Results 2,601-2,620 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: 399. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government since its creation the number of housing units the National Asset Management Agency made available to Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, South Dublin County Council and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council respectively for use as social housing; if he will provide a breakdown housing type namely house or...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: 400. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government since its creation, the number of housing units the National Asset Management Agency has made available to each local authority for use as social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24578/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Committee (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: As we have a quorum of six members, including one Teachta Dála and one Senator, we will commence the meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. I wish to advise members that they must turn off their mobile phones when attending the committee. RTE will not broadcast any interference from mobile phones. Apologies have been received from Deputies Noel Coonan, Michael McCarthy and Catherine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: We will now consider the general scheme of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill with representatives of St. Andrew's Resource Centre, Ringsend Community Services Forum, the Inner City Renewal Group, Dublin City Council community forum, and the Dublin Docklands Community Liaison Committee. I welcome Ms Betty Ashe and Ms Dolores Wilson from St. Andrew's Resource Centre;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank Ms Ashe. As the representatives of the Ringsend Community Services Forum have not yet arrived, I will allow them to contribute on their arrival. I invite Mr. Seanie Lambe of the Inner City Renewal Group to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I wish to ask one question regarding the housing trust. Legislation is currently going through the House on the sale of local authority properties and voluntary properties. Voluntary housing has not, as yet, come on to the market. Does the memorandum of association for the housing trust fall under the voluntary housing area? If so, would it be affected by the new legislation going through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: So it would be caught with the new legislation concerning the differential sale of properties. Has Mr. Lambe looked at that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I am very sympathetic. There has been quite a lobby for voluntary housing. Up to now, voluntary housing has not been covered by the sale of city council houses. A Bill is going through the House at the moment and there is quite a lobby to include voluntary housing in the sale of properties. I wonder how that would affect Mr Lambe's housing trust. I want to make him aware that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Has Mr. Lambe finished his presentation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I now call on Mr. Robert Moss of the Dublin City Community Forum to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank Mr. Moss for his opening statement. I now call on Ms Frances Corr of the Dublin Docklands Community Liaison Committee to make her submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank Ms Corr and everyone else for their submissions. Before I open the meeting to questions from other members, I note that although the things that went wrong within the Dublin Docklands Development Authority are often pointed out, its successes are not mentioned often enough. Ms Corr and Mr. Lambe covered some of those successes in their submissions. Certainly, the community came up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: To whom in Dublin City Council is Mr. Lambe referring? Does he mean the executive or the elected councillors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: The elected councillors will do the nominations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I imagine the list would be drawn up by the elected councillors rather than the executive. We can clarify this in the Bill. When he came before the committee, Mr. Owen Keegan, the Dublin city manager, had the view that he would be drawing up the list, but it has since been clarified that it will be the elected councillors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I imagine both. The nominations would go to the councillors from those nominating bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: They will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Mr. Moss's submission refers to temporary usage of land for urban gardening or greening. Something given temporarily is always very difficult to get back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Does he have procedures in mind that work?