Results 341-360 of 1,926 for speaker:Pat Casey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Perhaps the Deputy requires a one-to-one meeting with the council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I have to be fair to everybody here. We will start with Mr. Walsh and work our way down the table.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I was going to go to Ms Geraghty from Fingal County Council next, to try to answer Deputy Coppinger's questions, as soon as Mr. Walsh is finished, because he is the chairman of Waterford County and City Council-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: We will try to facilitate a written answer to the Deputy's questions if that is acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: In fairness, I have to prioritise the committee members and I will do that in respect of Deputy Coppinger. Depending on how much time I have, I will try to come back to Deputy Barry. If he has to go at 12 o'clock, it is now one minute past and he is not going to be here for the answer. I am facilitating him by getting a written answer to him in respect of the questions he has asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Thank you, Mr. Walsh. We will go to Ms Geraghty, to answer Deputy Coppinger's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank Mr. Flynn. I am conscious of the time. We were meant to be finished at 12 noon. I will go back to the Cork City Council witnesses now who may wish to respond on the more general items. As Deputy Barry has left, there is no point in responding to the specific question he asked. The witnesses might communicate directly with him in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Rather than dealing with it here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Do members want further clarification?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I will go back to Mr. Flynn to answer Deputy Cowen's question specifically and then I will ask Mr. Walsh to give a general summary of all the other issues because we must get out of here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: Ms Geraghty wishes to make a brief contribution, and then I will call Mr. Walsh to sum up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: I call Mr. Walsh, on behalf of the CCMA, to wrap up the debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Pat Casey: If the CCMA has any clear recommendations that it believes could change matters, perhaps they could forward them to the committee in order that we might consider them and bring them into the equation. I wish to take this opportunity to thank all the witnesses for attending and engaging with the committee. I am sure we will have an opportunity another day to do the same again.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Development (11 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: 706. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consultation has taken place with her Department regarding the proposed sale of a film studio (details supplied); if so, the dates of such consultations; the outcome of such consultations in view of the strategic importance of the studio in the future development of the film industry both nationally and for the mid-east...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be fairly brief. Dr. Hearne provided a statistic that Austria has 24% social housing. Ireland has a social housing stock of 9%. I wonder is that the solution, and should our aim be, at a minimum, to achieve the average European level, which is 17% social housing stock? If we achieve that, would we be protected from the housing bubbles and the boom and burst cycles we seem to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: I will be as brief as I can. First, I acknowledge the work that the Department has done in terms of what it has achieved, such as 3,000 exiting homelessness. Equally, however, we must acknowledge that the cumulative effect of homelessness is continuing to rise. While 3,000 exit, another 3,000 plus replace them. On the use of hotels as emergency accommodation, is there evidence to show...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: I wish to share time with Deputies Cassells and Curran.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: All of the evidence and data point to the fact that the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse. It is depressing, a scandal and wrong. What frustrates me most is a first-time Deputy is that it does not need to be this way. I have stated repeatedly that this Dáil will be judged on its response to the housing crisis. I have not changed that view. In fact, I consider that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which it is proposed to reduce the long waiting times being experienced by children in County Wicklow that are in need of an assessment for occupational therapy. [40995/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Pat Casey: I thank the Minister for coming in this morning. I appreciate all of the work that has been done and the progress that has been made on the issue of homelessness but it is an escalating crisis month on month. Do we have data on or do we hold interviews with the people who are becoming homeless to identify the reasons behind homelessness? If we have that data can it be shared with the...