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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Department is still hundreds of euro behind what is the going rate. I do not agree with having to do this but I wish to point that out. The only effect is that landlords will not take people. We know a law was passed but landlords vet people when they get in the queue and ask them if they are on rent supplement. All that happens is that landlords will not take people on rent...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Does that apply to food?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Does Ms Tighe accept that people who are homeless or living in a hotel pay a lot more for food?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: If one cannot cook one has to eat out all the time.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That would be because there is no payment for it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: How many?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Ms. Faughnan might check that figure and forward it to us.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask, first, about accommodation standards; second, about the "populist left wing agendas" that the delegation highlighted; third, about the number of landlords; and, fourth, about taxes on profits. I will start with the great standards that the IPOA believes its members are maintaining in the private rental sector. Last year, Threshold received 1,836 queries relating to...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The IPOA is represented in the Dáil at a level five times greater than is the case with the population. In the UK, the number of landlords - 2% of the population - is approximately half that which obtains here. We are expected to believe that it is dreadful if the number of private landlords in Ireland does not increase, but the opposite is the case and we have too many private...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy did not have to assure us of that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sherry FitzGerald? That is just an oxymoron.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: If that is the case, why are the numbers going up?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The number is going up. That is my point.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. O'Brien is saying that it is going down.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am saying that the amount of private rented accommodation has increased.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. That is what they are.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I sought clarification on the figures, which are extremely important. According to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, both the number of tenancies and the number of landlords have increased. I will provide Mr. O'Brien with the figures because he indicated the number of landlords had not increased. Between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, the number of...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What I see is that higher rents are bringing landlords back into the marketplace.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They are highly relevant.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am in tears.