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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The number was 2,000 around the country.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It suits the Deputy to keep invoking those numbers.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: No, it is a factual statement.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, NAMA spent very little on doing up properties for social housing in proportion to its budget. I will get the figures for the Minister if he so wishes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What was its overall budget?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Not out of €36 billion. I will look up the figures.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I clarify something? We have the managers from the local authorities next. Will there be another presentation by the Department?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are being taken together. Is that correct?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On a point of procedure, Mr. Cummins appeared before the committee previously but I think people would like to hear what each local authority's plans are.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I just thought they might be able to tell us.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I think it is 1 million.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a question about that?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very disheartening to hear local authority managers arguing against social housing on the scale that is needed. That is how it can be interpreted. I know some of the witnesses personally and have had dealings with them. I do not believe that is their belief, but it is as if they have absorbed this philosophy that is coming. Some 390,000 local authority houses were built in the last...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I raise another matter on which Mr. Brady may wish to comment. I live in a mixed-tenure estate. I do not know if other people do. There were 200 private, 400 affordable mortgage and 100 for local authority tenants. It works very well. I favour affordable mortgages because people have an issue with wanting to buy their houses. I think Mr. Brady or whoever is in Fingal now would back me...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What does Mr. Cummins mean by "worked in the past"?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is Mr. Cummins saying that the private sector not being involved is the problem, rather than the local authorities not being involved?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am just trying to clarify what Mr. Cummins is saying.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have never liked the fact that in the Dáil, the Government frequently blames local authorities for the lack of house building or the housing crisis. Ministers say that they have given local authorities the money and that the Taoiseach has told them to go and work away with that. However, I must say that I am very disappointed by what I have heard today. Basically, local authority...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Could Mr. Brady end the self accommodation thing, which is torture for people, if he had more staff? It is really difficult for people to source their own accommodation like that.