Results 861-880 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials for taking that retrospective piece on board. I raised the issue at our meetings of this committee because it is important that the system is not clogged up with people who have already been approved for a grant trying to reapply for a higher grant. I welcome the clarification. On cost rentals, for some time I have told...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: On the repair and lease scheme, I am a strong advocate for changing the dial in terms of the delivery of units in my own county of Waterford. On 14 April, the new Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, and, earlier, the Minister visited the old nursing home at St. Joseph's House, Manor Hill, Waterford city. The building belonged to the Little Sisters of the Poor but it is now being converted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: The Minister is correct. Fifty percent will be local authority homes and 50% will be private rental homes, which will have a very positive impact on the private rental market in Waterford City.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I agree with the Minister on the importance of the fresh start principle. I sent him a copy of an email, having blocked out the names, received by my office about a month and a half ago from a lady who is separated and divorced and who, because of the change in rules from 20% to 10% and the changes to implement fresh start via the shared equity scheme, is now going to be moving into a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Not enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Will the Department issue it by circular?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: What of targeted leasing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Nobody does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I will start with the vacants. In response to Senator Boyhan, Ms Timmons mentioned the vacant property refurbishment grant and the expansion of same. When will the revised criteria be available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: It is to be in place for 1 May. Is the intention that the guidance will be available before that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: In terms of the revised figures, Ms Timmons is not able to share them with us at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: The revised grant amounts of €30,000 and €50,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I understand. The point I will make in that respect, which Ms Timmons might take it away, is that it would be very important that the revised grant amounts that are available are applied to existing projects that are already in the pipeline. The issue would be that if they are not and a project has not commenced, we will see people withdrawing from the approvals they already have and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Okay. I will move from the vacants on to the cost-rental homes. We have touched on some of the viability issues. In terms of activating the build-to-rent scheme, there are a significant portion of permissions in place at the moment on which the market is not delivering and does not have any intention of delivering. I have said over many months that there is huge potential there to be able...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Is there a case to be made that if local authorities, particularly in urban and city areas, have schemes on which they have gone out to tender and the tenders have come back much higher than anticipated, and the only way they can get those numbers to work is if the figure of what was €75,000 is increased to €100,000 or €125,000, the Department will actively look at that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: I am referring to a specific scheme in which I have seen the modelling and it simply does not work on the €75,000. It will probably work on the €100,000 and it will deliver 22 two-bed homes in Waterford city for rent, which is something that is just not in the rental space in Waterford city at the moment. I take it that Ms Timmons will take that observation away. If I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)
John Cummins: -----awaiting something from the Department. I would appreciate if Ms Timmons could clarify what that may be.