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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I will wait.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I am more interested in the review process at this stage. Does it start in June or will the review be completed in June? I have been given information that rent pressure zones can be excluded even though they have been included initially. If that is the case within a year many of the initial rent pressure zones will not qualify on the basis of one of the criteria because they will have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: Those are different criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: We have moved on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I do not have detailed information but I have had feedback that there are issues with certification in trying to convert vacant properties, especially over shops, in the context of access, particularly disability access. We all look at these buildings in towns in our constituencies and think they could become homes but there are blockages in the system preventing that from being achieved....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: In respect of the certification process, I am trying to get a better handle on how this will be certified at the end of the day because I can probably see some weaknesses in the system. I do not believe in signed certification or the authorised certifier. I would prefer if it was an in-house function in the local authority and was done from the start. This is a highly complex situation in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: On supply, there is information coming back that there is a blockage in trying to get apartments up and running in Dublin and on the impediments in that regard. Have we identified the reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: Are we finished completely now? I should mention the Tyrrelstown amendment before we depart the building. We all had concerns before Christmas about the argument over whether it would be 20, ten or five and back to ten again. Then we were informed that the Attorney General gave strong evidence that it should be ten. In light of the information the Minister has given us, we would say that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I want to focus on the public consultation process. I will refer to the current Vartry project. It is to be hoped lessons have been learned from that project in regard to public consultation. In that case, we did not bring the public with us. The public were not informed of the project and the impact it would have on the Vartry River. The initial application did not contain an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I live beside the Vartry reservoir. This is the first time in its history it has not filled over the winter. We are now in mid-February and it is still almost empty. The impact of that will not be felt until later on this year; the springs around it are only filling up with the water that is there. There is no doubt there is a need for a new supply for Dublin. This is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: To further expand on the issue of the district metering, Mr. Grant said there are over 4,400 district meters in Ireland. Does that include additional metering that the local authorities put in over the years when leaks were identified in various areas or they are separate meters? The other question on the metering process and the leakage, am I correct to say that 70% are on the public side...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Refurbishment (14 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: 125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Wicklow town courthouse is one of the seven courthouse refurbishment works included under action No. 102 of the action plan for rural development over the next two years at a cost of €135 million; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7281/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be brief. I want to return to a point my colleague Deputy Lahart raised earlier about what we call individual supplies and group water scheme supplies. It is quite interesting to hear the low percentages in both areas. It is significantly higher here. My question is about the initial capital investment into both hamlet schemes and individual schemes. What level of support is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Sector (2 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: 155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his Department's guidelines and regulations for a company (details supplied); the timeframe for the working group to report on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5163/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank both organisations for their presentations here this morning. I want to focus mainly on the vacant properties. While it has been identified as one of the immediate solutions, my fear is we might move too fast on vacant properties, especially when we look outside the Dublin area at more rural towns. I am concerned that we might not plan for such conversions and would get the wrong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: We could not print the appendix.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: Is it this one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: I welcome Mr. John O'Connor, Mr. David Silke and Ms Isoilde Dillon from the Housing Agency and Mr. Michael Walsh, Ms Catherine Keenan and Mr. Joe McGuinness from the CCMA. Before we begin, I draw the witnesses' attention to the fact that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: What is working and not working in the repair to lease and the buy to renew schemes? What changes would the Housing Agency recommend before the Minister rolls them out nationally?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Pat Casey: 73. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be any increase in the number of home help hours provided in 2017 in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4694/17]