Results 81-100 of 545 for "kenny report"

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...the market not to keep investing in hoarding land, that it would not turn a quick buck when it was rezoned. I do not know why that measure was removed. It was a sensible lesson and it applied the Kenny report, going back 40 years but for no reason that I can see the last Government withdrew it. It is legal. It was in operation and while it did not raise revenue it was a signal that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

...terms of planning, in multi-unit dwellings house rules are coming on stream. Many management companies now stipulate that units may not be used for short-term lets. Such measures are on the increase. The Kenny report on vacant sites was published a very long time ago, and successive Dáileanna have baulked from using tax and legislation to change behaviour. In effect, private...

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...stage. I have stated before that I was a member of an Oireachtas committee on the Constitution more than ten years ago. We examined a number of measures, with one being the implementation of the Kenny report relating to the value of land, specifically having only reasonable profit rather than windfall profits. At the time our legal adviser was a very eminent person, Mr. Gerard Hogan,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

...its cost thereafter. The private sector goes into business to make a profit. That is understandable. The private sector is seeking housing incentive packages from policy makers, for example, 9% VAT. Since the Kenny report, land in Ireland has accumulated a large amount of betterment that the public has not benefitted from but from which developers have. That is wrong. The Deputy...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...by the previous Government. We proposed it should come forward earlier than intended. That is also why we proposed in our Bill last week that we should implement the recommendations of the Kenny report, which would be a deterrent to developers sitting on land which could be used for building social houses in the future.

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016) See 4 other results from this debate

Brendan Howlin: ..., and will remain so but there is a need for decent standards. The other core issue in the Bill relates to finally tackling the cost of development land. I am as guilty as anybody else in this House. The Kenny report predates any of us coming into this House. It was a solution that was put forward then to ensure that someone would not make an unconscionable killing because they...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... In fact, doing something about deterring developers from sitting on sites with permission would do far more. I intend to bring in legislation next week to address this in the context of the Kenny report and by bringing forward the vacant sites levy. That is for another day, but the fact that there are so many existing planning permissions is enough to suggest that the problem does not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...Party which has drafted legislation on two issues. I ask the Taoiseach to give these two issues careful attention. The first is that of rent certainty and the second is the implementation of the Kenny Report on building land which is long overdue. We are all responsible for the fact the recommendations of that report have not been implemented which would ensure that building land was...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: First Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... The Bill contains a number of measures including one regarding the amount of compensation made in the compulsory acquisition of land and proposes the implementation of the recommendations in the Kenny report of 1973, following on from the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which examined the proposals in 2004 and found that they did not contravene the Constitution...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in the greater Dún Laoghaire-south Dublin area are in the housing crisis. They are in an emergency situation. One does not have to be a radical to see things this way. In the 1970s there was the Kenny report, which concluded that we had to control all building land. We had to control prices and supply or we would not meet social need and social demand. Is that not now obviously...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: ..., it is worsening. For most citizens, over its 15 year lifetime, the Flood-Mahon tribunal revealed a history of brazen attempts to subvert the democratic planning process. Failure to implement the Kenny report of 1974 allowed the hoarding of huge land banks around the greater Dublin region and similar practices around other cities and towns in Ireland. When development plans came...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...average cost of supplying a house is €330,000, but only €150,000 of this figure relates to the cost of construction. More than half of the cost is made up of taxes and, in particular, the cost of land. We made a proposal to implement the Kenny report, whereby if landowners were to be compensated for the compulsory purchase of building land, they should be paid the...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Denis Landy: ...Housing Act 2015 to bring forward the levy to 2017. This would further encourage the use of vacant land which, as has been said, is lying idle while thousands of people wait on housing lists. The Kenny report of 1973, which has lain on the shelves since then, is adopted in our Bill, with one or two modifications. The issue is constantly being debated as being unconstitutional. In 2004,...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Tommy Broughan: ...that. He has mentioned the word "emergency" in various speeches and interviews but he has not declared an emergency and said "let's go for it". Yesterday, the Labour Party produced a Bill based on the Kenny report, which should have been implemented. I commend Deputy Jan O'Sullivan on bringing forward the Bill. The Labour Party had five years to bring it forward and do something...

Seanad: Action Plan for Housing: Statements (20 Jul 2016)

Denis Landy: ...take on board a number of issues my party sought to address in a Bill on social and affordable housing that we published this week. The first of these is the recommendations from the long-discussed Kenny report. In the Minister's action plan, he said that lands are currently zoned to satisfy a population of 6 million but there is no breakdown of these lands. The Minister knows - given...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: .... I am appalled that the Minister thinks we should give public land bought at the highest prices to private companies on which to build to provide social housing rather than the other way round. The Kenny report has been quoted by the Deputy from the Labour Party. Successive Governments have refused to act on it. We have refused to recognise the long-term gain in providing homes for...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (29 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Jan O'Sullivan: If the availability of affordable land is one of the problems in local authorities building houses, will the Government consider implementing a recommendation made in the Kenny report of more than 40 years ago, one that was considered to be constitutional by an Oireachtas all-party committee? I am referring to land being made available at its existing zoning level price, usually...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...as imposing a penalty on those who had the temerity to provide a house for themselves because they happened to be in a particular income bracket. On the control of land prices, we had the Kenny report, the McKinsey report and Myles Wright reports. Produced at different times, they all addressed the same issue, but for one reason or another, it was decided not to implement them,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016) See 2 other results from this debate

...that goes back almost 100 years. The process tends to lead to a higher open market value than one might otherwise think, if one were negotiating on the open market. In fact, I will touch on the Kenny report because it was suggested I might do so. It recognises, if one looks at the compulsory purchase order, CPO, procedures, that the outcomes are likely to lead to higher values than if...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Professor P. J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin (10 May 2016)

...to be looked at. The other issue to be looked at is land. Land prices feed into high house prices, which is an issue we have failed to deal with over a very long time. Some committee members will remember the famous Kenny report in 1973 where Kenny proposed that land should not escalate but that the State should purchase it at its existing use value plus 25% for compensation. The State...