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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I did not use the word "ignored". I said the Minister had characterised it as a challenge and a shortage, rather than as an emergency and a crisis.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The difference with vulture funds is that they buy huge numbers of properties at one time and that they also sell them en massein this way. That has been the experience of 40 families in one estate in Tyrrelstown. Therefore, vacant possession can be sought to sell a property in this country. That is the aspect that these funds cite. The Minister does not seem to have an understanding of...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It would be important to bring Revenue representatives before the committee and to raise this with them. It is a problem that can be easily dealt with by outlawing it. That would be very easy to do.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Why would any bricklayer suddenly want to become self-employed? What has been going on is obvious and I hope the committee brings in the Revenue Commissioners to discuss the issue

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The issue concerns the bricklayers who are being forced into becoming self-employed.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: People's hearts are bleeding out there.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Brett said in his introduction that homelessness is largely a supply issue, but homelessness is being caused by repossessions by the banks. It is not just a supply issue. People in houses are being put out of them, otherwise homelessness would not be increasing. It is not just supply and Mr. Brett needs to correct this. The biggest reason I see for people being made homeless now is...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the witnesses answer my question as to whether the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland will develop a voluntary code of not evicting people, given that this is the biggest cause of homelessness?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It would be the best thing Mr. Brett could do to stop homelessness.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We all had questions about approved housing bodies and I spoke to the credit unions earlier. I certainly do not see the approved housing bodies as being the solution to, or ending, the housing crisis in that they are too small-scale and the resources would be better given to local authorities but it would be a stretch to blame the approved housing bodies for causing the housing crisis. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Student Accommodation (4 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will assist the Students Union in the University College Dublin with its promotion of the rent-a-room scheme following his meeting on 2 September 2015 with the president of the union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9067/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: What is the CIF's view on the report at the weekend inThe Sunday Business Post that NAMA has allowed 80 major property developers to walk away from €1.5 billion of toxic debt? The write-off is equivalent to €19 million per developer. How does the CIF feel about this? Is that just? Has Mr. Parlon any views on it, given that ordinary mortgage holders are still being screwed to...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will others have a chance to come back in on the replies? I would have loved to.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The society is currently undertaking a house construction cost study, which is something that has obviously dogged everyone here. In the Irish Independenttoday, there is a report that the €300,000 starter house that everyone is talking about would actually cost €130,000. Mr. Parlon said in the previous session that it would be €150,000. It is just that. The committee...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Surely not.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (3 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There is a running theme in the contributions from some of the organisations today. The witnesses have echoed the calls for VAT to be cut, for the mortgage income multiple to be increased to 4.5, for more cuts to development levies and for rural renewal tax break schemes. A couple of aspects are unique to the representatives of the IPAV. One is that they want the Government to lend...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: My first point is that the Minister is not to blame for the housing crisis, although there is sometimes a tendency for him to get very defensive. However, he is answerable for the last number of years-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----when his party was in power and he has been in this Ministry. My first question is why the local authority housing targets are so low in the first place. The Social Housing Strategy 2020 has a target of 35,000 new units from 2015 to 2020, but only 11,200 are to be new social housing units to be built or acquired by councils or housing associations. If that is broken down, given there...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On the situation in Tyrrelstown, which the Minister mentioned and I thank him for agreeing to meet those concerned, will he ask local authorities to enact a measure to provide that if the council acquires homes that people are already renting, it cannot start to evict those people? A new scheme must be developed to allow people to purchase those houses, which they would be well able to...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Can I ask a final question?