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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: There are a few things that could be ruled out.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am prepared to build them.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister saying there is no issue regarding money and that it is available to local authorities to allow them to build anything they want?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: They tell me they are waiting on money.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am only telling the Minister what they are telling me.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: The witness would be disappointed if I did not ask him something. What does Mr. Skehan think should be done to address the fact that private housing is too expensive in Ireland?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the issue of scale, I realise it costs a great deal more to build ten houses per unit than to build 100, but we must also take on board the fact that the guy who builds 100 wants a higher profit per unit than the guy who is building ten. Does Mr. Skehan agree?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Skehan is comparing it to other businesses such as Marks & Spencer and how that whole industry which it is involved in works. However, my experience has been that we have a particular problem in Ireland with the profit margin sought by the larger developer. We obviously have a particular problem with the profit sought by the land banker. Mr. Skehan may have heard me say this...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I would argue that most of the land bank and land - I would say over 90% of it - was purchased many years before that and the sites being bought in 2003 and 2004 were actually being turned over. They were not being bought to be banked at that time. They were being bought to be developed. I still think the land banking area is a huge potential for the State to move in on, but we need the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Most of my questions have been asked by others but I want to follow up on one point. Would I be right in saying that there has been a proliferation of approved housing bodies since the crash in 2008? It might be sad for the witnesses that this proliferation has coincided with what is probably the worst handling of housing supply in the history of the State. Listening to the witnesses'...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am only asking.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Home Repossession Rate (4 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant family homes which were repossessed in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Home Repossession Rate (4 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-vacant family homes which were repossessed following evictions in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8944/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the planned phasing out of regulation 3, which gives full recognition to Montessori teachers trained by the Association Montessori Internationale, by the St. Nicholas Montessori Society of Ireland and those trained outside the Republic of Ireland, to teach in special schools, special classes, and resource classes; if she has...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Most people would agree that all is not well in how we go about supplying housing in Ireland. It did not start with the current Government because it has been like this for a long time. I am very much aware that much of this does not actually come under the remit of the current Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. I do not know whether there is any merit in having a separate...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister was talking about void houses. Again, that is very much a matter for the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The Minister said it takes the private sector four to six weeks to turn around a void house, which is correct, and that the local authorities take two years to do it. I accept that the Minister has responsibility for finance and not local...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister can tell us about how wonderfully the economy has grown, but during the election campaign I knocked on 20,000 doors in Wexford and saw a level of deprivation that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. Sadly, the figures mentioned for the economy do not necessarily translate into a decent standard of living for many. The fiscal rules to which the Minister has referred can...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I will be brief. Mr. Brett spoke about the level of engagement by the banks with people. I am sure that like me other Deputies have been hearing from people from every county in Ireland that the banks are very difficult to work it and that they are inflexible and lacking in understanding and compassion. That the Irish banks would be ten thousand leagues under the sea but for the fact the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On that issue, has the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland had discussions with representatives of the State on working with it to secure some form of guarantee that would allow banks to provide loans to builders who are prepared to build houses on sites to which they have access? Has there been engagement with the State on this issue?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: It should be pointed out that not only did the builders become developers and, for want of a better word, "fuck up", so did the banks. The banks have been forgiven and allowed to move on.