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- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I could go on through the list. I want to ask one simple question.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the Minister of State's figures, €30 million equates to 500 houses new houses.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just one second-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can we not multiply that-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- put €2 billion or €3 billion into building new social housing, save ourselves the rent allowance, house people on the housing list-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and put some building workers back to work?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation is getting worse. I put a simple question to the Minister of State. According to her figures for the cost of building a new house - we were building 90,000 houses a year during the boom so she cannot say we cannot do it in a short time-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To build 100,000 council houses according-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To build 100,000 council houses would cost €6 billion. We would save €1 billion a year, according to the Minister of State's figures.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She said €30 million for 500 houses.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So 100,000 houses would cost €6 billion and we would save approximately €1 billion a year in rent allowance payments and in the extra rental revenue that would come back to the State. On that basis we could even get the money from the European Investment Bank because we would pay for those houses-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- over a minimum of a ten-year period and then we would be into surplus as well as solving the housing crisis and we would put building workers back to work. Why can she not do that?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am using the Minister of State's figures.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State said 500 houses for €30 million.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine. Then maybe it will go to 100,000.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A 12-year housing list.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be happy when I do not have people crying in my clinic over this.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has no interest in a debate on housing.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It borders on the preposterous to be debating local government reform against a background whereby 25% of local authority workers have been axed, a total of 9,000 jobs, and massive cuts have been inflicted on the central fund for local government. Local authorities need resources and front-line staff to provide the services required from them. Everything else is shifting the deck chairs on...
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy will have his chance. There is nothing in the Bill concerning managers' large salaries. Dublin County Council's manager, its new CEO, gets €190,000 per year. What will we do about the junket culture in which people get thousands of euro every year to attend conferences, most of which provide no benefit to local authorities or communities? If the Bill is to be in any way...