Results 3,561-3,580 of 4,700 for speaker:Noel Ahern
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: Deputy Gilmore's question is about affordable units but the total dividend from Part V would include social as well as affordable units. The figure of 508 units relates to affordable housing. However, the total dividend from Part V is about 800 units.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: It is approximately 850. Where I referred to 1,200 affordable units today, that would amount to 1,900 Part V units in total.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: It is small, it is only about 30 units.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: This is where Deputy Gilmore deliberately tries to blackguard and act the fool. He is the only person he is codding.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: No, I am not. It takes time.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: The public is more sensible. People realise that it takes time to build houses. One cannot just produce houses overnight. The affordable housing initiative was first mentioned two years ago. Some 350 units will be produced this year under Sustaining Progress that are not related to Part V. That will increase substantially. Any developer would say the same thing.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: I am sorry if I sound boring repeating myself but it takes a minimum of three or four years from the time one gets a site to the time houses are provided. Next year will see a higher output of housing units. By the end of the year we expect to be on 13 sites.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
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- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: The local authority in Finglas has been active in this area, mainly under the 1999 scheme, and there is some affordable housing initiative. The valuation of the Harcourt Terrace site is â¬39 million.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: We are receiving a net consideration for this site of â¬15.6 million, which is â¬2.6 million more than its pre-sale valuation of â¬13 million. This equates with â¬39 million per acre and is at the top of the range of sale prices achieved in city centre locations. It is a very good deal. We could have provided approximately 30 apartments on the site and some commercial units but instead...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: ââand much quicker. That is the real beauty of it. We could have got 30 apartments but it might have taken another three or four years. We are to have 140 of the 193 units this year. It is not just a case of getting more but of getting them much quicker. This is a really good deal.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: No, it is not 30 out of 10,000.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: The social partners know the deal into which they entered. Deputy Gilmore keeps getting mixed up deliberately.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: The deal includes 10,000 affordable houses, including Part V.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: The social partners know this.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: It most definitely did not. I am sorry the Deputy keeps confusing himself.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: It did not.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: It did not.
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (23 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 252 and 253 together. Numbers of actual housing starts by the three local authorities in County Kildare under their construction-acquisition programmes for the years 2000-04 are set out in the following table. Local Authority 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Kildare County Council 177 204 7 86 232 Athy Town Council 2 0 7 9 10 Naas Town Council...
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Jun 2005)
Noel Ahern: No application for funding under the voluntary housing capital funding schemes in respect of a proposed housing project has been received from Dublin City Council, which is responsible for the detailed administration of these schemes in its area.