Results 8,161-8,180 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio Issues (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: The Minister could try to get it.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: I would like to see a list of those that are not deemed suitable.
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: 148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the planned rescheduling of the recoupment of local authority loans; the authorities involved; the amount per authority; the repayments due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44946/13]
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State for her response. She stated there would be no effect on local authority finances and I take her at her word in that regard. However, as she stated, €15 million in savings are being made. Will the social housing agencies then come out of this in a worse position? If this is the case, can their tenants expect to see increases in their rents? If the...
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: So it is not a saving at all.
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Then it is not a saving at all. The Government simply is paying the amount it owes for the period between June and December at a different time of the year.
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: If it is a saving, how does the Minister of State expect the revenue to-----
- Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: That is fine but if it is an accounting exercise, it should not necessarily be described as a saving because it will be paid, regardless of the time of year at which it is paid. It only builds up people's expectations that if a saving of €15 million is being made, that sum would be available for purchases for some other section of the Department. As I stated earlier, the accounting...
- Other Questions: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: It is the Minister's Department.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Like other speakers, I am surprised the Minister of State has not seen fit to group many of these questions. They seem to overlap. It is normal practice for such questions to be grouped. The Minister of State might respond to that in her reply. What discussions or negotiations has the Minister of State had with NAMA and the local authorities to seek to reap the social dividend that was...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: The Minister of State said more than half the properties available are unsuitable because they are not in locations where there is a need and a list for local authority houses. There are 100,000 on housing waiting lists throughout the country. The Minister of State would do us all a favour if she were to tell us these areas where there is no need for houses to meet local authority housing...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Could the Minister of State agree to group them together now?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State for her response and I look forward to reading it in detail in order to ascertain exactly what information is contained within it. The housing situation is fast becoming a major crisis, with 100,000 on waiting lists throughout the country. In his budgetary speech, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform stated that he was allocating an extra €30...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Basically what the Minister of State is saying is that despite the fanfare attached to the announcement on budget day, the figures remain much the same as they were last year, and there is no great increase as a dividend from the sale of the national lottery licence to which the Minister of State can attest. The money just brings the figures up to much the same rate as last year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Exactly. The Minister of State has given me the clarification I required. What procedures are in place for local authorities to make applications, based on this new figure that the Minister of State claims is supplementary to the initial annual Estimate? When can local authorities be expected to make applications for this? Is the extra €10 million, which the Minister of State...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: So the Minister of State can give me the content of the initial question as to where these 4,400 units will be constructed throughout the country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: 4. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by county of the 4,400 new social housing units due to be operational in 2014 as announced in budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44945/13]
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: The Taoiseach mentioned earlier that the pyrite levy Bill will not be proceeded with.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: Will the Taoiseach indicate to the House the reasons for the Government's decision to not proceed with the levy on quarries?
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Barry Cowen: It is important.