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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----who were elected on an anti-water charge platform. I ask the Chairman to allow me to put-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----a proposition to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Chairman has needlessly interrupted people and made the debate very difficult. It is absolutely clear that a majority of Deputies were elected on the basis of opposing water charges. Even if that were not the case, it is absolutely clear that the majority of people are not paying water charges. Tens of thousands of people were on the streets to protest on Saturday even though nothing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----famously by the Taoiseach in his response at an Irish Water briefing. It is legitimate to make the point that there is no accountability in terms of these organisations. It seems farcical and pointless that when people are brought in front of the committee we are limited in terms of what we can ask. The organisations are not accountable to the Dáil and that was the reason they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is my opinion but not his.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil has just come out and said it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----so it is the opinion of the majority in the Dáil now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I wish to raise three brief matters. I have no doubt that the Minister personally wishes to resolve the housing crisis. He has moved by bringing forward the action plan. My constant theme has been that its focus is wrong. The focus is on kickstarting the construction industry, but most of those houses will be private houses. The planning permissions the Minister is talking about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister should ask about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I will have to leave, so could I ask one more question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It relates to the figures. I tabled a parliamentary question and, of the 47,000 social houses referred to in the reply, 18,718 will be local authority new builds. That is only a little over 3,000 a year. I am rounding up the figures for the sake of speed. That is lower than the figure for 2008, before the crash. The impression is being given that there will be lots of social housing, but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a little surprising that as the Minister is travelling around the country, including a visit to Waterford last week, he has not met representatives of the key councils which are experiencing this problem. I ask him to meet the management of these councils. The councillors are powerless in the sense of bringing forward proposals. There is not a problem with CEOs acquiring houses....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: However, I pointed out that the price of private housing is being jacked up by developers, some of whom have been through NAMA and have had the largesse of the taxpayer put in front of their feet. They are also getting money from the NTMA through Activate Capital, for example, and they are shooting up the price of houses. The Minister is either powerless to do anything about it or he does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am suggesting it should not be the focal point of the Minister's plan. The focal point should be social and affordable housing
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The legislation the Minister is bringing through the Dáil does not deal with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I told the Minister it was in 2008.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They are all unaffordable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: In Dublin West, there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry but this is an important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: All of the houses being built in Castleknock are mansions for executives.