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- 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)
Barry Cowen: I have a responsibility to tell members of the public how successful the scheme has been.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I am speaking about a change in the methodology being used by local authorities. The current regulations mean properties cannot be fast-tracked.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: We are sick of-----
- 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)
Barry Cowen: According to the census, there are 260,000 vacant properties.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: We all know the position in our local towns and villages.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: There are 18 vacant properties in my village.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I know of another 18 vacant units.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I do not need a website to tell me the number.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: It is frustrating.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: Most of that money was not-----
- 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)
Barry Cowen: So the Minister is saying that it is not a problem. He becomes very touchy when we talk about-----
- 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)
Barry Cowen: Both Senator Murnane O'Connor and I asked questions about a scheme for competitive construction finance. In response to the Senator's question the Minister may have mentioned a consultation process. Will he elaborate on that? I am disappointed to hear that there might be such a process given that this very issue has been part of the problem around construction costs.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I am just going back to the three-minute questions we had earlier. Some were not answered. The Vice Chair said that we would have a slot to go back over those to ensure that they are.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: We only get one set of questions then. It is a joke.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: Has the Government any plans to address the arbitrary rates in the cost of finance for builders and developers? This is part of the whole problem of construction costs. Is the Government doing anything other than the scheme it brought in a few years ago, whereby mezzanine funding was costing 14% and 15%?
- 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)
Barry Cowen: Are these measures forthcoming? They are a long time overdue.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: The Government has not been able to announce anything on this for the past two years. Are we to wait another two years?
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I have three brief questions. Deputy Ellis raised the powers of the local authorities to serve compulsory purchase orders under the compulsory purchase orders and the derelict sites Acts. The Minister has stated that funding is not an issue in addressing these problems. It most certainly is in the case of CPOs and the derelict sites legislation because the local authorities have to fund...
- 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)
Barry Cowen: I never mentioned the year 2008 in that three minutes.
- 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)
Barry Cowen: The Minister should not tell me that money is no problem, when it clearly is.