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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...and we are fighting over rural accommodation all over the country where protests are taking place. We have a perfectly acceptable former hospital owned by the State, the HSE being the biggest land hoarder or accommodation centre hoarder in the country, with 170 buildings. Why has the Department not insisted that Baggot Street hospital be facilitated as an IPAS centre?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Jordan stated, regarding the land aggregation, that some of the sites were not suitable and that the Housing Agency had offered them as Ukrainian accommodation sites. Is that correct? Why would the sites be suitable for accommodating Ukrainians if they were not suitable for accommodating Irish people?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: It was interesting that Mr. Jordan made the point. If it is the case that we will throw up a few modular homes on any bit of land that is available, I do not find that acceptable. I do not think anybody does. The lack of communication in our communities is giving rise to the far right being able to cause problems and riots. We are expected to integrate. That is what communities do but...

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

Verona Murphy: ...decisions are judicially reviewed - which is frequently and up to the tune of €10 million up to the last time I checked - we have seen the board concede on more and more cases recently. Take on board the residential zoned land tax, which is also coming into effect in January next year. If this racketeering continues and we see lands caught up in this scenario, they will be caught...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tillage Sector (26 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...Government is absolutely denigrating the whole agricultural sector. The Minister says he wants tillage and the policy is to improve tillage. He is selling out our dairy herd. They are leasing land at double the price they should be, which is decimating the tillage sector. What part of that does the Minister, as an intelligent man, not understand?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: .... From a climate change perspective, the reality of regulations across the sectors is that we are piling the costs onto dairy farmers at the expense of tillage farmers. We are driving up the cost of land for tillage farmers in order to accommodate dairy farmers vis-à-visthe nitrates directive. It is for good reasons that the largest amount of money ever has been allocated and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Verona Murphy: .... I am glad to have played my part. A young scientist, biochemical engineer or something of that nature from Waterford is doing research in my village of Ramsgrange. A local farmer has given him land to carry out research on carbon capturing. That is a Waterford chap working in County Wexford. We must have the capacity to combine with the Department of the Environment, Climate and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Verona Murphy: As to where it landed in between. From the time it was in almost a contract form – where the last email we have says that the contracts are prepared to be drawn up – is there nothing in between?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...in January. His opening statement is not that much different from what we heard before. All of the same issues remain: interest rates going up, inflation not falling quickly enough, and access to land. All of these issues are outside Mr. Doyle's control and mine. What is in his control is the viability issue. As he outlined in his opening statement, there are ongoing issues with...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...cases of €20 million per acre and upwards. That comes to €6 billion. Should the Department lower the densities to 30 dwellings per hectare and go around the country and purchase development land, in Wexford, for example, at a cost of approximately €200,000 an acre, for €50 million the Department could probably service the required extra. It would take 440...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: .... The 440 acres that would be required to build 6,000 houses would cost somewhere in the region of €250 million - that is a generous estimate - versus €6 billion, if we were to calculate at Savills rates the cost of the land to build the 6,000 apartments in city environments. The witnesses seem to believe, given they referred to it in response to Deputy McAuliffe, that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...enough from the mental aspect, never mind anything else, to deal with the changes that we have had to endure. There are huge costs attached even to circumnavigating the UK to get to the EU. The land bridge is effectively gone because of what it entails in delays in paperwork, traces and all of that, but if we go direct, it is double the cost. Brexit has had a massive impact.

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...development plans or is in the process of doing so. What we have in this country is a one-size-fits-all planning policy, but outside the M50 a high-density planning policy does not suit rural Ireland. That is where our viability issue is. I asked the Secretary General in the Department how much it costs to build a two-bedroom apartment. All we get at minimum densities, which are...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...-Gresham House partnership, particularly on the assertions of ministers McConalogue, Hackett and Ryan that Coillte are needed to reach our 8,000 hectare afforestation targets. ... The reason Ireland are failing to reach afforestation targets is not because Coillte are not participating but because the forest service in the department of Agriculture have literally made it impossible....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...cost of developing sites for modular homes, and national planning policy is to serviced sites. In Wexford, we have put together our county development plan. the proposal is that almost 60% of zoned lands in Wexford would be d. Mr. Doyle spoke earlier about the fact that the Department had hoped the costs would be reduced to help it meet its targets. Does the Secretary General agree?...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Doyle think it is logical to impose a residential land tax on zoned lands which are not being built on because of a viability issue and that, at 3%, depending on the value of the land, the imposition of that tax will reduce the cost of housing? He said earlier we have a viability issue, which means that, clearly, it is not affordable to build the houses, but now it is proposed that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...issue was, as Mr. Doyle said earlier, viability. Logically, then, as the Secretary General looking for an increase of €15,000, Mr. Doyle is telling me that it is correct to impose a tax on such land - we are all saying there is a viability issue - and correct to increase the taxes pertinent to housing development in the middle of the worst housing crisis ever.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: The housing policy, the national planning policy, is to lands. What will that do? It will serve to drive up the site cost of the lands that remain zoned because, as Mr. Doyle just said, supply and demand is the issue. Less land means higher costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: How do we encourage the use of land by de-zoning land that is zoned and, possibly, in some cases, serviced?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Verona Murphy: No. There are two issues. I specifically stated that. One is the residential zoned land tax; the other is the national planning policy to lands. Neither of them makes sense if we are trying to reduce the cost of housing in order to make it viable for commencement of current planning permissions. By the way, going back to Mr. Hogan, I assume that the national guidelines he says are...