distances, in view of the planning applications of large industrial wind farms in south County Wicklow and the large opposition to these developments by local residents and communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29725/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: Deputy Cowen focused on Pillar 1 so I will focus on Pillar 2, and specifically the social housing construction programme. I wish to state that committee members were delighted to get all of the data in the open format and Excel format. They have made it a lot easier to follow what is happening. Is it possible to provide each project with a unique identification number? I make the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I do not want to go back to the rapid builds. Last year I visited the Poppintree project and I can say that we were all very impressed with the houses that have been built. Equally, we have done an injustice to rapid build technology. As I have repeatedly stated, we seem to define a rapid build house as an inferior project. It is not an inferior product. One gets a longer guarantee for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I feel disappointed because we were told this time last year that the problems were fixed and that we were not going to run into the delays that we had envisaged for the first 22 units. Yet it is now June 2017 and we only 22 units. The maximum that will be delivered by the end of the year is an additional 177 units. That is 800 units short of the stated target. I know there are reasons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I am just asking. I think we will all be out of here at 5 o'clock anyway, so I may as well get as much in as I can. I want to go back to a statement made by the former Minister, Deputy Coveney, in the Dáil last week or the week before. He stated that no local authority had been refused a construction project. I find that hard to believe, unless there is a pre-consultation process...

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the Chair. Should I move our amendment now?

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I also send my congratulations to the Minister and the Minister of State across the Chamber. I welcome this motion tonight as it is an area of housing policy on which I have been working on the joint committee for housing, planning, community and local government, and with my colleagues in Fianna Fáil over the last number of months. Before I came into the Chamber, I went on the...

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

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. At the outset, I would like to declare that I am tourism service provider in the Wicklow area. As such, I have an understanding of the importance of Airbnb and other platforms to the tourism industry. They are a vital part of the industry. In terms of this discussion, we need to focus on the impact of short-term lettings on the housing...

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

Pat Casey: Is the source of these data www.insideairbnb.com?

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

Pat Casey: When the committee tries to use www.daft.ie, we are told it is not a proper analysis of the market. I am not sure who is behind insideairbnb.comand if it is accurate information, which is a concern. Is there an independent analysis of the figures for the short-term letting market?

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

Pat Casey: The Airbnb figures are the only data available and they state that south Dublin does not have an issue as there are only 220 listings. Fingal probably does not have an issue, with 500, and Dún Laoghaire is in a similar position with only 600. In Dublin city, 5,400 properties are listed on Airbnb. The magic number, that is when a person breaks the regulations and becomes liable for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 70. To ask the Minister for Health the reason behind the 11% reduction in home help hours in County Wicklow for January to April 2017 relative to the same period in 2016. [29087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the Revenue Commissioners deducting household charge arrears from local property tax payments without providing invoices and receipts of such payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27626/17]