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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I stand over-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I stand over what we are trying to do, which is to ensure than when children are growing up in the housing estates of the future, they all get the same opportunities and chances in life.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Coppinger does not like to hear that because it does not agree-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Coppinger can make her case and I can make mine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Coppinger can make her case and I will make mine, but I stand over it and we have a lot of evidence to back it up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is not about that, I am afraid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I do not want to waste the valuable time of the committee on a back-and-forth argument.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Just for the record for anyone who is listening, last week I was anxious to facilitate an off-the-record conversation within the Department so that people could understand what the policy document was all about. I was there for much of the meeting - I was unable to be there for all it - and there were no time limits on it. All of our top people here were there to answer individual questions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: We had a lengthy conversation on rapid build earlier. I do not think anybody should judge rapid build on the basis of one 22-unit estate. One can build one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom or five-bedroom units using rapid build.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: A total of 200 rapid build houses will be completed before the end of the year. We will have another 800-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: With respect, it is not just about the Deputy's area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I am answering it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I am answering the Deputy's question. Before the end of next year, 1,500 rapid build units will be built. They will be in multiple locations, primarily across Dublin. Different local authorities in Dublin are building different numbers and that is the way it will work. Many people thought HAP would not work in south Dublin either but 1,200 HAP tenancies have been set up there and more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----less than half of what was offered was taken up. NAMA was certainly very critical of that when it appeared before the housing committee. In respect of Senator Coffey's point, I am very conscious that many of the foundations on which we are trying build were put in place by Senator Coffey when he was Minister of State and by the former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: I have met local authorities but I have not met Fingal County Council yet. I have met South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council, Limerick City and County Council, Cork City Council, Kilkenny County Council and Carlow County Council and I am meeting Waterford County Council tomorrow. There are only so many days in the week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: The key solution lies with proper co-ordination, partnership and management across Dublin with the local authorities. Our officials are meeting with officials from all the key local authorities in Dublin on a regular basis to try to get solutions to homelessness. I suspect the Deputy knows that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Sorry, what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: Did Senator Boyhan want to ask a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Simon Coveney: First, on the points Deputy Ó Broin raised, I will come back with the detail on some of that.