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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: I thank Threshold for its excellent report. In Athlone up to 6,000 students attend the institute of technology. One must consider the amount of accommodation they take up. In the past we have looked to get accommodation campuses built for these students through public private partnerships. However, the Department will not allow this to happen, as it is completely against public private...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: I echo what has been said by other members. When we were discussing the programme for Government, there were 15 Independent Deputies in the room and, no different from those here, we all raised the same questions that have been put to the Department today. Despite Ms Faughnan's advice to the committee that these measures are in place, they are not. As my colleagues have stated, it is the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: Is it possible for a grant to be given to those residents in vulnerable flood-prone areas to lift, for example, sockets off the ground or to tile the house inside to ensure when water comes in, it goes out? Will the Department look at such a grant because it will save millions of euro in claims every three or so years?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: In Athlone during the recent floods, we saved 120 houses. However, there is nothing to say that if it happened again, those houses will not flood. Those residents have not got any grants. It was an emergency in November and it is still an emergency today. Will a grant be made available to residents in such circumstances to do the works now on their houses to prevent another problem...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: I agree with the Deputy, but in a lot of towns CPOs are made for listed buildings. It is a no-brainer for somebody to develop a listed building and if we are to change legislation, we need to look at that issue, too.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: I thank the witnesses for their very detailed submission. If we were to heed everything in it in order to make matters work, it would be great. Many people have great ideas and many others blame those in government. I listened to much being said about local authorities. It is fair to say that in the past ten years successive Governments have left local authorities with no money for the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: The Chairman is very fair but people coming in here to score political points is what has got us into the mess we are in today. Everyone should be here in the best interests of the homeless so they should not come in and use the committee as a place to score political points. There is no room in this committee for that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: Many families and small children are becoming trapped in the homelessness crisis. I recognise that it is a significant problem. Family homes are being affected by what is going on in the banks. We are talking about what is going on in the State. Two ordinary people with a mortgage on their house might be spending €900 per month on repayments. If one of them loses their job, the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: Everyone who comes in here talks about social and affordable housing. The affordable housing model that was set out has not worked. Regardless of the constituency one goes to, it has not worked. I want to hear the witnesses' view on that. In my local authority, anyone living in an affordable house had to be bailed out by the State in the difficult times. I am curious to hear the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: I should have said shared ownership.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: The prices of some of them were crazy.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Kevin Moran: All the talk is about on-balance sheet and off-balance sheet. If we come up with ideas in this committee, we have to refer to the issue of finance. Is it fair to say that regardless of the ideas we come up with, they must meet the requirements in that regard or nothing will happen in terms of those ideas? We meet here every Tuesday and Thursday. The witness said the Minister came to him...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Kevin Moran: It will not be easy to solve the problem. I am a realistic person. I am from the Longford-Westmeath constituency and I know how hard it is to get over the hurdles the county manager-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)

Kevin Moran: It is not mine. I would like to put a question. Much of the focus is on the cities but we cannot forget rural areas. Have the officials put forward proposals to buy land for local authorities that do not have land? Has the land of State bodies such as CIE, which has huge landbanks, been considered? This land could clearly be used for social and affordable housing and even for private...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Kevin Moran: Go on, Mattie.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Kevin Moran: We all have our mojo so.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Kevin Moran: He is working hard. He is a new Minister.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Oct 2016)

Kevin Moran: I fell up it.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Kevin Moran: As this is my maiden speech in the House I say to fellow Deputies that it is an honour and privilege to stand here today as a Member of the Thirty-second Dáil. I thank the voters of Longford-Westmeath for giving me the opportunity to represent them. Over the years, the constituency has been honoured by the calibre of its public representatives who have graced this Chamber and I...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (3 Nov 2016)

Kevin Moran: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6 May 2016, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Finance Tánaiste and Minister for...