Results 781-800 of 10,635 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: I want to go back to the issue I raised earlier. It is not on the agenda for today but is an important issue. We have many housing estates, some built more than 20 years ago, which local authorities will not take in charge. Roads and footpaths are in poor condition. The reason local authorities will not take them in charge is Irish Water has not taken in charge the sewage treatment plants...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: There are 50 alone in County Cork.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Whether it is 450 or 500, it is still-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: It is still a very big number.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Can the Department not set out a clear plan with Irish Water whereby we have a target for each year of getting 40 or 50 off the system and taking them in charge? The estates are left there. Local authorities will not touch them. We are 20 years on in many of those housing estates and people are getting frustrated. They pay property tax and feel they get nothing back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Mr. Doyle might come back to me in the new year with a report and plan on dealing with this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Regarding taking charge of estates by local authorities where there is not a problem with Irish Water or an excuse, again the programme by local authorities seems to be going at a snail’s pace. They say they need to upgrade the estates before taking them in charge. What is the plan for that over the next two to three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Colm Burke: Thanks very much.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: I do not accept the answer to question No. 25, which related to a previous response that stated "the reason given was that 'will negate what we are trying to do'". Now they say it was contractual. It is not clear. I am concerned about a few things with regard to the replies. First, the legal person was at meetings but, at the same time, the document states that person did not take part or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: Surely when the person is there-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: Even if they were there and were not asked to give legal advice, if they are working for an organisation and decisions are being made that put that organisation at risk, surely they have a duty of care to advise and, for example, tell the meeting participants they cannot go down that road because it is not above board. Surely, that must be their role as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: Yes. That is the other thing. That is a very important point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: This goes back to what I said earlier about how the comparable funding now seems to be the same. According to the figures given today on the loans from the HFA, the same amount is going to the local authorities as to the approved housing bodies. There is an accountability issue with regard to the approved housing bodies. Do we not now need to look at this issue? Will we have problems in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: They are voluntary organisations in the sense they cannot be sold off to a commercial enterprise. There is accountability from this point of view. The amount of finance they are managing now is substantial. We need to ensure we have some oversight of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: Back in June and July a huge amount of work was done in a very short timeframe. The volume of work that was done in that period of time was tremendous. We could not have dealt with it without the information that was provided to us.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline in detail the progress that his Department has made to date, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, in the creation of a national biomethane development strategy plan through the new built environment and heat delivery task force; when it is envisaged that this strategy will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to reduce the timeline from when livestock in a herd have been tested and identified positive with tuberculosis and when these animals are removed from the herd, in view that the current average timeline is 17.3 calendar days from the date of test to the date of removal; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm what his Department’s plans are to recruit and retain childcare workers in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55729/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)
Colm Burke: 139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many parents and guardians will benefit from childcare measures announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55728/23]