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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Ms. Faughnan might check that figure and forward it to us.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask, first, about accommodation standards; second, about the "populist left wing agendas" that the delegation highlighted; third, about the number of landlords; and, fourth, about taxes on profits. I will start with the great standards that the IPOA believes its members are maintaining in the private rental sector. Last year, Threshold received 1,836 queries relating to...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The IPOA is represented in the Dáil at a level five times greater than is the case with the population. In the UK, the number of landlords - 2% of the population - is approximately half that which obtains here. We are expected to believe that it is dreadful if the number of private landlords in Ireland does not increase, but the opposite is the case and we have too many private...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy did not have to assure us of that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sherry FitzGerald? That is just an oxymoron.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: If that is the case, why are the numbers going up?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The number is going up. That is my point.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. O'Brien is saying that it is going down.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am saying that the amount of private rented accommodation has increased.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes. That is what they are.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I sought clarification on the figures, which are extremely important. According to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, both the number of tenancies and the number of landlords have increased. I will provide Mr. O'Brien with the figures because he indicated the number of landlords had not increased. Between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, the number of...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: What I see is that higher rents are bringing landlords back into the marketplace.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They are highly relevant.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am in tears.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: A lot of questions have not been answered. Can the witnesses send us the information if there is not the time to answer them now? The question on increased costs has not been answered nor has the question on how many properties currently being held would be released if owners got the tax break they are seeking.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We need to work that out because we have to calculate whether it would be better not to have such a tax break and make the investment in social housing instead.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: For whom?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. O'Brien said that earlier. I am talking about additional properties that are being held back now that would be released by the association's members and others if we gave them a tax break.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity we are discussing this now rather than at the forthcoming session with the Department of Finance because it would be more appropriate to that. However, I also want to ask about the EU rules, which are a critical issue for the housing situation in this country. To clarify, is it the case that the EU rules are preventing the Housing Finance Agency from lending to local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has liaised with the housing agencies responsible for the implementation of the pyrite remediation process regarding their progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11329/16]