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- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: Four years is nothing. Compare and contrast what was built in the previous four years.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: There was nothing built in Waterford over the last four years. Not one house.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I know we are only dealing with one strand. My question only dealt with one strand.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: That strand is the direct build sector. The Minister of State has the authority to direct local authorities to provide for the 90,000 applications. It could be 200,000 people. If he wants to compare and contrast what was built in the last four years with what went before, the Government built nothing in Waterford, for example, nor in Laois nor North Tipperary. I have the list here. ...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: If the Minister of State wants to play that game, he will lose.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I will ask him now what I asked him earlier. Why did his senior Minister tell me two months ago that 1,400 new direct build units would be provided by this Government and local authorities throughout the country this year? That was two months ago. The Government rushes to make so many announcements that it forgets what was said in the previous one. That is what was said two months ago....
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: -----and they see in black and white the disregard-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: -----for the housing provision element of local authorities.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: There are more zeros here than anything else.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: They are not euro, they are duck eggs. Nothing has been built and nothing has been provided. The Government has no interest in sorting out the housing crisis.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: It has been allowed to develop into an absolute scandal.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: I asked the Minister of State that.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: There are 1,400 this year, then.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: There are 1,400 this year, and one in Kilbeggan, I hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: There are 1,400 this year.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: They should not have been allowed to develop into the voids.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: No, we are not. We are dealing with the direct build.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: We can wait for another press release next week or the week after.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: We are only getting warmed up.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government will not win any election on housing.