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Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very apt that we are having a discussion in the Dáil on this issue because there has been an air of unreality about the proceedings of the Dáil for some time. We have not been discussing key issues that are taking place in society but the fact that seven people have been gunned down in the capital surely merits a little bit more intervention by the Government, preoccupied as...

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

Ruth Coppinger: May I clarify if there are many more questioners? I have to go to the Chamber to speak.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Is it okay if I go now and come back?

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

Ruth Coppinger: Three more people are due to speak after this.

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

Ruth Coppinger: I probably do not have time to ask all the questions I would like to ask of the Minister. They relate to his Department, the EU and capital spending on housing, vulture funds and real estate investment trusts, REITs, NAMA and relevant contracts tax, RCT, and the tax evasion going on in the building industry, which would fall under the Department of Finance as well. I was a bit...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I hope not.

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

Ruth Coppinger: They will be taken into account, right. The key point raised by many Deputies is if we stick with the type of capital investment in housing we have had for the past number of years we will not solve the housing crisis. It is not possible. Current social housing construction costs of €180,000 per unit mean that over five years only 13,000 units would be built if we kept and...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I did not say that.

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...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I assume we will get the additional three minutes taken by other speakers.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I can safely say I have never seen an incoming Taoiseach look so unhappy and there is a good reason for that.