Results 1-6 of 6 for construction industry council speaker:Paul Murphy

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...not outsource that to a for-profit health sector or for-profit education system. The State educates those people so that they are able to provide these necessary skills. However, when it comes to construction, for example, or what will be a vital area of climate response in all its myriad of forms, we are largely relying on the private sector to provide apprenticeships. That simply is...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...the root cause? It is a reliance on the private market to deliver housing and a policy which has seen those at the top, including the big corporate landlords, developers, speculators and the big construction companies, able to profit to a huge extent from this housing crisis. This is not just a housing crisis that affects everybody in the same way. Is this a terrible natural disaster...

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...sector. In the case of housing adaptation grants, this means that the private sector sets the price based on what level of profit it wants to make. It happens at every single stage of the chain, from construction components down to contractors, so that a hefty and ever-increasing chunk of State grants meant to provide people with what they need to be able to live comfortably in their...

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

Paul Murphy: ...of the property developers, the big builders, etc., to the Government and then translated into legislation. What this reveals very clearly is the Irish Home Builders Association, IHBA, part of the Construction Industry Federation and Property Industry Ireland lobbying for precisely the exemption that they got. The argumentation that they use is interesting. According to the IHBA: This...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...or to help buyers, a sort of trickle-down economics idea where if one throws money at developers, hopefully, they will build houses. While I am sure it will make the Government popular among its friends in the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, it will only make the housing crisis even worse by making homes more unaffordable. There should not be a penny more in handouts to those...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...literally the developers who are writing the Government's housing policy. Just a couple of weeks ago, it emerged that the developers had written the strategic housing development laws. According to The Sunday Business Post,industry representatives said that the then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, took their recommendations "lock, stock and...