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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Both Senator Murnane O'Connor and I asked questions about a scheme for competitive construction finance. In response to the Senator's question the Minister may have mentioned a consultation process. Will he elaborate on that? I am disappointed to hear that there might be such a process given that this very issue has been part of the problem around construction costs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I am just going back to the three-minute questions we had earlier. Some were not answered. The Vice Chair said that we would have a slot to go back over those to ensure that they are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: We only get one set of questions then. It is a joke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Has the Government any plans to address the arbitrary rates in the cost of finance for builders and developers? This is part of the whole problem of construction costs. Is the Government doing anything other than the scheme it brought in a few years ago, whereby mezzanine funding was costing 14% and 15%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Are these measures forthcoming? They are a long time overdue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: The Government has not been able to announce anything on this for the past two years. Are we to wait another two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I have three brief questions. Deputy Ellis raised the powers of the local authorities to serve compulsory purchase orders under the compulsory purchase orders and the derelict sites Acts. The Minister has stated that funding is not an issue in addressing these problems. It most certainly is in the case of CPOs and the derelict sites legislation because the local authorities have to fund...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I never mentioned the year 2008 in that three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: The Minister should not tell me that money is no problem, when it clearly is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: I will not say that, if the Minister stops saying the other.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: They are not. They do not have the resources to fight the case. The Minister and I both know it and he should admit it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: How many derelict site orders were initiated by local authorities in the past ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: If the Minister gets the figure, and asks local authorities why they did not pursue them, they will tell him they do not have the resources to pursue them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Sorry, will the Minister tell the committee why it has not worked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why did it take seven week to tell UCD that, if the guidelines were so clear?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: The Minister just said that the guidelines are clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: It did. Why does it take seven weeks for UCD to be told that the application failed, when this was a process that was supposed to bypass an eight week process, that would happen if the application had been made to the local authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: There are other applications. The Irish Independent quotes two or three other cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why is it taking so long?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Barry Cowen: Why is it taking so long for An Bord Pleanála to tell the applicants? The Minister should know. He should ask those questions. The Minister should be able to tell us so that we could rectify it.