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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

...the scale of change wrought across the banking sector by those events. As a completely restructured bank, we now operate in a dramatically different regulatory environment with the Central Bank of Ireland and the European Central Bank focusing in great detail on all aspects of our activity through a customer, conduct, prudential and policy lens. Within that tight regulatory framework and...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: ...of spin. We need to consider those couples who have been forced out to work for low wages. This is where we should be focusing our budgets going forward. These couples do not have enough income to get bank loans but are earning too much to get council loans. We kept calling for a solution to this and eventually we got it in the form of a mighty announcement about a new loan scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...scheme was stood down because there was no affordability issue in the country at that time. We exited the bailout in 2014. In 2016, the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government put in place Rebuilding Ireland, a dedicated Ministry and, for the first time, ring-fenced funding to restore the housing sector but in such a way that we would not repeat the mistakes of the past. As part of this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (20 Jun 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...cost of housing accommodation across the country. It is important to note that the limits introduced at that time also reflected a blanket increase of €5,000 introduced prior to the new system coming into operation, in order to broaden the base from which social housing tenants are drawn, both promoting sustainable communities and also providing a degree of future-proofing. ...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Collins: ...to have the opportunity to speak on housing. I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for bringing forward this motion. We need immediate action to tackle this problem. The majority of those becoming homeless are in the private rental sector. I refer to huge numbers of my constituents from Bandon, Kilbrittain, Ballinspittle, Ballinadee, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Leap and Goleen. The list...

Topical Issue Debate: Home Loan Scheme (13 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am raising the issue of the Rebuilding Ireland home loans scheme. As people are aware, it is a mortgage scheme for first-time buyers backed by the Government. It is now available through all local authorities. A first-time buyer can apply for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan to purchase a new or second-hand property or to build his or her own home. Up to 90% of the market value of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for the opportunity to appear again before the committee, this time to give them an update on the progress made in terms of implementation of Rebuilding Ireland in the first quarter of this year. I am joined this afternoon by Mr. John McCarthy, the Secretary General of the Department, and assistant secretaries Ms Mary Hurley and Mr. David...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Séamus Healy: ...did not believe that we would have 10,000 people homeless or people dying on our streets. That is what has happened, though. That is what putting one's faith in privatisation means, namely, ordinary families coming off the worst. What could be worse than being homeless or dying on the street? Of the 10,000 people homeless, 3,500 are children. Approximately 100,000 people are on local...

Tillage Sector: Motion (26 Apr 2018)

Andrew Doyle: I very much welcome this report and commend the committee members on their effort and contribution. This is a very timely debate on a very important sector and we should carefully consider this report. The overall thrust of the report is very much aligned with the tillage actions outlined in Food Wise 2025, the industry blueprint for the development of the whole agrifood sector. The tillage...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (25 Apr 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Eoghan Murphy: ...the House for this important opportunity to update Members on housing and related matters. In view of the time available, I will not address every single issue in housing but I look forward to coming back to any questions Members have. The top-line figures for house building are going in the right direction. Planning permissions for 20,776 homes were granted to the end December 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Apr 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...is a major issue for some households, especially in areas such as Dublin, Cork and Galway, several important initiatives have already been implemented to stimulate housing supply at more affordable prices and rents. Rebuilding Ireland has prioritised supporting the supply of new and more affordable homes more generally through, inter alia, fast-track planning...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

John Paul Phelan: ...is happening. That is due in no small part to our partner organisations which are funded through taxpayers' money, including groups such as the Peter McVerry Trust, The Simon Community and Focus Ireland. These groups work closely with the staff of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. The underlying challenges remain - to build more homes and to do it at an...

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...exited homelessness. As such, a huge amount is happening and it is thanks to our partner organisations whom we fund through taxpayers' money, including the Peter McVerry Trust, Simon and Focus Ireland, working with our own teams. However, the underlying challenge remains, namely, to build more homes and to do so at affordable prices and rental levels. The Government is absolutely...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...a range of other issues, such as State protocol, including commemorations, constitutional issues, relations with the office of the President, relations with the Oireachtas, Government press and communications, the National Economic and Social Council, the Creative Ireland programme, the Citizens' Assembly and the Dublin north-east inner city initiative. The Department funds a number of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: It is difficult for me to speak to individual cases. If the Deputy wishes to give me the details of the case to which he refers, I will look into it. Under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan, people who have separated and come from former relationships are entitled to access that home loan scheme. This is the first tranche, related to the €200 million fund. We are reviewing the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As announced in my Budget speech on 10 October 2017, Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) is to be established to provide funding on market terms to viable residential development projects whose owners are experiencing difficulty in obtaining debt funding.  Up to €750 million of ISIF funds will be allocated to HBFI to provide funding on market terms and the fund is estimated to...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...instance on Sunday in an article in The Sunday Business Post that shocked even me, and it takes a fair bit to shock me, concerning Richard Barrett, a developer, formerly of Treasury Holdings, whose loans the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, had to buy out for €1 billion with public money. He is now boasting that he will be the biggest provider of social housing outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Mar 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: ...basic needs, plus a comparative analysis of the local rental cost of housing accommodation across the country. The limits also reflect a blanket increase of €5,000 introduced prior to the new system coming into operation, in order to broaden the base from which social housing tenants are drawn and thereby promote sustainable communities. Under the Household Means Policy, which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (8 Mar 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Supporting the availability of working capital for SMEs is a significant element of Government policy in our efforts to rebuild the economy and bring back jobs.  Government is focused on ensuring that all viable SMEs have access to an appropriate supply of credit from a diverse range of bank and non-bank sources.  In this regard the Government has developed a number of initiatives...

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

David Stanton: ...lowest incomes and in need of social housing. As such, the Government was right to put a major emphasis on this area first. More broadly, measures to get housing construction moving again under Rebuilding Ireland are starting to work. As housing supply increases, the entire Oireachtas can agree that ensuring access and affordability is an absolute priority for housing into the future....