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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, there is a tax issue in respect of sites and land-banking which has never been dealt with by the State. Given that I am younger than him, the Minister is probably more familiar with the Kenny report, which was published in 1974, than I have ever been. Without a shadow of a doubt, the biggest single problem around the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...was sold in Clontarf for which the developer paid more than €220,000 per unit. We have not dealt with the issue. It is an absolute scandal that the State has not dealt with land banking. The Kenny report published in 1974 is gathering dust on the shelves. The Minister said that nationalising all aspects of housing is not the answer. Nobody is saying it is the answer. We...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)

...were in some schemes totalling 40% of the cost. That is untenable and we have made recommendations about sites and unused State land being made available for the sector. That is critical. We also reference the Judge Kenny report from the early 1970s about land value. The Oireachtas committee considered that 20 years ago, indicating that it was not unconstitutional and should be...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: ...not go back to the publication of the Moriarty tribunal report, which was only three years ago, to see the influence of this lobby of builders, developers and land speculators. One can look to the Kenny report published 41 years ago in 1974. Basically, the Kenny report contained recommendations that would have ended speculation in building land. That is the reason not one of its...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Denis O'Donovan: .... It is a very sad situation. The Government side should reflect on a report on property by Mr. Justice Kenny in the mid-1970s and eke away at the notion of a society with haves and have-nots. The Kenny report was put on the shelf and ignored by the then Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition in the mid-1970s. My party in power ignored it and it may be about time for our society to seriously...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

...members of the public. Unfortunately, those inquiries were shut down. The final thing that we did, and it's important ... I really do believe it's important because you can go right back to the Kenny report, back in the '70s, which recommended a windfall tax to deal with this sort of corrupt over-zoning that we were witnessing - that's an 80% windfall tax. And then we went through a...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Can I ask, Ms Burton, you refer on your opening statement, on page 17, to the 1974 Kenny report. Could you explain to the committee the reasons why the rainbow coalition did not implement the findings of the Kenny report?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Mr. Michael O'Flynn: Well, I, I'm aware of the Kenny report that never actually ... I think anything happened with it, as such, but-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

...pressed in the House to go back and look at land prices when it was showing that land prices had moved from 12% of the cost of house to 25%, to go back and look at the housing report names ... the Kenny report of years earlier and I did that. I spent a considerable amount of time with the then Attorney General looking to see what could we do short of a constitutional referendum on...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Mr. Derek Quinlan: It didn't just relate to the site in Stillorgan, land prices in general have gone up hugely. I mean, the Kenny report back in the '70s tried to do something about the price of land, or building land, and the recommendations were never followed to the best of my knowledge.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...It seems to emerge on a regular basis as a reason for not doing the right thing far too often. We were looking at something similar when there was contemplation of implementing the findings of the Kenny report in the 1970s. Some people would argue that our Constitution gives greater rights to property than it does to the individual. It does need to be addressed. It would be so much...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...problems with this. This is not a land tax and the Government is not dealing with the problem of landbanking. The biggest problem in the construction industry is landbanking and the fact that there was not even a semblance of implementation of the Kenny report, which the situation is screaming out for. The 3% levy is a token gesture and there are too many loopholes for words. First, if...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...Constitution, we cannot, for example, have rent caps, and when it comes to commercial property, we cannot end upward-only rent reviews and we cannot tax rezoned land in the way that was envisaged in the Kenny report. We need to change our Constitution to reflect the modern-day issues that need this kind of attention and protection. In terms of economic rights, we are living in a country...

Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...sector and social housing is not available. Renting accommodation is too expensive. In the housing sector land-banking and land speculation take place and nothing has been done about it. The Kenny report is still being ignored. The Government is ignoring the elephant in the room. A two-bedroom apartment in Dominick Street today is €1,400 per month.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Joe Higgins: We have to be very serious. I mean, would your sustainable model not outlaw, or not, speculation and profiteering in building land and the implementation of something like the Judge Kenny report of 1974, which you may be familiar with, which recommended control of speculation in building land?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

...responsibility. Land speculation happens in every single boom. It is not down to firms such as ourselves to fix that because only government can do so. It has been an issue since 1972, when the Kenny report was published. We need to put a system in place that shares the benefit of rezoning decisions and speculation with the wider community and not just for the benefit of the owner of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael McGrath: Thank you, Chairman. Mr. McDonald is very welcome and I thank him for coming in to us. May I start by asking him about the Kenny report of 1974, which was the committee on the price of building land? Mr. McDonald refers to it in his book, The Builders, co-authored with Kathy Sheridan. Can he advise the committee what the central recommendation of the Kenny report was, and what impact does...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: ...being seen here as impossible to enshrine the right to water in the Constitution. I have heard Mr. Justice Hogan and other constitutional experts say that maybe we should expand and look again at the Kenny report. The right to property was watered down in a local government Act which allowed for social housing needs. Maybe we should think outside the box. What about the right to...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., obviously, is going to happen, but the key aspect is regulating the price of building land. This issue was raised a long time ago. I think Deputies Peter Mathews and Thomas P. Broughan might remember the Kenny report when we were just four or five years of age. Do the Deputies remember it?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...the centre of Dublin which bear witness to that. Why are the measures not coming in now on land that is already zoned and serviced, as opposed to in a few months' time after public consultation? We are still awaiting the implementation of the Kenny report from 1973. I note the additional €10 million for accommodation and services for homeless people. I ask that a proportion of...