Results 30,521-30,540 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: Under Rebuilding Ireland, last year over 27,000 households had their housing needs met. The local authority stock of social housing increased by over 8,000 and this year the figure will be over 10,000. Last year 5,135 individuals exited homelessness into independent tenancies, an increase of 8% on the figure for the previous year. That is a record level of exits out of homelessness in a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: The number of social houses being delivered is higher than at any point in the last decade.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: The truth is there are more families and individuals entering homelessness than, I think, any of us in this House predicted.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: We need to respond from a policy perspective.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: My understanding is the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, will bring a proposal to protect tenants before the Cabinet next week. It will be tested in this House, as it should be. It is important for us to focus on where the problem lies. We are delivering more social houses and also more private and affordable houses, but we are not, unfortunately, overtaking the pace at which people are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: The Government intends to respond by providing more protections for tenants in order to keep them in their homes and out of homelessness.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: It is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: We have work to do to get families and individuals who are homeless into homes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: With a sense of urgency, we have changed the housing market in Ireland. We have introduced rent caps in rent pressure zones.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: They do work.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: In the last quarter of last year there was a slight reduction in rents. There has certainly been a levelling off in Dublin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: Two new areas have been added to the list of rent pressure zones. Is anybody in Navan actually rejecting this? I do not think so. They want to see rent pressure zones in the town in order that they will have more certainty when it comes to rent inflation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: We are increasing the powers of the RTB to make sure it is enforced.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: While we are changing the rental market, we have to increase supply. None of this will be resolved without an increased supply of affordable houses, social houses and rental properties.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: All of that is happening. Rebuilding Ireland is a five-year housing plan and we are three years into it. There are serious issues to deal with, but it is simply not true to say housing output is not increasing and that the rental market is not changing for the better. What we are not doing sufficiently is keeping people in their homes, whether it be a rental home or a home that is owned,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: If Deputy Pearse Doherty wants to have a serious debate about housing, let us stop the Punch and Judy show and trying to accuse people of adopting ideological positions and so on. There is no ideology on this side of the House when it comes to housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: There is a serious challenge for the Government and the Oireachtas in responding to a huge demand for social housing and providing long-term solutions for families, children and individuals who are homeless. It is an emotive topic, but we need to talk about numbers and facts, as well as the emotion. I am not saying we exclude one or the other. The State is not the only one facing this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: That is the legal advice we have received from the Attorney General.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)
Simon Coveney: We will be introducing sound, workable legislation-----