Results 341-360 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I fully understand. It is a sensitive issue but an important one if we want to keep maintain throughput in the AHB sector. I have come across some issues with the affordable purchase scheme. The scheme has been very successful in Waterford. On the interaction with the banks and mortgage providers and the issue of standardisation of documentation, what comes first? Is it the legal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I thank the Chair for the promotion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I said thanks for the promotion. I was called "Deputy" rather than "Senator" but I will take it, thanks very much. In relation to the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme, has the Minister come across any issues with regards to slowness in terms of processing structural reports? I understand it takes time to conclude a sale but where timelines are tight and you have a tenant's landlord who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I do not doubt that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I have sent it into the Housing Agency and we are trying to follow up on it. It is a particular case and if the landlord knew what the ballpark parameters of an offer was, the tenant would remain in the property subject to a negotiation either concluding or not as the case may be. At the moment, the landlord does not know whether he is coming or going in terms of an offer. He does not know...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: We have the planning Bill coming in to the Seanad in a couple of weeks. In the context of log cabins or pods, there seems to be huge discrepancies across the country as to how local authorities view those. Some are favourably disposed, some are site-dependent and some are outright opposed entirely. What is our view and how can we ensure uniformity here? Obviously, modern methods are a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Finally Minister, Deputy O'Brien, on the Croí Cónaithe cities fund mentioned in his opening statement and the 582 units in the context of that scheme, it is lower than what we would have hoped for in terms of the uptake of that scheme. I have two questions. Is there feedback from the sector as to why there is not more of an uptake? Is there capacity to interchange the Croí...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: For sure. I am thinking forward to the North Quays-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: -----which the Minister has visited. That is in for planning now with Harcourt Developments. There will be 350 apartments right on the river front.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: The developer is open to doing them for purchase, but obviously funding is the key piece there, so that backstop is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: How long will that call be open?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Could we keep it open? I am just conscious that we are probably eight weeks away from Harcourt getting planning permission-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I am just mentioning the development partner that is in for planning permission in the case of the North Quays project. We do not want a situation where it, or its equivalent in another location, misses three months just because we do not have it open at a particular point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: The question then is whether someone will be able to put forward a proposal that is in the planning system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: The North Quays is an SDZ, as the Minister knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I thank the Cathaoirleach.