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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I believe it is very dangerous to talk about removing the differential rent system from council or other tenants. Currently, most people pay approximately 30% of their income on rent. We do not want to see that happening to social housing tenants.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The strategic investment fund has approximately €4 billion and NAMA has approximately €3 billion in cash reserves.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is no consensus on it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Social Justice Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy is trying to find a consensus on something there is no consensus on.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We have heard that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We had two sessions on this issue.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There were specific-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the witnesses to the committee and thank the Peter McVerry Trust for raising the issue of housing, including radical measures to address the issue. Fr. McVerry was among those who warned long ago about what was coming down the line and the phrase "tsunami of homelessness" continues to resonate. The submission notes that we have a housing system rather than a housing market. The...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is listed under Members' interests.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Well I know-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy is listed as one.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Will we all get a chance to debate this now?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It was the building workers who built the units, actually.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I believe the building workers built them.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the delegates. I will take up the point on migrants because one in four people in the constituency I represent was born outside Ireland. Ours is the most diverse constituency. I wager that it has the highest level of homelessness in the country. I have been informed the Threshold helpline is mainly rung by people in the west and north Dublin, but we also have the figures for...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They are important questions.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Simon Communities of Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The delegation mentioned in its recommendations that the Government should be much more ambitious regarding the number of social houses it is to build. I welcome the statement that the Government should be aiming to build 50,000 social houses. Obviously, that is the focus of many homelessness agencies. I wish to query a number of points in the submissions. The delegates called for a...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Simon Communities of Ireland (26 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Recently, local authorities have been sidelined by the approved housing bodies because the Government is trying to get everything off balance sheet. The local authority in my area has had to hand over housing left, right and centre to approved housing bodies. It has hardly built anything for five years in Blanchardstown. I believe nothing has been built by the local authority in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The question is about the US.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to bring forward the restoration of pay and pay equality for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12995/16]