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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Ciarán Lynch: I suggest that the land banks NAMA has amassed in recent times have, perhaps through a process of default, overcome the constitutional difficulties identified in the Kenny report. It is now possible for an agent acting on behalf of the State to control the release of land to the market, as opposed to what occurred with developers in the past. Is this something the witnesses have considered...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...the cost of the land and the exorbitant profits made by developers in those years. In that context I ask for a debate on the broader construction sector. In particular I would like to dust off the Kenny report published in the 1970s, which was an excellent study into how we prevent a property bubble based on the price of land.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Jun 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...will not even function in the interests of the State and the people. If we cannot tell them what to do, we need our own strategic investment bank. A huge problem remains. I have just read the Kenny report and it is complicated. It is difficult to come up with a system to control the price of development land but it is very much worth doing.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...the economic collapse, so it is important for the State to control the issue. It will not do so until it addresses the problem of how much development land can be sold for. Everybody is familiar with the Kenny report which was published approximately 25 years ago. At that time the Kenny report referred to allowing development land to be sold - I am quoting from memory - for something...

Europe Week: Statements (6 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...that people were allowed to accumulate incredible profits on the sale of land. Only a handful of people controlled most of the development in Dublin city, which, sadly, is still true today. In 1974 the Kenny report recommended that the price of development land only be allowed to rise a certain percentage above the price of agricultural land. It would make a lot of sense for the...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Clare Daly: ...I was a councillor in Fingal County Council for 13 years and even during the boom the State house building programme was incredibly limited. One of the key reasons was the failure to implement the Kenny report and control the price of building land. Yet we spend hundreds of millions of euro every year subsidising the private rental sector rather than delivering a national house-building...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: ...paying huge prices for houses. These couples are now in negative equity and have distressed mortgages. Back in the 1970s, when I was a young clerical officer in South Tipperary County Council, the Kenny report on the price and value of building land was published. It was widely accepted and recommended but never implemented. Unfortunately, this means we have had to endure the debacle...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Bradford: ...of State, along with his Government colleagues to ensure that we have a very holistic debate about housing in this country. There has not been such a debate since the 1970s when we had the famous Kenny report. Government after Government has used housing, the price of houses, the income generated from VAT and other taxes, as an economic driver. The housing industry, rather than being an...

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: ...is a massive gap between what people earn and the price of housing. We have to keep an eye on this issue and put in place steps to address it. I would still be in favour of the implementation of the Kenny report. On an issue I raised in a parliamentary question to the Minister last week, life loans were sold by Bank of Ireland which I do not believe were appropriate to sell to older...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Mar 2013)

Patrick Nulty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review and implement in full the recommendations of the 1977 Kenny Report to regulate land valuations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11040/13]

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...tax would bring in much-needed revenue. Despite submissions from reputable organisations and a report by the Commission on Taxation in 2009, the site value tax was not considered. If the recommendations in the Kenny report of 1973 had been adopted, we might have been spared the reckless planning and crazy rezoning that took place when landowners and property speculators made huge...

Seanad: Rent Supplements: Motion (4 Jul 2012)

Paul Bradford: ...rent supplement towards a real housing solution and policy. We have not had a substantive debate on housing in a political generation. Former colleagues of ours published, debated and ignored the Kenny report and since then there has been no real housing policy apart from building and speculating. A housing estate was not a place where people and families lived; it was a profit vehicle...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: ...Féin is that some people can still become very rich from rezoning decisions. If that aspect of planning is not addressed it will happen in future as well. In order to address that matter, the Kenny report needs to be implemented. If that were done, when land is rezoned for residential and other developments local authorities could purchase it for its agricultural value plus 25%. That...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...a shopping mall. That is just one example. Other heritage sites are also at risk from extremely bad planning. So much of this could have been avoided. I gave the example from 2004. In 1974 the Kenny report was produced. If that had been implemented, much that was wrong with planning in this country might never have occurred. With regard to the motion, it is a case of what the...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...All planning decisions should be made in a comprehensible and transparent way. That is the start of solving the problems in this sector. Central to these problems is land speculation. In 1974 the Kenny report called for an effective end to land speculation. If only this recommendation had been implemented, proper standards would have been set, starting with planning procedures and...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Séamus Healy: ...those who are responsible for what happened during what can only be described as the disgraceful orgy by developers in recent years. These are the same people who prevented implementation of the Kenny report recommendations on the price of building land many years ago. Had they been implemented, the major difficulties we have encountered in recent years would at least have been...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2012) See 1 other result from this answer

Patrick Nulty: Question 816: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review and implement in full the recommendations of the 1977 Kenny Report to regulate land valuations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18004/12]

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Murphy: ...do not go to the heart of the problem in terms of their requiring reform of the system. I believe the current system needs to be changed. For example, it is safe to conclude that had the Kenny report been implemented we would not be debating the Mahon report nor would we be in the depth of economic crisis. Prior to establishment of the Mahon tribunal to investigate planning corruption in...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Robert Dowds: ...of that party's greatest electoral support. There are some good suggestions among the recommendations of the Mahon report. However, overall they are far too legalistic and not broad enough. The Kenny report has been adverted to. One of the key measures of that report which would help to prevent corruption is if the price of building land were regulated. The proposal in the report was...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...on rezoning. This means an independent planning regulator. Standards in public office ought to be more rigorous and there should be a register of lobbyists. The report recommends also that the Kenny report be implemented in full. The investigation behind this report began in 1971 and the report was published in 1974, and it called for an effective end to land speculation. It was...