Results 14,101-14,120 of 26,901 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. At the very minimum, we should have a vote on the legislation. As part of the debate, we should be allowed put forward motions in order that there be a vote as to whether we renew this extremely draconian legislation which impacts on hundreds of thousands of workers in this country. I would also like to point out that, having raised the matter over a number of weeks at the Business...
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This draconian legislation must be voted on and be discussed in prime Dáil time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Chairman, are Mr. McCarthy's responses supposed to be the responses to our questions the last time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the last time about fire safety and I know it is not our primary topic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can come back to it. With regard to the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme, I asked last time how the Department would deal with the fact that approximately 75% of the original Rebuilding Ireland plans to deliver social housing between now and the end of the programme are based on the scheme. I asked if this would be reviewed, given the near-certainty that this is not possible. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will conclude on that particular point. What we got in the second phase was two units and 1,000 sq. m. short of the 10% rule. In neither phase were any of these units houses. They were all apartments. There were both houses and apartments in the overall development but the social allocation only got apartments, smaller apartments. Where is the social mix in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The second phase was under the Rebuilding Ireland plan. That is taking place now, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know if we will be getting 10%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there provisions, whatever method is used to decide the level of affordability, to prevent investors, even those potentially connected with the developer, from buying up the affordable housing units and then waiting for them to gain value before flogging them at a higher price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was not my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is to stop investors from buying up all of the affordable housing units at whatever level the price is set?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But that is not clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department needs to play a role in this. I have just read a report where a former senior executive in NAMA has gone into a fund with Hibernia Reit and another gang called MKN Property Group. They bought property in Tallaght. Supposedly some of it is for social housing. This is someone who has a conflict of interest having come from NAMA and big vulture funds coming into the affordable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless the Department tells them they cannot sell to these people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department is answering questions on the HAP scheme. I asked a very specific question about it. How many HAP tenancies were delivered last year? Has the Department checked this year to see how re-categorisations there have been of rent allowance recipients?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is, however, no security. We will get the Minister to answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When and where?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could make it here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I visited a large estate last Saturday - I will not name it because to do so would cause panic - in which there are 1,000 timber framed multistorey units, which are a major fire hazard. I was accompanied by two people who have expertise in this area and were of the view that these units are a fire hazard, which was brought to the attention of the authorities some time ago. There may be many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not trying to do that-----