Results 1-20 of 1,956 for speaker:Pat Casey
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I will start with the need for a new planning Bill. Any of us who have been on local authorities and trying to navigate the existing planning legislation will understand the need to overhaul it. I acknowledge the role this Government played in this regard because many other governments thought about doing it and ran away from it. However, this Government took it on and has now produced a...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Senator Dolan was first to indicate.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Senator Flynn may speak in turn. Senator Moynihan is next.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I was not going to say anything on this until Senator Martin made a few comments with which I cannot agree. My first issue is with his generalisation that local authority members and local authorities themselves basically did nothing only zone land that was in flood zones or that would potentially cause flooding on housing estates further down the road. That is an inaccurate perception of...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: This is a debate on the section.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I thank the Senator.In general terms, we are stretching far outside section 1 of the Bill, which clearly outlines the Bill itself. I am not going to take any more contributions on this. Can I ask that section 1 stand-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I will bring the Minister of State back in on that if he wishes to speak.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Amendment No. 6 cannot be moved.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Sorry, through the Chair.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: We will get an answer from the Minister of State now.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Short-term lets come under section 8. We are dealing with section 7.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Sorry, Senator.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Amendment No. 17 is in the names of Senators Moynihan, Sherlock, Hoey and Wall. Amendments Nos. 17 to 28 inclusive, are related. Amendments Nos. 22 to 28, inclusive, are physical alternatives to Amendments No 21. Amendments Nos 25 and 26 are physical alternatives to Amendment No. 24. Amendments Nos. 17 to 28, inclusive, may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I welcome everybody and thank them for their statements. I also welcome the wide and diverse groupings we have had throughout the consultation process - today is our last such consultation - which has been very interesting. I agree with what the rapporteur said about the library and research document. It would be no harm, when that is finalised, that it be sent to all the contributors. It...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: It is all about trying to increase participation in local democracy. This is where we have to think about this third layer of government and what that is. Is it town councils or is it an expansion of the municipal district councils? We have to be honest with ourselves that the role of a councillor is now almost a full-time one. There is no point trying to fool ourselves in that respect....
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)
Pat Casey: I thank the Minister of State. Before I bring in anyone else, I welcome Marguerite O'Loughlin and her colleagues to the Public Gallery. They are very welcome to Leinster House and I hope they enjoy their day here. While we have finished the item, I will allow brief comments.