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- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: HAP tenancies are a significant improvement on the alternative-----
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: Can I answer the question?
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: Someone who has not even asked the question is interrupting me.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: The social housing solutions we need to put in place for individuals and families are across a series of different schemes and support programmes. Some the provision is in the private rental market and HAP tenancies are significantly more secure than previous options such as rent supplement and so on. Ultimately, the core issue is that while we increase our social housing stock, we must put...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Boyd Barrett has no answers.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: The Government has been in place only less than a year. We have had a new housing and homelessness strategy in place since last summer, only approximately seven months ago. Since then, we have committed nearly €5.5 billion to providing a very significantly increased number of social houses. We will build approximately 26,000 of the 47,000 that will be coming in. We will provide the...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Boyd Barrett is missing a number of issues. He quoted rapidly increasing rental figures. We responded to it in legislation and with the new rental strategy in December. There was a problem and we are responding to it. He was wrong when he said a record low number of social housing units was delivered last year. That is not right. There was a significant increase on the previous...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: Last year the target for social housing solutions was 17,000. We provided 18,300. This year the target will be more than 21,000. Many of them are HAP tenancies, but there is nothing wrong with that.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: They are secure. They are much more secure than the alternative.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: They are.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: The landlord cannot pull out any time.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: I do not know how the Deputy knows this, as O'Devaney Gardens has not yet been signed off. I do not know how she knows how much people will pay.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: What we have agreed in principle with other political parties, including Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and others, on O'Devaney Gardens is to use it as an example of a new approach to delivering communities of mixed tenure. These will have 30% social housing and 20% for affordable rental. It will not be just for market rents; that would contradict the term "affordable rental" in that...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy and I seem to fundamentally disagree on one issue; I believe it is good to have mixed tenure developments but the Deputy does not.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: It looks as if we must agree to disagree on that.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: It was not a good thing the last time we built thousands of social houses, when we showed the country could do that, and we must get that capacity in place again. This time, when we add another 47,000 to 50,000 social houses to the social housing stock, I want them to be intermingled with private housing and affordable rental accommodation. Family sizes are different, demands are different...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: We are trying to ensure the kinds of mistakes made in the past are not repeated. One way in which we can address those mistakes is the promotion of mixed tenure on public land, which is exactly what we are trying to do.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: We will house more people faster.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: How long has O'Devaney Gardens been sitting there?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Controls (23 Feb 2017)
Simon Coveney: It would not have made any difference in this case if we had decided to link the limitations on rent increases in rent pressure zones to the consumer price index, rather than setting a 4% limit as we have done. When we were drawing up the criteria to be used to determine whether an area would qualify to be designated as a rent pressure zone, we moved away from the process of assessing on the...