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- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: From a policy perspective, we would prefer not to rely so much on housing assistance payment. However, previous Governments outsourced responsibility for social housing building to the private sector almost exclusively, when that sector collapsed with the financial crisis there was no one there to build houses so we had to get back into the business of building social housing. Under...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. The Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, released its report for the first quarter of 2018 on rent measures and the rent index and it included some very interesting results. There was a national increase in rents of 0.4%. That is the smallest increase we have seen in 12 months. In Dublin rents increased by only 1% and it was 1.1% in the previous quarter,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. This issue was recently brought to my attention by the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran. We are looking at it currently. Obviously where an estate is being taken in charge it is very important that all the different service providers are linked up to make sure the resources and the facilities can be put in place, provided or continue to be...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I will admit I am not great swimmer. When it comes to things like triathlons it is not my strongest suit. I am better at running and at cycling. Let us stick to the facts. The Deputy says that there is no social house building programme. Some 50,000 new homes will come into the stock of social housing under Rebuilding Ireland. We will build double what was built last year this year,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: If the Deputy want to talk about rents, nationally they are down 0.4%. For two quarters in a row we have seen a dramatic slowdown in rent increases.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: In some counties rents are falling.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: No one is saying that we do not have more work to do.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Rent increases have slowed to 0.4% nationally, okay.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Let us talk to the facts.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Let us talk to the facts.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: Maybe the Deputy should busy herself printing more posters, renting out vehicles and standing in front of them while doing meaningless media events that do not solve anything.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I recognise-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We in government chose to be in government. We did not run away from the choice of government like the Deputy's party did two years ago.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: We stood up and we said that we wanted to go into government and to have the responsibility of government.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I recognise-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for his question. Work is being done in respect of the reform of the electoral register currently. There will be public consultation in the autumn to hear the views of the public regarding how we can improve the service and perhaps move it away from being administered by each local authority to being administered at national level. The Deputy can input his views during...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann notes" and substitute the following:"— the very significant impact that the economic downturn had on housing supply and the construction industry, with housing construction falling by over 90 per cent between the peak in 2006 and the trough in 2013; — that with the economy returning to significant and...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: I am taking notes on what the Deputy is saying.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy was not speaking ten minutes ago.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (14 Jun 2018)
Eoghan Murphy: As part of the development of Ireland’s 2nd cycle River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) 2018-2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) undertook an extensive catchment characterisation process to understand the pressures impacting upon water quality. The RBMP is available on my Department’s website at:. This catchment characterisation process involved the EPA assessing the...