Results 2,061-2,080 of 6,728 for speaker:John Curran
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Let us be clear. If the people to whom Deputy Coppinger referred have not been included at the end of the schedule, can she please bring it up again?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Is that fair enough to all members? Agreed. With regard to the private rental sector, and I do not want a debate on the sector, I am looking for names of those whom the committee would wish to invite in as witnesses.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I am not disagreeing with the issue but does the Deputy, or any member of the committee, have a speaker specifically in mind?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We have a section on legal issues generally.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Are there further suggestions for a speaker on the private rental sector?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: The rent supplement issue, specifically.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Deputy, you are getting into the substance of it and my view-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I was trying to be helpful. I was going to say that when we have representatives from the Department of Social Protection before us, the Deputy will be in a position to probe that issue.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: No-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: There are two elements to it. They will be advised of the issue. We can advise them of the issue.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: However, the second part of it is that we may discover, as the issue is probed, that another Department or agency has an input as well and we may need to add that in at a later stage.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: The point I was trying to make is that it might not totally reside-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: We will do it. My only proviso was that it may go somewhere else.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Does anyone else wish to comment on this section?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: Yes, because it affects the market.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: No. 4 relates to private housing. Who are our potential witnesses?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: John O'Connor will be in this Thursday with the Housing Agency. By the way, some of these people will overlap. At the meetings we will have to allow some degree of latitude to broaden the questioning.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I will come back to you on that in a moment.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I have considered this, based on the submissions, to be the physical building and provision of new houses rather than the mortgage and financing side. It could be included with No. 10. This is primarily about the provision of houses. As others have said, there is no construction. To Deputy Coppinger, this committee is focused primarily on social and affordable housing but we have to...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
John Curran: I do not disagree but I am conscious of the timeframe in which we are operating. It would be impossible to invite everyone.