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- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: ââof these were met last year. The budget, Exchequer and non-Exchequer, for social and affordable housing in 2004 is â¬1.884 billion, which represents an increase of 5.4% on the previous year. Inflation is running at just 1.7%. This additional funding will allow us to consolidate the very significant progress made in recent years and to maintain a very high level of commitment to social...
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Any builder in the midlands, or wherever the Senator comes from, will tell him these cannot be built overnight.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: It takes a while for a developer to complete building on a site. It is not true to say no sod has been turned. The Taoiseach was in Finglas a month or six weeks ago to turn the sod on a site that will contain 166 affordable units, based on the terms of Sustaining Progress.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I was down in the Senator's county a while ago.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Does the Senator not remember me? He was very nice to me the day he brought me down.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Work on the site in Finglas with the 166 affordable units, based on the terms of Sustaining Progress, has started and I look forward to seeing that progress. Shortly we will seek expressions of interest for the development of the sites at the Jamestown and Infirmary Roads in Dublin. It takes time to plan and deliver housing. I assure the House that we are fully committed to delivering on the...
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The problem is worse in Dublin. Some 1,000 additional emergency beds have been provided in recent years. The problem is no longer with emergency beds, as beds exist for anyone who wants one. The bus run by the city council goes around every night and homeless people are offered such beds. Depending on the weather many people will take the bus one night and not another. The challenge now is to...
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I find it sad that when I try to give information, people do not hear. Some 68,819 houses were built last year, which is an enormous amount.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: We are spending â¬1.88 billion, an enormous amount, and I want to keep that going. The needs of approximately 13,000 people on the housing list will be met this year. If we can maintain that for a few years, we will break the back of the problem.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: It is a question of interest rates. The key is affordability.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: A bus comes around for them.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The figure increases every year.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The supply of accommodation units increases every year. The Senator should look at the graph.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I would not know. I have never met any of them.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: That is right.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: Are the plans in yet?
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: The councils are not doing it.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I was referring to a particular local authority.
- Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: I could show the Senator the figures.
- Housing Provisions: Motion. (25 May 2004)
Noel Ahern: She could get it if she wanted.