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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister considering shifting this balance? Surely the balance should be the other way around. Even if we accept the Minister's argument that the housing assistance payment is a temporary measure, Rebuilding Ireland does not propose it as a temporary measure. It proposes it as two thirds of the housing plan out to 2020. It is all money out the door with nothing returned in the long...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean the State building houses, which are then State assets and which generate rental revenue for the State, as against relying on private landlords and money going out the door every year that never comes back to us. It is just money out the door.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a financial matter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Everything is a financial matter-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: A big one.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On LIHAF, in Cherrywood, the Minister gave a figure of, I think, 23,000 houses for €226 million.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how the Minister can give us accurate figures when, in Cherrywood, we do not know how much we are going to get for LIHAF funding. The council tells us that. Alarmingly, it could be as low as 75 units or, if it is spread across, it could be a €75,000 discount on average prices which are about €450,000. That is not affordable and it is no use. It is not a serious...
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The councils should be doing it. Will the Minister do anything about the thresholds for eligibility for social housing? They must be increased. The current situation is not fair because people who are marginally over the eligibility criteria are being thrown off the list. On the rental situation and the loopholes that are being exploited for the purpose of evictions, how soon will we...
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two instances at present whereby vulture funds are trying to evict people using these loopholes. Will the Minister issue instructions to the RTB not to allow those evictions to go ahead?
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister to push-----
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not high enough.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not enough.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, after voting down our proposals in July for the whole project to be social.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What was not realistic about building council property on council land? Tell me what was unrealistic about it, Minister.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. That is absolute rubbish
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The numbers. It will wash its own face over the long term, as the Minister well knows, just as all council housing does. This is just playing politics while we have a disastrous situation in Dún Laoghaire.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Playing politics. That is what this is. This is too serious for games.
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should abandon PPPs on public property. It is obvious that this approach takes longer because, rather than a council doing it itself or getting a contractor in to do it, public private partnership involves having to go through a tendering process, etc. That is why we are getting delays. We should stop. Another reason we get messes is because developers want to make money from PPPs....
- 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)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that, by the way. I will say that.
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was never off it.