Results 1,301-1,320 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Returning to the local authority affordable purchase scheme, it is all first-hand feedback. I identified this issue prior to the budget in September. The officials must correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think there was any sort of robust discussion between the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Finance on the difficulties that were going to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: My suggestion in this space is a simple amendment that the loan-to-value ratio remains at 70% but it is based on the affordable purchase price rather than the market price of the unit. What that will do is bring a whole additional cohort of people into the net for affordable purchase properties. In fact, it will probably nearly dip into the social housing bit and it will certainly close the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: It would be remiss of me not to mention a point that I raised in the Seanad. I note the response that came back and I know the Chair has just corrected me to say I should not have mentioned repair and lease again, but I am going to. I put in a proposal to the Department to have a cost rental version of the repair and lease scheme. There is a 20% discount on market rent inbuilt into the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Perfect. I take it that Mr. Ó Coigligh will mediate in the middle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: They were not direct-build days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: They were still contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Always.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: It never happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: By a contractor.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Grant Payments (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for taking my Commencement matter, which is on a topic of utmost importance. Community groups across the length and breadth of this country have worked collaboratively with An Garda Síochána to establish community text alert schemes, which I know he is very supportive of. Data published last week indicate that there has been a 45% reduction in...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Grant Payments (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but unfortunately, the issue with the rebate scheme, as I see it, is that it operates the following year. There is no baseline support in place for these community text alert groups that provide an invaluable service for their communities. It is April and there has been no rebate scheme for 2022. If we take 2023, for example, texts have been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: The Minister said it was demand-led. With all due respect, Deputy Ó Broin is not listening to the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: It is demand-led.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister and Ministers of State for their attendance. This meeting gives us a good opportunity to discuss some of the items that have been announced today and some of the other items that have been worked through over the past couple of years. I will begin by discussing the changes announced today in the grant for vacant and derelict properties. It is positive news that a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials for taking that retrospective piece on board. I raised the issue at our meetings of this committee because it is important that the system is not clogged up with people who have already been approved for a grant trying to reapply for a higher grant. I welcome the clarification. On cost rentals, for some time I have told...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: On the repair and lease scheme, I am a strong advocate for changing the dial in terms of the delivery of units in my own county of Waterford. On 14 April, the new Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, and, earlier, the Minister visited the old nursing home at St. Joseph's House, Manor Hill, Waterford city. The building belonged to the Little Sisters of the Poor but it is now being converted...