Results 6,301-6,320 of 20,884 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy is well aware. Limerick City and County Council has just under €60 million to spend. By the way, it should decide the projects. I agree with Deputy Wallace; the more smaller projects are put forward, the better. I will come back to that. It is obvious that there is an information gap out there. If those 11 units are gone, and there may be other cases across the country...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: -----they can be replaced. Local authorities put forward the projects. The Department does not put them forward. That is the way it has to be.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Of course. Local authorities make the decisions. We administer the approval process.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: No, the local authorities always put forward the projects. They have their funding, which I have outlined, for 2017. In the context of the issues for those on housing lists, the choice-based letting that happened in Cork is a good example. Choice-based letting should be rolled out across the country. Let me just say that out straight. It may need to be tweaked a little or whatever - I...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: That also goes for a few other people in the room. I find myself in agreement with a number of the Deputy's points, but not others. I agree with the Central Bank rules. They may need to be tweaked and definitely needed to be monitored but, in general, they are correct because the price of houses cannot rise to €500,000 and we cannot have people worrying about how they will pay for...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: That would give us a fuller picture. There may also be others who need to come in. I will respond to the other issues that were raised by Deputy Daly. I disagree with the Deputy on Beaumont. Human beings can object and that is their right and it is fine, but at times I find it absolutely incredible that public representatives of all hue and cry can, for political reasons, shout out...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Within that area, the acquirement of those houses meets both the intensity that is professed and good practice. One cannot, on the one hand, say that we need more social housing and that we need to get as much as possible for people who obviously need it, many of whom are in difficult situations, and on the other hand say "not in my back yard" or that it does not meet a particular requirement
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not talking about that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not talking about Deputy Daly now.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I did not misunderstand.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not scapegoating anyone. By the way-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not caricaturing it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy did not let me finish.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am finishing on Deputy Daly's points. One has to remember that from the Department's point of view, it is the local authority that comes forward and actually decides. It is the local authority that feels it is appropriate and the right thing to do. From that point of view, we have to work with the local authorities to ensure that this happens. On the recommendations, we need to decide...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Where is the Deputy getting the figures from? The point is that obviously there is a tendering process involved in this and that will all come through, but I am very happy with the rapid build houses. I wanted houses that lasted longer than 30 years, perhaps for 60 or 70 years. I wanted an AA rating and I also wanted to ensure they were built as quickly as possible. They are the fastest...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: No problem. Perhaps the Chairman wants to take another round.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I missed the Deputy's final remark. To what entity did she refer?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: He is probably Senator Coffey by now.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Yes.