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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (3 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of LIHAF funding drawn down in County Meath to date by project in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40204/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: Two weeks ago, I questioned the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, Deputy Naughten, on the independent report into the viability of undergrounding the EirGrid North-South interconnector power line which it is proposed will traverse counties Meath, Cavan and Monaghan. He stated that he was to bring the report to the Cabinet. Has a memo on the issue been brought...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: What does it say?

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (2 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: 417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent occupational therapist posts in primary care in CHO 8 areas in counties Louth, Meath, Laois, Offaly, Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39856/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (2 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent occupational therapists posts in social care in CHO 8 areas in counties Louth, Meath, Laois, Offaly, Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: 421. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 13 June 2018, the status of his engagement with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry [39880/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: This issue has rolled on and on. On the "This Week" programme on RTÉ Radio 1 last Sunday, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, again defended the scheme in spite of the fact that only six communities across the country have taken up the CCTV scheme. He put the onus back on local communities and did not address the fundamental questions raised by the committee in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries (27 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the members of Cork County Council to discuss the issues of concern expressed by it in respect of the city council boundary expansion, specifically in the areas of financial settlement arrangements, outstanding charges from the development contribution scheme and transfer of liabilities, respectively;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an explanation was sought from the relevant local authority CEOs or the Housing Agency as to the reason only 2,717 units were taken up by county councils when a total of 6,984 social housing units were offered to their sector by NAMA. [39009/18]

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Minister of State is compounding the errors.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: That is some charge. The Minister talks about making charges against Deputy Mattie McGrath and not denigrating. That is some charge.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: The fox in the henhouse.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: This morning the local newspaper in that town, theDrogheda Independent, has a front page story arguing that on this very issue it is time to get the power back. That town has felt the loss of those decisions. We will not oppose this Bill on Second Stage because as I said, we believe that any advancement of democratic institutions is to be welcomed. We made a firm commitment to town...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: As the advancement of local government and the need to take centralised power from the Custom House is something about which I am passionate, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this subject this afternoon. Indeed, I introduced a Bill on behalf of Fianna Fáil on the re-establishment of town councils last year, which was brought through Second Stage and committee scrutiny...

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook (Resumed): Minister of State at the Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will be very brief. I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to be present at the committee meeting and for engaging on this issue. We have gone through this on numerous occasions at the petitions committee and I have raised it with the Minister of State in the Dáil. I wish to touch on the issue of the additional charges. I note what the Minister of State said in his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties Data (26 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full register of State-owned land in County Meath which has been ascertained by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39014/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will tell Members where he and members of the Sinn Féin Party were. I travelled 200 yards around the corner and there he was with a bundle of leaflets on the street in Athboy, handing out Sinn Féin's diatribes and propaganda. He could not walk the 200 yards to meet the 32 families who were given the keys to their new homes that morning. I find it rich that Sinn Féin...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: The party does spin like it is going out of fashion. It does not have any sense of conviction. The example of Deputy Peadar Tóibín handing out propaganda on the street, while families were being given homes, sums it up and shows that the party is not fit to be represented in this Chamber.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the opportunity to speak with my colleagues on the issue that is dominating the public forums of debate in this country. What strikes me most from those discussions is that what should unite us is a real desire among us all to deal with this issue because no matter what political badge we might wear on election day, the reality of homelessness, the pressure of renting, and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: I welcome Mr. Fraser. I want to touch on expanding on the net programme costs of the Presidency and the true reflection of the course born. The Comptroller and Auditor General's short opening statement refers to the appropriation accounts and gross expenditure of €3.6 million but, as has been pointed out by Mr. McCarthy himself, when one goes to page 7 of the appropriation accounts,...