Results 541-560 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: Water and development charges are approximately €15,000 per unit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: That would be considerably more than €300,000. It is in the range of €470,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: What I am trying to get to is whether it is possible to deliver homes in Dublin for €300,000 if one removes the land costs, as has already been done in this case, and water and development levies, which only equate to €15,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It definitely includes finance costs. We are talking about a three-bedroom semi-detached house, which is what the LDA has delivered. I am asking this because the LDA is in the process of bringing the properties at Shanganagh to the market this summer. I suspect that, with an equity share, they may be for sale in that territory.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: The equity will be €100,000. The price at which those units go on the market, less the €100,000 in equity, is in or around the delivery cost of those units, which will not equate to €300,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It is 52%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: That answers the question without answering it. I appreciate that Mr. Coleman is trying to be politically correct in the answers he is giving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I have read the Bill and I ask Deputy Ó Broin to give me three examples of things in the Bill that are not already provided for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: AHBs have no role in cost-rental tenant in situ.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It is the Housing Agency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I know of three people paying rent to the Housing Agency, not to an AHB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: But this happens.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I apologise for being late.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Surely Deputy Ó Broin is not suggesting that it requires legislation-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: -----if local authorities are already doing it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Deputy Ó Broin well knows that everything relies on this with regard to housing. Everything relies on a good housing official or a good worker who is driving a scheme. We have provided varieties of schemes in a host of areas that have statutory underpinning. Some local authorities are performing with them and some not, regardless of the statutory underpinning. What does Deputy Ó...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It is one of its primary functions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: My view is that what is being proposed here is unnecessary.