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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: What happened there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: It cannot be changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: We have already heard that BAM, the contractor, priced a particular change at €25 million and said it would take months to complete. It eventually cost €200,000 and was done in a matter of weeks. That was stated on the record of this committee. I share the view expressed by Deputy Cullinane about it being unseemly and unedifying. The public is aghast. However, there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I thank the Chair for that intervention. I am not suggesting anything more. We have heard from the board that claims made by BAM were not stood up by the conciliator or, when they were settled, were settled for a fraction of what BAM was seeking and they are now resolved. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: It amounts to a single-figure percentage of what was originally claimed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I will come to Mr. Tierney with my last question and maybe this is a roundabout way of getting to the heart of some of the things that went on. We went to the new national maternity hospital and the Minister has mentioned a number of new hospital projects that are going to be undertaken under his stewardship, which I welcome. What are the significant lessons learned? What are the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance before the committee on this very important matter. The Minister will take away with him the fact that the committee remains acutely concerned about the issues arising from the development of the national children's hospital. We will be monitoring it closely. Having visited, we know that, in spite of everything we have said today,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This matter is a very important one for the Department of housing and I thank the Deputy for raising it. It is very important that local authority tenants who are occupying social housing properties and paying weekly rents are living in homes that provide good comfort levels for their occupants. The Deputy will be aware that in accordance with section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, local...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The response identifies something I have already acknowledged-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, I know.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----in terms of the internal work. We informed residents about this. However, this is tinkering around the edges until the fundamental issue is grasped, and I urge Cork City Council to grasp it. I also believe, however, that one of the obstacles to this is the lack of a clear funding stream for the regeneration of flat complexes. Obviously, general funding is available for maintenance...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That will not be fixed as an "as and when" issue. There are still issues with cold, damp and water. I hope the Minister of State will bring this matter to the Minister. I will certainly continue to raise it because the tenants of these flats deserve a lot better than what they are getting at this time.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy is correct. I recall a number of examples of complete regeneration projects in Dublin, including right in the heart of the north inner city and in Dolphin's Barn where flats were beyond their lifespan in the way described by the Deputy. A completely different regenerative approach was necessary but it was largely driven by Dublin City Council in the first instance and supported...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 10.05 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 9 Deireadh Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 10.05 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 9 October 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (8 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply and the various details supplied. She indicated that crews are out working to facilitate the lifting of the boil water notice. It would be very reasonable for people locally to know what it is the crews are doing. What is Irish Water doing? What action is being taken? What did Irish Water do have the original boil water notice lifted on 25...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (8 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could not agree more. It appears that the issues which give rise to the necessity for boil water notices can be easily understood and communicated. They can sometimes be persistent. I have an issue in my area whereby after very heavy rainfall, people are aware that there will some difficulties for a very particular reason and that there is a longer term strategy to remedy the problem....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Housing Provision
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I bring to the attention of the Minister of State six blocks of flats in the Togher area. They are all of the same type, and I will come to that in a while. These flats at Cherry Tree Road, Hazel Road, Sycamore Place, Maple Place, Togher Road and Clashduv Road were built in the 1970s by what was then Cork Corporation. The flats are part of a very strong community in the Togher area, but on...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: There is a lot of high-level gobbledegook in that response - SRMTs reporting to chief officers and stuff like that - but the reality is that while the outcome of the Brandon report was supposed to be the decongregation of the facility where Brandon lived, it has not been. I have been dealing with this since about 2016. That it has not been decongregated yet is down to HSE management not...