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Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Robert Dowds: ...of that party's greatest electoral support. There are some good suggestions among the recommendations of the Mahon report. However, overall they are far too legalistic and not broad enough. The Kenny report has been adverted to. One of the key measures of that report which would help to prevent corruption is if the price of building land were regulated. The proposal in the report was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (26 May 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank everyone who has come in. I first want to respond to some comments that were made suggesting that land value sharing is a modern form of the Kenny report. I have a very different view on that. Land value sharing, as it has been explained, is about collecting some of the uplift in land values and then using it for infrastructure. That is very different from the Kenny report, whose...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Tommy Broughan: ...that. He has mentioned the word "emergency" in various speeches and interviews but he has not declared an emergency and said "let's go for it". Yesterday, the Labour Party produced a Bill based on the Kenny report, which should have been implemented. I commend Deputy Jan O'Sullivan on bringing forward the Bill. The Labour Party had five years to bring it forward and do something...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... In fact, doing something about deterring developers from sitting on sites with permission would do far more. I intend to bring in legislation next week to address this in the context of the Kenny report and by bringing forward the vacant sites levy. That is for another day, but the fact that there are so many existing planning permissions is enough to suggest that the problem does not...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2009)

Trevor Sargent: ...things I would like to see. I have spoken to farmers who regard allotments as a pension plan and there is potential in that area for food production. We need to train people in food skills. The Kenny report will be implemented when local authorities begin to take initiatives on how their communities are to be planned, rather than waiting for developers to do it. Likewise, credit unions...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Jan O'Sullivan: ...not believe it is necessary to declare an emergency in the way FEMPI legislation was introduced in order to address this issue. This time last year, we published a Bill seeking to implement the Kenny report as recommended by the all-party committee on the Constitution in its ninth progress report on private property. The report concluded that the Oireachtas has the power to restrict...

Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...to meet, they undoubtedly relate to concerns which, in a free and democratic society, should be regarded as pressing and substantial’; notes in particular the Committee's conclusion that the recommendations of the Kenny Report on the Price of Building Land would survive constitutional scrutiny; believes, therefore, that the Constitution of Ireland can no longer be used as a...

Seanad: Rent Supplements: Motion (4 Jul 2012)

Paul Bradford: ...rent supplement towards a real housing solution and policy. We have not had a substantive debate on housing in a political generation. Former colleagues of ours published, debated and ignored the Kenny report and since then there has been no real housing policy apart from building and speculating. A housing estate was not a place where people and families lived; it was a profit vehicle...

Seanad: Action Plan for Housing: Statements (20 Jul 2016)

Denis Landy: ...take on board a number of issues my party sought to address in a Bill on social and affordable housing that we published this week. The first of these is the recommendations from the long-discussed Kenny report. In the Minister's action plan, he said that lands are currently zoned to satisfy a population of 6 million but there is no breakdown of these lands. The Minister knows - given...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...the Constitution, robust legislation on tenants' rights, rents and standards of accommodation, a ban on evictions of citizens, families and children into homelessness and a land management policy based on the Kenny report and necessary compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. These demands are echoed by the Campaign for Public Housing which I also support. As part of this programme, will the...

Social Partnership. (3 Jul 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ..., who has pointed out that many factors leading to inflation are well within the control of Government? On house price inflation, for example, Mr. O'Connor pointed out that four decades after the Kenny report no Government has ever confronted the need to deal effectively with the price of building land or invest sufficiently in the provision of social and affordable housing to maintain...

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

Michael McCarthy: ...'s intentions regarding the report. We have a duty to our fellow citizens to ensure that the report, which addresses these issues in an appropriate manner, should be implemented in full. The Kenny report published a number of years ago made some similar sweeping recommendations. It is important these reports should not gather dust on a shelf but are read and implemented and have a meaning...

Moriarty Report: Statements (14 Feb 2007)

Trevor Sargent: ...is ironic in this country but also in the rest of the western world. Essentially, we have a dysfunctional property market which is at the root of much of that corruption. The long-standing Justice Kenny report on property and building land of 1973 has been studiously ignored by successive Governments. All the talk about implementing its recommendations has been followed by zilch action....

Afforestation Programme. (17 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: ...be useful to know if the Minister of State is thinking of introducing such an increase. As she said, land prices are increasing and many issues need to be dealt with separately in that context, the Kenny report being only one of them. Does the Minister of State intend to increase premiums in light of those other increases in costs, which make it difficult for many farmers to engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick: The Kenny report was published in 1973, some 50 years ago. At that time, there was no stamp duty, no capital gains tax, no Part V and no development levies. The environment today is totally different from where we were in 1973, and it is somewhat out of date to keep referring to a report that is now 50 years old. I might give one or two examples of adequate land...

Seanad: Code of Conduct for Civil Servants: Motion (12 May 2010)

Niall Ó Brolcháin: ...options that will stamp out corruption in our public service and in our society. It is an endless fight and there are many different ideas. Perhaps Senator Twomey and Fine Gael might support the Kenny report in future. It was produced a number of years ago. My grandfather was a civil servant in the Department of Finance. He always said his greatest regret was that when the State was...

House Prices. (22 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...housing, but many builders pay money instead of delivering housing units. The Building Industry Bulletin of 2002 found that the profit on building land in Ireland was 300% above average profits. The Kenny report recommended a ceiling on the price of land of the existing value of agricultural land plus 25%. Again, however, no action was taken by the Government. Many young people in Ireland...

Property Services (Land Price Register) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 May 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...country and is hampering our decision-making. I welcome the land value sharing tax that the Government is bringing in. It is a positive measure but it does not address the core issue raised in the Kenny report from almost 50 years ago. It provides a mechanism for helping the State to recoup some of the uplift in land values which, as the Minister correctly said, can then be put into...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the motion, which we support. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for indicating that Sinn Féin will accept our amendment, which seeks to implement the recommendations of the Kenny report that were designed to stop land hoarding. There is evidence that people are sitting on land to make a greater profit. This would be a long-term way of ensuring affordable land is available for...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Bradford: ...of State, along with his Government colleagues to ensure that we have a very holistic debate about housing in this country. There has not been such a debate since the 1970s when we had the famous Kenny report. Government after Government has used housing, the price of houses, the income generated from VAT and other taxes, as an economic driver. The housing industry, rather than being an...