Results 5,541-5,560 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: There were discrepancies in a response that the Minister gave to a parliamentary question last week.
- Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: Not true.
- Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: The Government was fumbling and fooling for 12 months.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of raising rent supplement spending by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2701/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 158. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of the implementation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has provided to local authorities to assist in the routine turnaround of vacant social housing properties when they are being transferred between tenancies, by local authority, in each of the years 2013 to 2015, inclusive; and the average length of time it takes for a local authority to turnaround a social...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of capital funding social housing units built by local authorities in 2015 and the number of current funded social housing units in 2015; the number of current funded units that were leased through National Asset Residential Property Services, the National Asset Management Agency social housing vehicle, in...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 social housing units provided in 2015 that the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Paudie Coffey, alluded to on a current affairs programme (details supplied) by local authority and by programme, that is, housing assistance programme,...
- Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: No problem. Give us 20 seats and we will work with the Government.
- Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: I thank all contributors to the debate on the motion before the House. I acknowledge much of the content contained in many of the deliberations. I am particularly conscious of the fact many members of Fine Gael and the Labour Party have acknowledged the housing crisis to be an emergency. Deputy Nolan acknowledged there was no shame in admitting this is a crisis and admitting the failure of...
- Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: There was no mention of acts of treason by any Member of the previous Government, as was alleged by Deputy Gilmore to the catcalls of his colleagues. There was no mention of documents being shredded in the Taoiseach's office, now occupied by Deputy Enda Kenny, considering the fact he stated he sought to find them and despite the fact they had been in the hands of the Department of Finance....
- Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: Then he said that NAMA owned the loans, not the land. For God's sake, the land is the security that determines the value of the loan. The return on the investment in the land will repay the State. The Fine Gael attitude is that we get as much as we can and we throw it into the public finances to show the improvements we have made in those finances and to hell with those within the State...
- Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: There is still a time, believe it or not, when parties and political organisations want to satisfy and help all of society across this Republic, especially in the year that is in it and the commemoration it signifies.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case, including when the person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore, County Offaly. [3416/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case, including when the person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive therapy through Health Service Executive in the midlands. [3417/16]
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: The Labour Party extended it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: The carbon tax went up.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: That is an understatement.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: I think the councils were doing that.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2016)
Barry Cowen: 344. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide for educational impact assessments as per the programme for Government; and the progress in implementing this proposal. [3729/16]