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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: As an operator in the tourism industry, I acknowledge the important role short-term lettings platform play for the industry. Dr. Lyons referred to the housing crisis and the fact that these platforms are not having a huge impact relatively speaking. We are not going to solve the housing crisis with short-term lettings, but we are looking at whether it is having an effect on the homelessness...

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

Pat Casey: Deputy Ó Broin has probably addressed most of the information I was looking for. Working in the tourism sector myself, I know the value of the traditional bed and breakfast in earlier times. What we are looking at here is the impact on housing and specifically on the homelessness crisis. Like Deputy Ó Broin, I am not after the person sharing a room or sharing his or her house...

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

Pat Casey: Will the witness clarify the data that Airbnb shares with Revenue?

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

Pat Casey: Is that all revenue?

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?

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Pat Casey: The separation of powers in any republic is a delicate and essential balance to ensure citizens can make laws and have the law judged in an independent manner. In the Irish context, the broad history of the Irish judicial system is one that merits great praise. Our judges have in the main been independent, fair and sometimes quite brilliant in interpreting the laws of our Republic. Many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the gentlemen for their presentations and record my frustration that the issue has not been resolved. We were all aware of the role the credit unions could have played before Rebuilding Ireland was launched but almost a year later, we have made almost no progress. I focus today on approved housing bodies and the relationship with them. Is there enough governance in place in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I have a few brief questions and will commence by asking about finance and the application process. Can the organisations avail of different types or sources of funding? Have they experienced difficulties in accessing finance? Is there a criterion for approved housing bodies to categorise them as tier 3? Earlier Deputy Coppinger and I mentioned the regulation and governance of approved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be very brief because I think Deputy Ó Broin has covered nearly everything we need to say about this issue. We are hugely frustrated regarding why it has taken so long to get this money into the market. As a State, we have clearly said that we are moving more towards approved housing bodies to deliver the social housing stock, yet there is capacity to give them more funds and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I would like to get a better understanding in respect of on and off-balance sheet funding. My understanding is that where approved housing bodies obtain a loan, these are considered off-balance sheet and are not considered State debt. In cases where the funding is from a local authority, however, the loan is considered a State debt and on balance sheet. Mr. Carville referred to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: It is an important point. In most European countries, social housing stock is off-balance sheet and there are various different ways of achieving that. Most of ours is on-balance sheet because the local authorities carry the debt. I am going back to the indirect vehicle we are talking about. What I am trying to understand is that it is the approved housing body that receives the money,...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Housing and homelessness, as the Members and officials present know, is the most critical domestic problem facing people at this time. Children are spending years of their childhood in hotel rooms as a result of the lack of social and affordable housing. This is a terrible indictment of Government policy, particularly when there are more than 2,000 voids, the term used for empty and locked...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: My approach is one of common decency and compassion. I firmly believe the State has the responsibility to provide housing for those in our communities who cannot access it on their own. The more housing the State provides, the less it must depend on private landlords to provide stop gap solutions. We all have to accept that there is a social right to a home. I am more convinced than ever...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Wicklow as of 30 June 2017; and the number of new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [32876/17]

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: This is to ask the Minister the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Wicklow as at 30 June 2017, and the number of new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for his answer and welcome the progress on the numbers. Today, however, I am specifically focusing on Wicklow. County Wicklow requires a greater Garda deployment. We have only had nine new recruits since 2014. That is out of a total allocation of 1,000. Two of them have since resigned and 32 gardaí have left the division in the past 18 months. That is a net...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: It seems from the Minister's response that an additional nine recruits are to be deployed in County Wicklow. I was not aware of that but I welcome it nonetheless. I will give an example of rural crime in County Wicklow, which depends significantly on tourism. Two weeks ago, eight cars were broken into at the Shay Elliott car park in Glenmalure. Such incidents cast a bad reflection on...