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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not scapegoating anyone. By the way-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am not caricaturing it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy did not let me finish.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I am finishing on Deputy Daly's points. One has to remember that from the Department's point of view, it is the local authority that comes forward and actually decides. It is the local authority that feels it is appropriate and the right thing to do. From that point of view, we have to work with the local authorities to ensure that this happens. On the recommendations, we need to decide...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Where is the Deputy getting the figures from? The point is that obviously there is a tendering process involved in this and that will all come through, but I am very happy with the rapid build houses. I wanted houses that lasted longer than 30 years, perhaps for 60 or 70 years. I wanted an AA rating and I also wanted to ensure they were built as quickly as possible. They are the fastest...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: No problem. Perhaps the Chairman wants to take another round.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I missed the Deputy's final remark. To what entity did she refer?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: He is probably Senator Coffey by now.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I accept that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: We all know that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: That is brain control.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I will deal with some recommendations at the end of this session.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I will start by responding to the last speaker's questions as they are freshest in my mind. I would never want to fight with Deputy Brophy either. I stand over what I said. I was very conditional in what I said. I did not say it was everyone. I respect that everyone has a choice to make in every individual situation. This is not confined to local authorities. It might be more prevalent...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: There has been much commentary about rapid builds. We have plans for 500 of these. A lot of learning was accrued from the first set of them but they are excellent houses and the fastest ever built. To be frank, one pays for time. Another tender is out at the moment and I believe it will create other economies and learnings that will ensure that there are even more savings. I understand...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Deputy Wallace has the document in front of him. He should read it.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: They are not waiting on money. Let us be honest because this is a myth.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: Look at Wexford. Wexford has €25.5 million. I will not be doing it but if I was there and some other local authority did not spend its money, I would be happy to move even more to Wexford.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: I want to finish off as I do not want to leave out my party colleague, Deputy Brendan Ryan. If I did so, I would be in awful trouble. Also - not because he is my party colleague - he did make some good points. At the end of all of this, there is an issue the committee should bear in mind. Earlier, I spoke about the various pieces of the jigsaw and the range of components. It is...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Alan Kelly: First, as a country we need to set output targets for total housing, both social and private. I strongly recommend that it be done as part of the recommendations from the committee. We need to consider in a constructive way how land is being managed or made available for social housing. Effectively, we need an asset management system nationwide relating to housing and how houses are...