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Other Questions: Approved Housing Bodies (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: Could we just change the rules? It is taking nine minutes a question. If we changed the rules, we could live with it.

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the immediate measures his Department is taking to improve the enforcement of standards in the private rental sector and the standardisation of the reporting of compliance and resolutions by local authorities in response to recent reports in a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: My question is on the enforcement of standards in the private rental sector and the standardisation of the reporting of compliance and resolutions by local authorities. The National Oversight and Audit Commission's private rental sector review of 2014 showed that six local authorities reported 100% failure rates in regard to minimum standards of inspected private rental properties....

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am glad changes are coming, although I do not understand why it is being postponed until 2018. To highlight the problem, I note that in 2013, Wexford County Council inspected 1,075 private rented properties, but in 2015, it was 240 properties, and in 2016, it was 201. It just does not have the staff. There is a problem in regard to exactly who is going to inspect the properties, whether...

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: We can agree that the lack of enforcement up to now has been a big problem.

Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: Likewise, people say we do not have good regulation for building in Ireland. I keep saying we have powerful regulation for building in Ireland but we do not enforce it. The lack of enforcement is killing us and is having a big impact on the quality of the units that are delivered. The Minister referred to the different supply but I believe he is missing the point. He is talking about...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: My question was before Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's question.

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: Questions Nos. 14 and 16 were grouped. The Minister is trying to make out that RAS and the HAP are as secure as locally authority-built social housing.

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: I heard the Minister say it to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am glad the Minister is not saying it. I know the Minister is probably tired of hearing this but the dependence on the private rental sector to provide homes to people in the long term is not as good a proposition as local authority-built social housing. The truth is that more and more people will need social housing because they will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that a large proportion of the social housing solutions promised in the Rebuilding Ireland plan will come under housing support schemes, rather than consisting of new builds; if his Department has carried out any analysis on the longer term implications of this on the housing sector and on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the Rebuilding Ireland plan relies too heavily on the private sector for the delivery of social housing; his plans to empower local authorities to significantly increase their capacity for building social housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9022/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on a report (details supplied) which found that the annual rate of rental inflation, which reached 13.5% in q4 of 2016, was the highest since 2002; the measures he is taking to tackle this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9018/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (23 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department is considering different methods of gathering housing completion data in view of the concerns raised both by housing experts and in the media regarding the accuracy of using ESB connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9019/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: This is a joke.

Other Questions: State Banking Sector Regulation (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: We have sold a large slice of Ireland to vulture funds for a fraction of its value. Cerberus alone has bought par value loans of more than €25 billion for a fraction of what they are worth and it has wreaked havoc. How can the Minister claim he is not responsible for anything the National Asset Management Agency does? To whom is NAMA responsible, if not the Minister for Finance? Is...

Other Questions: State Banking Sector Regulation (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have a lot of problems with it.

Other Questions: State Banking Sector Regulation (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have had plenty to say about Cerberus outside too.

Other Questions: State Banking Sector Regulation (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: There are few people around who will stand up to it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will initiate an external review of NAMA's legal department, further to evidence given at the Committee of Public Accounts concerning non-disclosure agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10010/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if figure of €10 million for a commission of investigation into NAMA changed or altered in any way following the release of the 2017 Revised Estimates, which included estimates for a relevant commission of investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10009/17]