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Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach said the last thing he wants to do is to make this problem worse. I would argue that not addressing the underlying problems in the housing crisis is making it worse. It beggars belief how poorly the Government has dealt with the housing crisis. This week, the Children’s Rights Alliance pointed out that in January 2015, 400 families with children had to go into...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Government has been nearly five years in office but the problems have not gone away. In fact, the housing crisis has got worse. It is not all on the Taoiseach’s plate. The housing crisis is a result of decades of housing policy that followed the private, free-market version. There is nothing wrong with the private sector making money out of building houses. That is what it...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: There are 3,600 people on the social housing waiting list in County Wexford. The Government's five-year plan provides for the provision of 760 units, less than 100 of which - 20 a year - will be built by the local authorities in the next five years. That will not address the problem. Unless the Government changes its policy, we will see further boom and bust cycles and continue to have an...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: NAMA has acted ridiculously, given the prices at which stuff has been sold. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, revealed-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: In September 2013 the Minister for Finance said there was only one realistic bidder for and purchaser of Project Eagle. He was admitting that it was not a competitive process. Project Arrow, for which Cerberus has been agreed as the preferred bidder-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Will the Taoiseach consider intervening and not letting Project Arrow go ahead? Will he stall the project and see what units are suitable as social housing? Will he take these units out of the sale and sell the rest of them?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is a non-competitive process.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Cerberus-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Will the Taoiseach stall Project Arrow and examine what units could be used as social housing to address the question of homelessness and affordability in the short term?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I again ask the Taoiseach if he will reconsider-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Will the Government start building social housing again because that is the only answer to the housing crisis?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that the oversight measures of his Department for controls on the export of military and dual use items from Ireland are adequate to ensure that such items are only used in accordance with international human rights law, in particular in regions experiencing conflict; if he will provide details of any discussions...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (4 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that a person (details supplied) and several other recipients of the carer's allowance in County Wexford did not receive their weekly payment recently due to a glitch in the system; her views that it is appropriate that the choice they were given is to either wait a week for a repayment or to travel, at their own...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the unprecedented crisis in the Irish housing system, and the need for a significant shift in policy in order to deal with it; if he will consider establishing a new State body to deliver a social, affordable and rental house building and refurbishment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: We all accept that the primary objective of housing is to provide homes appropriate to need at an affordable price or rent. The policy of relying on private landlords to provide accommodation to vulnerable groups at a high cost to the Exchequer has been unwise and the Government should change direction. The Government is sourcing more than three quarters of social housing through the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is not just about supply. The suggestion that it is all about supply is a false notion. There was no shortage of supply seven or eight years ago, but there were huge affordability problems and rents were very high. The Minister of State has told us that NAMA will build 20,000 units. I remind him that they will be built on lands paid for by the taxpayer through the NAMA process. Why,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I do not disagree for one minute with the suggestion that the last Government made a hames of Part V. However, Part V was not a substitute for the construction of housing by local authorities. Under Part V fewer than 5,000 social housing units were delivered in 15 years. It was a non-entity. The Government is relying on the approved housing agencies and the rent supplement scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been delivered by the National Asset Management Agency to date, the number he expects the agency to deliver between now and the end of 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37494/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 47. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding Ireland's failure to pledge funding to the Green Climate Fund, the main multilateral funding mechanism for fostering climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37498/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 51. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for details of discussions he has had regarding rent control measures, given the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37493/15]