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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The list is quite long. Is there anything that I have not covered so far that Senator Cummins wishes to highlight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreeable to members? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The Deputy is probably right that we should do that instead of trying to fit too much into one session. We will have to separate these issues out but it will also depend on the forthcoming legislation and on where we need to feed into it. We only have another 15 minutes left here and there are quite a number of suggestions to go through still. Would Senator Cummins spend two minutes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have the Estimates afterwards at 12.15 p.m., so we have to be out by 12 noon. I will leave it up to members. We can extend this discussion on the work programme into the next meeting rather than trying to rush through it here and miss stuff. Are members happy to do that? Our work programme is important and I do not want to rush it. We have been a bit rushed with meetings today and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I would rather do this in a more orderly way and make sure every member's voice is heard. Does Senator Cummins want to continue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The Senator does not need to go through them one by one because we have covered some of the stuff he has mentioned here. Are there any headline issues the Senator wants to raise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreed? Agreed. The turnaround time for properties would be covered under the repair and release section.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: It is in our correspondence. Well spotted, Senator Boyhan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I do not want to get into individual items right now, but I think what Senator Cummins is talking about is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The framework for the URDF and the rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, will be included in that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Senator Boyhan also referred to that in his submission, which I am coming to next, and it was referred to by others as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I call Deputy McAuliffe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have two minutes left. I will let Senator Boyhan in and then Senator Seery Kearney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have reached the time limit for this meeting and I am conscious that we still have not reached a number of Deputies' and Senators' submissions. I propose to address this next week and go through this list. For example, in the case of Deputy McAuliffe, we have covered construction defects and review of Multi–Unit Developments, MUDs, Act 2011 already. I will scratch those out and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have covered the Moorhead report but Rebuilding Ireland, architectural heritage and water have not been covered yet, so I will leave them on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I would like us to get to marine planning and development management as soon as we can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: It came through about having Covid and the sustainable development goals worked into the committee's policy and work. We note that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: What were they again?