Results 661-680 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
John Cummins: I see and understand the viability question. Many of the reasons outlined by Mr. O'Connell a short time ago are absolutely valid. If I am a developer in Waterford and the cost of developing an apartment is €360,000 or €370,000 but my market is at €250,000, there is a viability gap. Why would I go into the ground on something to develop it? Once I go in on an apartment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
John Cummins: Yes, that was my next question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
John Cummins: We are seeing a movement in interest rates. Mr. Taaffe might comment on that in the context of the cost-rental model we are trying to roll out. I have heard some anecdotal evidence that with cost rental we can spread the cost of finance over a 40-year period but there may be a shift in interest rates. We have the cost-rental equity loan, CREL, scheme that is at a very low cost but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
John Cummins: I will finish by saying that there may be an issue with more of those complex brownfield sites. I am thinking of the north quays in Waterford, where there are significant costs with a podium and piling.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I have been thinking about what the Senator has suggested on all of the points and I keep arriving back at the same point. If I am applying for something adjacent to a site that requires substitute consent – let us say I want to build a house - why in my right mind would I attach an application for a genuine development to something so toxic that it requires substitute consent? I...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: It is not an issue.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House for the Second Stage debate on this Bill. This is one of the most exciting and reforming Bills we have had before the House in some time. It is an extensive body of work.I thank the officials who have worked extensively on the legislation. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage which, as...
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: That is a great shame because any political party that receives State funding should certainly have the general secretary-----
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: If I could continue.
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I thank the Acting Chairperson. The point I was trying to make is very important and valid. Political parties that receive State funding should certainly co-operate with an Oireachtas joint committee. It certainly was not just one party in the singular. A number of parties did not send their general secretaries to the committee for engagement on what I believe is significant legislation....
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I will not interrupt the Senator either. He need not worry.
- Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: The Senator will not be on the electoral commission, do not worry.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I welcome the announcement that Cabinet made yesterday about increasing the income disregard for students, so that they can earn additional moneys outside of term time without it affecting their student grant. This has now been increased from €4,500 to €6,552 as a result of the decision by the Cabinet. I raised this issue within our own Fine Gael Parliamentary Party several...
- Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Motion to Recommit (23 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I move: That the Bill be recommitted in respect of amendments Nos. 3, 4, 9 and 10.
- Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: This is a welcome amendment on the notice periods for tenants. There are significant increases in the notice period protections for tenants: from less than six months up to 90 days; not less than six months but less than a year up to 152 days; not less than one year but less than seven years up to 180 days; not less than seven years but less than eight years up to 196 days; and not less than...
- Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: I will not get into a big back and forth debate with Senator Warfield but I must make some important points in response to what he has outlined, particularly on banning rent increases. We all want lower rents and that is why the Government is introducing cost rental and why we have moved to a situation where we have indexed rent increases to the consumer price index, or 2%, whichever is...
- Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: Now.
- Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)
John Cummins: Now.