Results 1-6 of 6 for construction industry council speaker:Joan Collins

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...developers. The submission on this Bill by Community Law and Mediation and Environmental Justice Network Ireland to the committee on housing states: The Bill attempts to fulfil promises made in the Program for Government and appease construction and property industry lobby groups who have long complained that excessively bureaucratic processes, over-regulation, restrictive nature...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: ..., with the remaining 900 to be completed by the middle of this year, they hope. The latest Housing for All progress report attributed the significant delays to the pandemic, citing “reduced capacity in the construction sector and related COVID-19 protocols for surveyors and contractors, given the homes retrofitted under these programmes are occupied”. However, that is not...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: ...then Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing, Noel Dempsey, introduced the Part V requirement, set at 20% of new developments, to be set aside for purchase by local authorities for council housing. They were to be purchased at existing use value. However, after lobbying by developers and the construction industry, no doubt involving the Galway tent and brown envelopes,...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Collins: ...Dublin 8 area of my constituency, 3,500 student accommodation units have been built adjacent to Thomas Street in the past year. Where developers can make money, they are building. The second biggest type of construction in the area is hotels and the third is offices. No homes are being built. That is what people are getting frustrated about. The Minister had a report in respect of...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...are 1,463 homeless families, up from 1,178 in October 2016, a year ago. That includes 394 children. Those figures do not include those families living in overcrowded accommodation. Dublin City Council's housing policy committee issued a report yesterday. We should all read it if we get a chance. I pulled some figures from the report issued at yesterday's meeting. There were 783...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: ...welcome to some aspects of the Bill, these measures will have little or no effect on the overall housing crisis. I would like to cite the foreword of the Government's 2020 strategy for the construction industry. It states: Many factors contributed to the economic catastrophe that hit this country. Many, if not most, of them – lax political management, reckless lending and...