Results 541-560 of 4,773 for speaker:Paudie Coffey
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I remind the Senator not to name individuals who are not in the House.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I must ask the Senator to conclude.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Is the Senator seconding the Fianna Fáil amendment?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Like my colleague, Senator Paddy Burke, I welcome the amendment. There was much debate on Committee Stage by Senators on all sides of the House who were asking that an opportunity be given to elected representatives to express and record their views and, if they have any, concerns on applications in their local areas and to submit them as part of any report that goes to An Bord Pleanála...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Standing orders would deal with that issue.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I wish to add to the remarks of my colleague, Senator Colm Burke. Many Senators have raised the concerns over increasing rents but one has to look at this in the context of the overall property and construction market, which has now been dysfunctional for some time. I heard Sinn Féin representing landlords last year as multimillionaires. Some of them may be millionaires but many of...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Tenants' rights were enhanced by the last Government. Senator Gavan has made an incorrect statement.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Week after week Fine Gael says it is coming up with a strategy that amounts to a pig in a poke. One thing that the Minister of State and his colleague, the Minister, have not said at any point is that they will legislate for rent certainty. It is generous of our colleagues in civic engagement to say if we give that commitment then they will work with us.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: It is the landlords who are to blame.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The statements that the Senator has put on record are incorrect.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Local authorities and voluntary housing bodies have bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I had 7,500 votes all the same.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The statements that the Senator has put on record are incorrect. The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: There have been many debates on the housing crisis in this Chamber, the Dáil and local authority chambers around the country. We all acknowledge and recognise that there is a housing crisis in this country. In my view, crisis interventions are required. This Bill is just one of the interventions that are being made by the Minister and the Government. I have said previously that the...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following: Seanad Éireann declines to give the Bill a Second Reading as: - the Bill could place Ireland in breach of Articles 34 and 35 on the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU which relates to the principle of the free movement of goods; - the EU’s analysis, consultation and...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Craughwell is the hurler on the ditch.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: What about tax evasion by Sinn Féin?