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- Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Under fierce pressure from below, the Government is implementing a temporary ban on evictions. That is interesting because we were previously told that a ban on evictions would be unconstitutional. Then Covid came and, under pressure, the Government brought in a ban. It said there were exceptional circumstances and, due to the restrictions on movement for public health reasons, it was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: My first question is for Mr. Parlon. I want to talk about the costs and the question of who pays. I will start with mica. I agree 100% with the points that have been raised by Ms Hone. The mica homeowners are entitled to every penny that will be paid to them under this scheme and then some because the scheme falls significantly short of fully covering the costs. The figure we have for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I listened carefully to Ms Hone's comments and she shone a light on the role of the individual companies that supplied the defective blocks. She also pinpointed what she colourfully and correctly described as the disgraced regime of self-regulation. Would Mr. Parlon agree with the comment that the regime of self-regulation has been a disgrace? Would he agree that many companies in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: From listening to what has been said, one would get the impression that there is the industry on one side and on the other side there are a couple of rogue builders who have caused a problem for everybody else. Yet, I put it to Mr. Parlon that if one looks at the thing in its totality, in terms of what happened with mica, with pyrite and the defects in the apartments, one is looking at a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Does the CIF have members in its ranks who have responsibility in terms of mica, pyrite or apartment defects? Have they been expelled from the CIF?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: We are talking about a whole range of construction companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Pyrite? Apartment defects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Are they still in the CIF?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: So, the companies are still inside the tent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Are those who did not now outside the tent? Have there been exclusions of people who have been told they are not wanted here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: They could start up again under new names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I thank Mr. Parlon. I have two brief questions, one each for Ms Hone and Mr. James. To Ms Hone, on this point that there are still defective concrete blocks and presumably that this could happen again, this is not just Ms Hone’s own personal view, is it? She is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Is she quoting other people on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: That is what I thought the position was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: That is very helpful. Finally, for Mr. James, I am interested in his point about hard costs and soft costs. Take a house that would go to market in the range of €250,000 to €350,000. If one were to strip out the cost for land, if these houses were built on public land and gifted by the State, if one were to take out taxes that were to be waived by the State in the interests...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I know that Mr. James cannot give an exact figure, but as a broad-brush stroke-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Let us take land in Dublin, so. Let us presume that the land is in Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I will conclude by saying that I will look forward to seeing those data when it is published but it would seem to me that if one operated on the basis of no charge on the land, the State waiving the taxes in the interest of affordable housing and it operating on a not-for-profit basis, one could say that the prices would be reduced quite considerably. We will come back to the specific detail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?