Results 361-380 of 4,700 for speaker:Noel Ahern
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Good progress is being made. Deputy Broughan is aware that it is not the case that everybody who is in emergency accommodation is ready for independent living.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Some of them are. If people are housed in transitional accommodation for a few months, the service providers can ascertain who is ready for independent living and who needs a level of sheltered accommodation. The service providers recognise that substantial progress has been made.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: If we can maintain the current level of funding for another couple of years, we will get there.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I ask the Deputies to be reasonable and to recognise the progress that has been made.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: We are spending â¬51 million this year compared to â¬12.5 million five years ago. An enormous amount of money has been allocated. A total of â¬190 million has been provided for homeless people in the past five years.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The Government is delivering on housing.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: It has responded to the numerous and diverse challenges with a credible and wide-ranging set of measures. It has provided unparalleled levels of funding and its continued vigilance is paying off.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I am not there yet.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The overall focus of the Sustaining Progress commitment to provide social and affordable accommodationââ
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: ââis to review the effectiveness of programmes designed to assist low income groups. We are making substantial progress. This year's budget is â¬1.88 billion.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The needs of the 13,000 persons on the housing waiting list will be met. We hope to achieve the overall house production level of 68,000 homes and to maintain the production rate of 17 units per 1,000 people. If we can sustain this level of supply for a couple of years, we will have broken the back of the demand that exists.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Some logical points were made earlier. The pressure on housing supplies is one of the negative side-effects of seven or eight years of economic boom.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: There has been pressure, but we are getting there. The Government's policy is based on increasing supply. If we can maintain the current level of supply, the pressure on the market will ease.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Thank God.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: At least young people are in this country.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: If the Deputy's party was in government, they would be abroad.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: They would be on the boat.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Deputy Durkan should not be talking nonsense.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: We are lucky.
- Written Answers — Departmental Reviews: Departmental Reviews (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The review of the operation of the disabled persons grant schemes will be finalised shortly and I will then be in a position to consider the changes which may be required to ensure that the scheme continues to assist those persons in greatest need of such grant assistance.