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- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: They were not living in the country because they had to emigrate.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I understand the point the Deputy is making. I know some people who would like to buy their own homes are still living at home, and I might be facing that myself, but the key issue is that 20 years ago they were not at home. They were not in the country as they had to emigrate.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: Let us talk facts and be sensible about the issue. Hard effort over a number of years involving a range of different measures has turned the tide back on scarce housing supply and unacceptable house inflation. We are now seeing greater moderation as housing supply responds to demand. The figures published today are heartening and the general view of people who make these forecasts is that...
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I know that. That makes it worse because unless the houses in Dundrum, County Tipperary have got very dear all of a sudden, a house on sale for â¬325,000 or whatever must be much more than a starter home. While I know the average prices, it is a fact that many houses in the Dublin area are still coming out at well under â¬200,000ââ
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: They are in the local authority areas around Dublin.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: They may not be in the Deputy's patch because they build very little in his local authority.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I opened a scheme in Balbriggan in October where the two-bedroom houses were â¬140,000 and the three-bedroomââ
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: ââhouses were â¬160,000.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: Affordable houses.
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: In my constituency in Finglas, we have had different schemes where houses were â¬175,000 and â¬195,000. There have been different affordable schemes under the 1999 scheme in all these areas, even in Dublin, and it is important to say that. Each year over 2,000 of these houses are being provided and they are being bought. It would be great to have more but they are being provided and they...
- Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: They build nothing out there.
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: As the Deputy is aware, the young people's facilities and services fund, YPFSF, was set up in 1998 to assist in the development of youth facilities, including sport and recreational facilities, and services in disadvantaged areas where a significant drug problem exists or has the potential to develop. The main aim of the fund is to attract "at risk" young people in disadvantaged areas into...
- Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: The Deputy will be aware that disbursements from the dormant accounts fund are for the purpose of assisting three broad categories of persons â those who are economically or socially disadvantaged; those who are educationally disadvantaged and persons with a disability. Decisions on the disbursement of funds from dormant accounts moneys are currently a matter for the Dormant Accounts Fund...
- Written Answers — Charitable Trusts: Charitable Trusts (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Question Nos. 16 and 113 together. In 2004, the Law Reform Commission agreed to assist and advise my Department on addressing issues raised in the section on Governance in my Department's consultation paper on establishing a modern statutory framework for charities, as these relate to charitable trusts. On 16 February 2005, I launched the consultation paper on charitable...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has overall responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008. The strategy contains 100 individual actions, under the four pillars of supply reduction, prevention, treatment and research, to be implemented by a range of Departments and agencies. In this regard, I am aware of the recent comments made by the...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Question Nos. 23, 25, 45 and 54 together. As the Deputies are aware, my Department has overall responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008. The strategy contains 100 individual actions to be implemented by a range of Departments and agencies. In this regard, a progress report covering the first three years of the strategy, up...
- Written Answers — Voluntary Sector Organisations: Voluntary Sector Organisations (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 27 and 37 together. I dealt comprehensively with this issue in the House already. I refer the Deputies in particular to my replies to Questions Nos. 4 and 5 of 22 February and Nos. 360 and 367 on 22 March 2005. Since the decision to discontinue funding under the national anti-poverty networks programme was communicated to the CWC on 17 December 2004, my...
- Written Answers — Voluntary Activity: Voluntary Activity (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I refer the Deputy to my response to Question No. 63 on 14 December 2004. As I indicated in that response, while the broad principles of the White Paper remain, it is appropriate that the mechanisms for addressing these be adjusted to appropriately reflect wider developments including contextual, programme and structural changes. In any event, current funding commitments to support certain...
- Written Answers — Voluntary Activity: Voluntary Activity (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 36 and 53 together. The questions raised relate to recommendations contained in the recent Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on Volunteers and Volunteering in Ireland. Deputies will be aware from my reply to Questions Nos. 305 and 308 of 8 March 2005 that I have introduced a package of measures to provide immediate support for volunteering, including measures...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (14 Apr 2005)
Noel Ahern: As I have informed the House on a number of occasions, reform of the law relating to charities will be brought forward in accordance with the commitment in An Agreed Programme for Government. Given that the charities sector has never been regulated in this country since the foundation of the State, moves towards regulation of the sector have only recently begun to be taken following the...