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Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I am not reading. I am telling Deputy Dooley straight.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Sinn Féin provided in its budget for 2016 an allocation-----

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----of €1 billion over 18 months, which it said would provide 6,000 units by direct build. That is less ambitious than what the Government has set out in its social housing strategy. The Government has committed over €4 billion over the next few years-----

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----for the provision of social housing. The Deputies should know, as former councillors, that one cannot build houses overnight. They must go through Part VIII in councils, tendering and then the construction must start. Yesterday we announced green lights for projects all over this country that will deliver housing units and over 3,000 jobs in the construction sector. This Government...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----see further phases and announcements over the coming months that will address the shortfall in housing at the moment.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy did not say that.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: We will build them this year.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: God, we will not.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Cowen asked about the number of units being delivered this year. He is not taking account of the €68 million that was provided for in last year's budget-----

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----for the commencement of over 50 construction projects, which are now coming on stream this year. Yesterday's announcement is in addition to that.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: They are direct build projects in local authority areas all over the country, including in Deputy Cowen's constituency.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Cowen and his party destroyed the social housing provision in this country.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This Government is working towards a sustainable construction sector, which would provide houses for all our people into the future. In response to Deputy Stanley, huge progress has been made in terms of the turnaround of voids in this country. He has already acknowledged that directly to the Minister, Deputy Kelly, and me in committee. Some 2,000 voids and boarded up houses have been...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: -----and another 1,000 will be turned around in the coming year. He is not taking account of the voluntary housing bodies, which will be announced very shortly.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: They will also contribute to the housing demand that is out there at the moment.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: He is not taking account of the acquisitions local authorities can make all over the country.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This Government is taking housing as a top priority and cleaning up the mess Fianna Fáil made.

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank all Deputies who have made a contribution to this evening's discussion. Having listened to the debate, the Minister for Finance is of the view that there is some common ground on both sides of the House in this matter. We are agreed to various degrees that in light of the recent concerns raised before the Houses of the Oireachtas and elsewhere regarding the Siteserv transaction and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The 2002 National Spatial Strategy(NSS) was Ireland’s first national strategic spatial planning framework and outlined policies and objectives to secure a better balance of social, economic and physical development and population growth between regions through the co-ordinated development of nine gateway cities and towns, and nine hub towns, together with complementary policies to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regional Development (6 May 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Under the Government’s Action Programme for Effective Local Government – Putting People First, the regional dimension to local government in relation to economic development has been considerably enhanced and reconfigured through the establishment of the new Northern and Western, Southern, and Eastern and Midland Regional Assemblies which will have a number of important new...