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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Pat Casey: It would be great if we could get to a one-stage process. That is probably unrealistic, but equally we have to admit that there is duplication of the decision making process. I have not studied the latest report, which was issued last week, because it is not yet available in Excel format. We are still looking at it in PDF format. There were 508 projects going through the Departments....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank Deputies Gerry Adams and Seán Crowe for their presentations. My party supports the general principle of the Bill. Most of the issues have been raised. Deputy Ruth Coppinger raised much of the detail that needs to be thrashed out and evaluated. Senator Billy Lawless stated clearly the options we would be trying to put to the people. That is work we need to do. Deputy Eoin...

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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (20 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 885. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of newly attested Garda assigned to the Wicklow Division in 2017 in view of the need for increased gardaí in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28910/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Functions (20 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: 1590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding given by his Department to the Irish horse welfare trust in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form; the measures under which funding is provided; if his Department is satisfied that all governance matters in relation to the trust are adequate; and if he will make a statement on the...

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...

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]

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...

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...

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 (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...