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- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister of State is welcome. I am going to bring him back to his most recent visit to this Chamber on 29 May at which time I raised an issue about apartment dwellers. During the Celtic tiger, more than 200,000 apartments were built. Of that stock, there are approximately 130,000 around our cities and towns and, of those, an estimated 90,000 were built through self-certification during...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: We have a responsibility to deal with this and to help those unfortunate people who have been stuck with these apartments. The questions they are asking are not overly onerous on the Government to fix. There has been mention of supply. The Minister of State was here in 2017 when we talked about the building regulations that permitted co-living and I was the only Senator in the Chamber who...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Forgive me, this will be very quick. I am involved in trying to progress a project comprising 40 public housing units on Fenian Street. The Department seems to be doing its best to delay the building of those 40 units by constantly asking for additional information. Those units will be public housing for people on housing lists. I fully support the project. During the summer, the...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is a pity the Minister of State's Fine Gael colleagues on the council did not see it that way.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: We can stay until 5 p.m.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Will the Chair allow a second round?
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: If the Minister of State would give way-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: -----on a point of clarification-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is within the Standing Orders-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is very important, if the Minister of State will yield through Standing Orders, to point out that rent assistance-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I very clearly remember that HAP came in because in the 2000s the rent assistance, which was originally an emergency payment, unfortunately became the norm as a housing policy. It was a huge mistake by that Government. Essentially it was the privatisation of housing. HAP was intended to allow people to go back to work while they were on a rental allowance. Rent allowance should never have...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I was not criticising the Minister of State-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It affects the whole of the centre of Dublin.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: No, it is not all of Dublin.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: There is no debate, only facts.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I am discussing the facts with regard to supply in the market.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: We should deal in facts, not perceptions.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: No, it is not my perception.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: In the Dublin area, the only new builds are build-to-rent and co-living units. Those are the facts. There are two apartment blocks for sale and they may never come up for sale because an institutional investment may buy them.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister of State should check who purchased all the apartments that were for sale, for example, in Mount Argus. I can list others.