Results 1,441-1,460 of 2,457 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What has worked well in my county of Waterford is the carrot-and-stick approach taken in CPOs versus making them aware of the other schemes, such as repair and lease, which has delivered 165 units - 50% of the national total. When I see a single unit in both the Kildare and Meath local authorities, more needs to be done in that space. It frustrates people to see vacancy and dereliction, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Have either council sought expressions of interest from the market in the delivery of turnkey affordable units?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: The environment has changed and other local authorities have fed into that. What sort of interest has there been in Meath and Kildare in delivering affordable housing using a turnkey model? This model seems to be the quickest way the councils can achieve their targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is good to hear. The councils have said they will set up their systems for the interchange between the LDA piece, which is important. Unfortunately, from the experience I had in Waterford, there are advantages and disadvantages to being up first, in that some of the issues are experienced first-hand. One of the issues is the fact that a process is being sold rather than a product....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That has not been used by many local authorities. I would like feedback on how the council found that process. There is often criticism of the four-stage approval process. Projects can be delivered through a single-stage process. I assume there are risks in the single-stage process, but the council has overcome them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Has Kildare County Council utilised the single-stage process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is interesting. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There are a few associated issues with delivery and maintenance of stock, if I could just diverge slightly. One of the advantages that the AHB sector would see in terms of cost rental, in particular, is that there is a sinking fund built into the calculations for the units for maintenance over a period of 30 or 40 years. Obviously, such a maintenance sinking fund does not exist in local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: What was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is a major jump.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Some 22 weeks is probably average or better than average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There is a balance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: That is an exceptional length of time for a unit to remain vacant, given all of the associated elements with that. Is there a framework system in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: There is a framework system in place and it is still at 39 weeks. They do not go out in bundles-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Kildare County Council is introducing a framework.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Does Meath County Council have a framework in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Again, similar to the vacancy and dereliction on the private side of things, we must give a good example from the local authority side. These are the calls we always get as public representatives, concerning, for example, a council property that has been vacant for six months or a year. We must be acutely conscious of this type of situation in respect of leadership. If we are preaching one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
John Cummins: Of course.