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- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: What does the Minister estimate? I know 8,400 is the target, but I am conscious, as I am sure he also is, of people on waiting lists. How many in that figure of 8,400 will be new contracts?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: How many?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: Minister, I do not mean to be confrontational, we are only trying to get information for our constituencies.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: The total figure here is 15,800 units. The impression is given that these are new housing units available to people on housing lists with 1000 already in local authority ownership. I am pulling that figure back.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: It would be safe to assume the Minister would be doing well to achieve 4,000 new units.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: What does the Minister think would be safe to assume?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: How many new units in total does the Minister expect to provide to local authority applicants in the coming year?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: Will this Vote satisfy 10,000 applicants this year? Will 10,000 applicants find themselves in homes they are not in today?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: We cannot quantify the 8,400.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: We cannot quantify the 8,400 figure. The 1,000 units are already in local authority ownership.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: I appreciate the Minister's breakdown of figures but we would be doing well to realise 10,000 new housing units or solutions for people.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: That is public private partnership questions.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: Is the Minister saying that he is assessing the potential it may have but there is nothing in the Vote whereby funding is set aside to match any progress in respect of PPPs?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: How much is it? How much has been set aside?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: There is no provision this year for any housing use to be provided by means of PPPs.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: I cannot quantify how many units are being provided this year in this Estimate.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: Not this year.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: I will follow the order in the Minister’s opening statement, starting with local government fund payments. Notwithstanding that the Department is no longer paying the general purpose grant to replace the local property tax allocation, the local government fund is being robbed of the rates associated with Irish Water. Even at that, the valuation throughout the country is €60...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015) Barry Cowen: If I could be indulged, on foot of my first question, would it be possible to provide a breakdown county by county basis of the valuations applicable in arriving at the figure of €59 million? I do not expect that today.
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)
Barry Cowen: Will the Tánaiste be more specific on the water services Bill in light of the confusion that abounds as usual on this issue? For example, landlords and tenants are in the dark as to the rights of tenants regarding utility bills such as water services.