Results 3,221-3,240 of 4,773 for speaker:Paudie Coffey
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Is it not correct?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy knows it is correct.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I do not propose to accept amendment No. 23. We cannot meet the housing demand by direct build only, as put forward by Deputy Boyd Barrett. I can guarantee that should he be appointed Minister in the morning, and with the best of intentions which I know he has, he would not deliver the number of houses we need to meet the current demand with direct build on local authority lands. We are...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: How would it be possible to get out of the obligation to provide 10% public housing?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: If Deputy Wallace has concerns around the provisions on the 10% and if he is telling me there are ways out of providing it, let us hear it rather than just saying it without coming up with a substantial argument behind it.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: He would have the money.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: He would be going back to building ghettos, which Deputy Wallace would oppose. One has to get the balance right.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the debate as it is important to debate this critical issue. Let me assure Deputies that we share their ambition to deliver as many houses as possible to address the housing need. We might not agree on how we will do it but the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly and I are adamant that we focus our attention on trying to find ways to leverage...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I accept the grouping of amendments covers a range of areas. I will try to address some of the issues raised. Deputy Catherine Murphy inquired about how the European Investment Bank could assist and fund social housing. Some approved housing bodies already have the structures and capacity in place. They have proven they can raise funds via...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I thank Deputies Murphy, Boyd Barrett, Stanley and Coonan for their engagement on this amendment. I acknowledge that, in the past, there were very difficult negotiations and complex court cases. I agree with Deputy Murphy that, to be fair, local authorities have been denuded of many experienced staff in recent years. In terms of addressing that, where local authorities are making proposals...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It was addressed.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I will not be accepting the proposal to delete section 36. Section 36 provides that the exemption from the Part V provisions shall henceforth apply only to developments of nine units or fewer. Previously, the exemption from the provisions of Part V applied only to developments of four or fewer. This ensures, for example, that one social housing unit in a development of ten units - 10% of...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 32:In page 22, after line 38, to insert the following: “PART 6AMENDMENT OF HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2009 Amendment of section 31 of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 37. Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 is amended by substituting the following for subsection (1): "(1) This section applies to a...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I can understand where the Deputies are coming from, but I will not be accepting the amendment and I will try to explain why. I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett that we cannot fail this time and we need to learn from the mistakes of the past. That is why we need to refocus our resources and our attention on urban regeneration, where the need is and where services are available. We are...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 38:In page 5, line 9, after "Act 2000" to insert ", to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009".
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Deputy Dooley's Government, which he supported, left them in some mess. He has some neck.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: How are the negotiations going?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Ideology will not solve it.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The economy was growing while it was in government.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: He was found out.