Results 141-160 of 544 for "kenny report"

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: ...to dominate the skylines in respect of construction. It was not an accident that while those dinners were taking place and this money was changing hands, the Government sat on the findings of the Kenny report and refused to implement reports to control the price of building land. This inaction, more than 30 years ago, has led to the crisis we now face, the price of which now is being...

Family Home Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (3 Feb 2012)

Robert Dowds: ...are likely to be damned to repeat the same mistakes again. We must consider such factors as the spiralling cost of building land. That, in a sense, is a knock-on of our failure to take heed of the Kenny report in the 1970s, which would have put some control on the price of building land. The fuelling of the property market under section 23 was encouraged by Fianna Fáil Governments....

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Catherine Murphy: ...We were accused of driving up house prices because we were trying to limit the availability of land. There is a relationship between speculation and land rezoning and perhaps we should revisit the Kenny report. In doing so we might avoid future problems.

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (9 Nov 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...in the auctioneering business finally gave rise to a review group being established in 2004. This was the period over which the then Taoiseach consistently resisted pleas in this House to look at a Kenny report style mechanism to control the price of building land. Eventually, he kicked to touch and referred the issue to the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. His excuse or...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: ...part of the NAMA legislation and dramatically reduces the incentive for landowners to seek the rezoning of their lands. This is as close as we have been able to get to implementation of the 1973 Kenny report on housing land, without a constitutional referendum. Joined up planning policies have also been a focus of the reforms. The Minister, Deputy John Gormley, and I have put in place...

Seanad: Code of Conduct for Civil Servants: Motion (12 May 2010)

Niall Ó Brolcháin: ...options that will stamp out corruption in our public service and in our society. It is an endless fight and there are many different ideas. Perhaps Senator Twomey and Fine Gael might support the Kenny report in future. It was produced a number of years ago. My grandfather was a civil servant in the Department of Finance. He always said his greatest regret was that when the State was...

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

James Carroll: ...potential, land zoned for development is a monopoly good, the value of which has been created by the State as a result of lack of action. The failure to implement the recommendations of the Kenny report for more than 35 years has been the single biggest reason for the escalation of property prices and we must address this. I urge the Minister of State to look at that. The former head of...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary White: ...and retailers, we could get some of the 42,500 small and medium enterprises up and running again, particularly in the retail sector. The Labour Party, which long talked about implementing the Kenny report but never did anything about it, should pay heed in this regard. The new windfall tax on the sale of land rezoned after purchase will prevent speculation on land. A site value tax, when...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2010)

Joe Costello: ...problems with regard to zoning. The amount of rezoning that has taken place in the last number of years is incredible, as is the fact that windfall profits are still being made from rezoning. The Kenny report, which recommended that profits from rezoning should not be more than 25% of the market value, has not yet been properly implemented. Whenever there are vast sums of money to be...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...must get rid of it. As a society, the fundamental decision we must make is that we can no longer allow situations where land is rezoned to endow a significant benefit to those who own the land. The Kenny report on building land referred to adding 25% to the commercial valuation of land. This happens in particular with agricultural land. A fair amount of money should be given but should...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Alex White: At that time my party argued, in trenchant terms, that there was no requirement to amend the Constitution in order to implement the principal recommendations made in the Kenny report which was published 35 years ago. These issues were canvassed and debated during the lifetime of the last two or three Administrations. It is not satisfactory for those opposite to simply state they are not to...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)

Emmet Stagg: ...bankers. All of this could have been prevented and avoided. The Government played a key role in creating and magnifying the problem which is now a crisis. If the Government had implemented the Kenny report on building land, thereby controlling its price, regulated the financial institutions and not adopted the McCreevy light-finger regulation, none of this would have occurred. Of...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2009)

Trevor Sargent: ...things I would like to see. I have spoken to farmers who regard allotments as a pension plan and there is potential in that area for food production. We need to train people in food skills. The Kenny report will be implemented when local authorities begin to take initiatives on how their communities are to be planned, rather than waiting for developers to do it. Likewise, credit unions...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...them tolerable places to live. All of this is the result of Fianna Fáil policy which has always put the interests of property speculators over the interests of the community. The provisions of the Kenny report on building land prices of nearly 30 years ago are being dusted down and reconsidered. Every time the Labour Party sought the implementation of the Kenny report, we were told that...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...by politicians, banks lent money to the speculators and developers and we are left considering the excessive cost of the tribunals trying to unravel this mess. Why were the recommendations of the Kenny report not implemented, and what do we have to show for this? Heavy mortgages, negative equity, the price of land allowed to move way beyond its actual value, developments of apartment...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009) See 3 other results from this debate

Mary White: ...have landed Ireland - our country, my country - in this situation. In 1973, the Irish Banks' Standing Committee told the Committee on the Price of Building Land, which produced what is known as the Kenny report: The member Banks fully support any measures designed to control for the benefit of the community the price of land for housing and other forms of development. They wish to make it...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: ...sectors. The remedy for this suffering from inflated prices and deficient facilities has been posited for more than four decades, but blithely ignored. Now, at last, a key recommendation of the Kenny report can be put in place. I listened to what Deputy Gilmore said about 1999 and his own submission on the Kenny report. His party has been in Government since the Kenny report was...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2009)

Martin Mansergh: ...say God be with the days of land bonds under our Constitution or at least limited existing use compensation with perhaps a small added margin. Like the former Taoiseach, I am with the spirit of the Kenny report. Part of the reason we have suffered from a property bubble has been too much willingness on all our parts to pay inflated compensation for the acquisition of property, creating,...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...years the Government allowed for 90,000 houses, which was totally unsustainable. The All-Party Committee on the Constitution, on which I served, recommended, for example, the implementation of the Kenny report and stated there was no legal or constitutional obstruction to the Government doing this. However, the Government let land speculation and the housing bubble continue despite the...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Rabbitte: ...take responsibility for answering questions on referendums? I heard Deputy Bertie Ahern on a new radio station say that it was his biggest regret that the Constitution stopped him implementing the Kenny report.