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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It concerns the investment strike of capital among private developers. The chief executive officer of NAMA referred to developers not being happy with a profit of €20,000 to €40,000 on a house that they might build in Dublin. Relying on the private sector to resolve the housing crisis will not work and the Minister has said that developers are hoarding land. Will he accept...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The situation could not get any worse, in fairness.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Oh, it will be signed on Tuesday?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, can I make a point? The Minister supplied an incorrect figure. He said that 30% was being spent in Dublin, but 60% of the housing need is in Dublin, according to Mr. Cummins who was before this committee on Monday last.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, but 60% of the housing need is in Dublin.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister gave a wrong impression.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a third of the figure for 2008 so how could it be the largest? The Minister keeps saying this.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Quinlivan raised a particular point. This seems to have become a theme in recent days. If we continue to look at small-scale social housing projects we are never going to deal with the housing crisis. That must be grasped and accepted by everyone. The idea that we can build ten houses here, 20 houses there and 30 elsewhere makes no sense. We are not going to house 100,000 families...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The committee needs answers about the cost of houses. The Housing Agency seems to be doing a lot of research. Perhaps it could send us some details. What percentage of the cost of a social home - which averages €180,000 depending on where it is located - does Mr. Skehan believe is made up of elements of finance or profit, labour and materials, land, risk and development...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is there any proof that every location where there is social housing is a ghetto? That is what Deputy Durkan is suggesting.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan said 40-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: No, I said-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan is not the only one who-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan does not have to shout. I can hear him.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I spoke after the Deputy.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: If there is to be an increase in the amount of public housing that is to be built, which I hope there will be, the question is who is best placed to do it. I completely understand why the question of housing agencies working in niche areas - to use that expression - such as those relating to elderly people and disabled people cropped up. These were people who understood the needs of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why she applied a negative re-evaluation of deferred defined pensions; if she has assessed the impact this will have on pensions paid to deferred defined benefit pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8709/16]
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: So our taxes always paid for it-----