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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...and responding to people's dire need for State assistance, whether they are homeless now, at risk of homelessness or on a social housing list, relying on the State to deliver for them. I could go into all sorts of reasons we are where we are today with a dramatic deficit of supply in housing and all the pressure it puts on people but to be honest, my focus is on where we go from here and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Simon Coveney: ...of the European Union boarfish quota, which is a new quota stock. When negotiating access to quota in recent years, we have done very well in that area. We can go through the argument as to why we are where we are when we look to the time Ireland became a member of the EU. I read in the fishing media each week that people are talking about the need to actually change quota and so on. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Simon Coveney: ...views. The Commission's proposal was for much higher than that. Some very influential countries in Europe - the UK and Germany in particular - are adamant that under no circumstances will they accept mandatory capping. So we are where we are and we have to try to find a compromise that works. I agree with the Deputy that people who are receiving more than €150,000 of a single...