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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The problem is that they cannot get mortgage approval.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry I missed Mr. O'Connor's introduction. I have one question about the take-up of the person insolvency arrangements. Mr. O'Connor was referring to them as I joined the meeting. Given the level of indebtedness in respect of mortgages, we have to acknowledge that there has been a low take-up of the scheme. The point is important because this is one of the major Government-initiated...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On vulture funds, I understand they have to engage but are they willing to do so?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The unfairness with which people in mortgage distress in this country have been treated in the past eight years since the crash is mind-boggling. If anything shows how this system cares nothing for the majority in society, it is the fact that so little was done by the previous Government to help people. This was one of the key issues, as I am sure people remember, in elections a few years...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: He has.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, can I just-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I know, but Deputy Durkan made a point and-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----there is a lot of evidence that the Minister has a very positive attitude to vultures.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, but I am just giving the corollary of what he said. He met them eight times.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Hall did not make a statement. I asked him a question about whether he agreed. Deputy Byrne is obviously political because she is in Fine Gael. The Minister himself made such a statement while before this committee so this is pathetic.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan can object but-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, we should not be trying to gag people when they come in to the committee.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask Ms Carroll about the massive increase in the private rented sector to which reference has been made. According to the figures of the RTB and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, there were 282,918 rented properties at the end of 2013 and, without boring everybody with all the figures, basically by 2015 that number had increased dramatically and...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Chairman is welcome. For example, the Green Party and even the Labour Party welcomed REITs into the private rented market recently, as did the Department of Finance. As that Department gave them tax breaks, it must have welcomed them. Why would one give a tax break if one did not seek to have more of them? I wanted to ask about rent arrears and over-holding. Ms Carroll says that...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is important because the people out there who are listening to this have to understand that if they do not over-hold, they will be seeking emergency accommodation with all the other people.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I was interested in Mr. Joyce’s suggestion that we need legislation to make the code of conduct obligatory rather than voluntary in respect of mortgage distress and lenders. The committee had a session on legislation that we felt would be necessary to deal with the housing crisis. That suggestion should definitely be added into the mix. I will be interested to hear the comments of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of homeless children in primary and in secondary level education. [9409/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 382. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the requirement by Donegal County Council to have the payment of water charges as a condition for the tenant purchase scheme; if he agrees with this requirement, given there is no requirement for the payment of other utility bills by the tenant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9699/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 375. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of difficulties landlords have had in availing of house insurance if they are to take part in local authority housing schemes such as the housing assistance payment scheme; the number of such cases he is aware of, by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9604/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Student Accommodation (17 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 380. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 4 May 2016, the outcome of his meeting with the students' union in the National University of Ireland Dublin on 2 September 2015; and if he committed to assisting the union in promoting a rent-a-room scheme and the steps he has taken in this regard [9735/16]