Results 4,801-4,820 of 6,910 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very rarely that I find myself agreeing with Deputy Durkan on anything.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I agree that the local authorities must be key to delivering social housing as they delivered it in the past for 80 to 90 years, although there is now another agent, which is NAMA. We have NAMA as a separate issue but it could be asked to deliver much more social housing. Its representatives should come in soon after that session. The role of the local authorities and NAMA must be teased...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I was just going to say that either at that session or a later one, we need to have those people in because they are at the epicentre of the tsunami.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. I did make it, in the submission, and you have not done it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We need to talk about social housing, though, which is what we are talking about right now.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I very much doubt that the Deputy has read anything that any of those people have written.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I will raise my hand to indicate I wish to speak.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not agree with the idea from the two previous speakers that we should not hear other points of view outside of the people who are already in the local authorities and in Government. The reason I said I doubt if the Deputy has read books on social housing is that in the past five years there has been no vision in terms of providing local authority and public home building. These people...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The REIT issue is an important discussion because it is the basis for and the beginning of a lot of homelessness. I agree with some of the suggestions made by Deputy Ó Broin. Threshold runs a massive helpline and is at the cutting edge of the matter. I agree also with the inclusion of the PRTB. In addition - I do not know if it will be in this forum, perhaps the Chair could clarify -...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: In my submission I suggested Professor P. J. Drudy from Trinity College Dublin to speak on rent controls. It depends on what aspect is to be taken and if we are to look at the legal question. It was suggested that rent controls are unconstitutional and I do not know if the committee will look at that separately.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. Professor Drudy could be invited to give the committee an overview on rent controls.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I want some clarity about what this session is meant to be about. As I have said already, I have something of an issue with having an entire session on private housing. Private housing is not affordable and that is the problem. It is fine if that is what we are discussing, but some people simply want to increase housing supply. As I said at the outset, we can increase housing supply as we...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Two thirds of people rely on the private housing sector but that is why we have problems because housing is primarily for speculation. In that session we must consider the factors that have led to houses being so expensive. This is where we should bring in somebody who has studied land ownership and speculation. We suggested in our submission Conor McCabe, who has written Sins of the...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: One of those people.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Are we all agreed that we are inviting the CEO and the chair of NAMA? That would be Brendan McDonagh and Frank Daly.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I know what the Deputy is saying but there is no harm in having somebody in who also has issues to raise about NAMA.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: This is a difficult issue because we could all suggest many groups. We may need more than one session on homelessness because this is the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. There was a debate during the previous meeting about inviting organisations or those who are directly affected to come before the committee. We have to do both. It would send out a terrible message if the committee...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: You cannot-----