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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...Minister personally wishes to resolve the housing crisis. He has moved by bringing forward the action plan. My constant theme has been that its focus is wrong. The focus is on kickstarting the construction industry, but most of those houses will be private houses. The planning permissions the Minister is talking about accelerating will generally be for private houses which will be...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----rather than to councils. Dr. Lyons has said that there has been some interest from private investors in the social housing market. Will he expand on what he means by that? Does he mean getting involved in it or buying houses up? The position is not clear. Dr. Lyons raised a number of issues about loan ratios and property prices. He implies in his submission that reducing the cost...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: ...children. She was evicted the following weekend to make way for paying customers and has lived in three different hotels and hostels. I had to pay for two nights accommodation for her because the councils are not even providing emergency accommodation. Yet, the Government has come here today with no sense of urgency whatsoever about the housing emergency facing the State. There is a...