Results 1-6 of 6 for "kenny report" speaker:Ciarán Cuffe

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...

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

Ciarán Cuffe: ...did not lead to significant social gain. We are moving towards a planning Bill which will address the increase in the price of building land by implementing one of the measures recommended in the Kenny report. This report, which was published in 1973, makes for good reading because even back then there was disquiet over the major increases in the price of land and a strong belief that...

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: What about the Kenny report when it comes to platitudes?

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: ...would ensure quality as well as quantity. In planning, we would build living communities rather than soulless housing estates and end the legacy of bad and corrupt planning. We would implement the Kenny report on housing rather than talk about it and we would build affordable, energy efficient homes. With regard to transport, we would have the political courage to join the dots and build...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: ...decisions. We have to put in place measures to ensure the majority of the increase of value in rezoned land accrues to the State and we have to endorse and legislate for the recommendations of the Kenny report of 1974. Put simply, that report stated that local authorities should have a pre-emptive right to acquire rezoned land at the existing use value plus 25%. That, in one fell swoop,...

Constitutional Reform. (15 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: ...that instead of land being grossly inflated in value by rezoning, local authorities should have the pre-emptive right to acquire land at the existing use value plus 25%, as was recommended in the Kenny report some 30 years ago. Does the Taoiseach have any proposals to bring forward legislation in this area? It is not a matter for local authorities but for Government and we need...