Results 101-120 of 1,741 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: Yes. The Government introduced a scheme to waive water and levy fees, as Mr. Coleman is aware. They are applicable at the moment. Shanganagh had started before that scheme was brought in. If those fees or charges were removed, would the cost have been at €300,000 without any equity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: Water and development charges are approximately €15,000 per unit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: That would be considerably more than €300,000. It is in the range of €470,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: What I am trying to get to is whether it is possible to deliver homes in Dublin for €300,000 if one removes the land costs, as has already been done in this case, and water and development levies, which only equate to €15,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It definitely includes finance costs. We are talking about a three-bedroom semi-detached house, which is what the LDA has delivered. I am asking this because the LDA is in the process of bringing the properties at Shanganagh to the market this summer. I suspect that, with an equity share, they may be for sale in that territory.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: The equity will be €100,000. The price at which those units go on the market, less the €100,000 in equity, is in or around the delivery cost of those units, which will not equate to €300,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: It is 52%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)
John Cummins: That answers the question without answering it. I appreciate that Mr. Coleman is trying to be politically correct in the answers he is giving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I have read the Bill and I ask Deputy Ó Broin to give me three examples of things in the Bill that are not already provided for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: AHBs have no role in cost-rental tenant in situ.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It is the Housing Agency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I know of three people paying rent to the Housing Agency, not to an AHB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: But this happens.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I apologise for being late.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Surely Deputy Ó Broin is not suggesting that it requires legislation-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: -----if local authorities are already doing it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Deputy Ó Broin well knows that everything relies on this with regard to housing. Everything relies on a good housing official or a good worker who is driving a scheme. We have provided varieties of schemes in a host of areas that have statutory underpinning. Some local authorities are performing with them and some not, regardless of the statutory underpinning. What does Deputy Ó...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It is one of its primary functions.