Results 7,701-7,720 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In my area, Fingal County Council has reduced the practice of houses being boarded up-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----when they become vacant to a very small number, less than 35, but one needs to repair houses and that is all now done within six months.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say that houses are one of the most important commitments of this Government. We have supplied the funding. I want to see the councillors on all the county councils co-operate with county managers around the country to get houses built.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In some cases councillors have delayed the building of houses-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----through, in some cases, spurious objections to planning and other issues. Everyone agrees with proper planning concerns but some councillors and parties must cut to the chase-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and co-operate with councils to build houses.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should talk to the people who got the houses.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is for a three-bed house.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The economic content of the argument Deputy McDonald has just put forward is completely absurd.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It means that however busy the Deputy is, she is not in a position to get familiar with what is happening in housing.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I regret that.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If we were talking about market solutions, we would-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----be looking at the Fianna Fáil solution.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Fianna Fáil solution before the party left the pitch was to leave housing to the private market.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Instead, both Fine Gael and Labour in government got the largest investment programme for housing in the history of the State.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Where is the money for that programme coming from? It is coming from the taxes people in this country are paying and from the country's renewed capacity to borrow-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: ----at cheap rates of interest. I do not know why the Deputy is in denial, because all over the country, county councils have been given some of the largest allocations in their individual histories to build more houses for social purposes.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In addition, on the finance side, we have a whole series of initiatives undertaken by NAMA, the NTMA and the strategic investment funds to get affordable housing.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald should remember that in all of this a very important group of people are the ones who have now been working for a number of years, who are renting but want to buy.