Results 1-12 of 12 for destroyed speaker:Eoghan Murphy

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...history was mentioned in the Chamber but we do not need to go back to the 1920s or 1930s. We can go back to very recent history and see the legacy of Fianna Fáil in the housing sector and how it destroyed it, outsourced the provision of social housing to the private sector and managed to destroy the private housing sector in its entirety. We are recoiling from that. Earlier,...

Residential Tenancies (Prevention of Family Homelessness) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to work with local authorities and NGOs, and we can exit more families from homelessness as we did last year. At all times we need to honest about the challenges we face. Our housing sector was destroyed and is being rebuilt in a way that did not happen before, that is, so that it cannot be broken again. We are also seeing other things happening in the economy such as increased demand...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...agencies, to the new body for, inter alia, affordable residential development." I welcome any opportunity to discuss housing issues in the Chamber. While I always try to be constructive in my engagements, the Fianna Fáil Party motion makes it difficult to do so because it lacks all credibility. Either Fianna Fáil is aware of its recent role in the over-leveraging of the housing...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...50,000 new homes be added to the social housing stock. The affordability scheme was stood down in 2011 because it was not necessary after the previous Government - prior to 2011 - had effectively destroyed the economy. As we all know, there was a massive decrease in house prices. That is why we had to stand down the affordability scheme. At the time, affordability was not a problem....

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (20 Feb 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...the State. Where will we build them? It will also require additional jobs - at least 660,000 net new jobs - in the economy because over that period of the next 20 years, many jobs of course also will be destroyed through technology and innovation. Consequently, we will have to create 660,000 net new jobs in the economy over that period. By 2040, one in four of us will be over the age...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...are only at about 71% of where they were in 2007, yet they are still pricing people out of the market. It is important, as we recover our economy and as we rebuild our housing sector, which was destroyed in the collapse, that we do so in a sustainable way and that we make sure affordability is at the centre of everything we are trying to do. That is why we introduced the Rebuilding...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...in 2007 and how we are off the peak in terms of house prices, it is the case that rents are above the peak level of 2007 because of the dramatic shortage we have and the way the housing sector was destroyed in the crash. There is a real affordability challenge around people who are trying to rent and that is why we are trying to progress the cost rental model as quickly as possible. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...get such assistance when purchasing his house and was making the point in the context of the Government not wanting a return to 100% mortgages because of how dangerous they are and how they helped to destroy our economy. Under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme, one can use the help-to-buy measure that was previously introduced or prove savings of 3% and verify a gift of 7%. There...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Data (11 Jul 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...to the Tribunal which are not required to be stored under the above legislation are being returned by the Tribunal to the parties who provided same; or if not required to be returned, are being destroyed with the consent of said party. This process is on-going as there is a significant number of parties and documents involved. The Tribunal compiled in excess of 600,000 records,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: Did you see any documents being destroyed after the meeting?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: ...are conscious of the mandate every single Member was given in 2011 to fix the economy and also to reform society and the political structures in the country so that the mistakes of the past, which destroyed the economy, cannot happen again. That is our central mandate and at every step of the way we must ask whether we are doing enough, reforming enough and changing enough to make sure it...

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues: Statements (21 Jun 2012)

Eoghan Murphy: When Oppenheimer saw the results of his first test of the atomic bomb he had helped to create, he said, "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds." He was quoting from a Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. It cuts directly to much of what we are speaking about and why we are discussing this important issue. Every year on 6 August a small group of people gather by a cherry blossom tree in...