Results 4,481-4,500 of 6,910 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: NAMA will not go beyond 10%. Will the Minister issue it with some new order to go beyond it?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are two NAMA estates in my constituency. That is how I know.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It will only be 10% unless the Minister makes it otherwise.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not a fact, actually.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not a fact.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They did not refuse thousands in Dublin.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The number was 2,000 around the country.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It suits the Deputy to keep invoking those numbers.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: No, it is a factual statement.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, NAMA spent very little on doing up properties for social housing in proportion to its budget. I will get the figures for the Minister if he so wishes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What was its overall budget?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Not out of €36 billion. I will look up the figures.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I clarify something? We have the managers from the local authorities next. Will there be another presentation by the Department?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are being taken together. Is that correct?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On a point of procedure, Mr. Cummins appeared before the committee previously but I think people would like to hear what each local authority's plans are.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I just thought they might be able to tell us.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I think it is 1 million.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a question about that?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very disheartening to hear local authority managers arguing against social housing on the scale that is needed. That is how it can be interpreted. I know some of the witnesses personally and have had dealings with them. I do not believe that is their belief, but it is as if they have absorbed this philosophy that is coming. Some 390,000 local authority houses were built in the last...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I raise another matter on which Mr. Brady may wish to comment. I live in a mixed-tenure estate. I do not know if other people do. There were 200 private, 400 affordable mortgage and 100 for local authority tenants. It works very well. I favour affordable mortgages because people have an issue with wanting to buy their houses. I think Mr. Brady or whoever is in Fingal now would back me...