Results 141-160 of 431 for rebuilding ireland come loan

Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (16 Jul 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...urgent matter, as we outlined in the briefing provided to the Seanad, and we are seeking to expedite the enactment of this Bill. This is the first piece of legislation the Department of Finance has come forward with since the Government has been formed. The main source of urgency is attached to the supports to mitigate unemployment risk in the emergency instrument, known as the SURE...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...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. Given...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Jack Chambers: ...for Government for a jobs-led recovery. This will help families and households where jobs have been lost to return to work and ensure businesses that have weathered the Covid-19 storm can now grow and rebuild. The July stimulus package will be unveiled shortly and will place the SME sector, which is the backbone of our economy and is central to our recovery, at its core. There will be a...

Rent and Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Peter Burke: ...threatened eviction, to contact it via its webchat service, although there may be delays with its phone lines during this emergency period. With regard to debt generally, the Insolvency Service of Ireland, ISI, provides a debt resolution service. The ISI was established in 2013 to deal with personal insolvency and is under the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality. The ISI aims...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...in life by being able to access affordable housing. It is an issue I certainly will take seriously. The Government is keenly aware of the housing affordability challenges facing people across Ireland. It is only by taking measures all aspects of our housing system, including housing for purchase or rent and whether delivered privately or publicly, that we can begin to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Data (9 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...to address the challenges posed by COVID-19, the Government has put in place a comprehensive suite of supports for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, grants, low-cost loans, write-off of commercial rates and deferred tax liabilities. These supports are designed to build confidence, to further assist businesses in terms of the management of their companies and to...

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Simon Coveney: ...one of the topics for discussion in the programme for Government talks, Deputy Matthews will be glad to hear. On the question of ISIF and the role it plays in investing strategically to help to rebuild our economy in a post-Covid-19 environment, we are already using ISIF to make funding available for strategic investment in businesses. The Ministers for Enterprise, Trade and Employment...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...- to give the SME sector, which is crucially important to this country, a chance to breathe. Have financial projections been carried out within the Department on potential lost revenue over those coming weeks? The Minister of State mentioned a figure of €260 million in that period. In that context, has the Minister or the Minister of State discussed a local authority recovery...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: ...that renters in Dublin and other major urban centres are facing significant housing access and affordability challenges, the Government is committed to the establishment of a cost rental sector in Ireland. Cost rental is housing where rents only cover the cost of delivering, managing, and maintaining the homes. Cost rental lacks the profit margin involved in the private rental sector and...

Covid-19 (Finance): Statements (20 May 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: .... Given the distress that many businesses now face and the increase in savings by individuals, the Green Party believes the co-operative business model could and should provide a core part of rebuilding efforts after Covid-19. This model of community-based economic organisation ensures that our business community is guided by the principles of economic democracy and that such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland to support the delivery of discounted homes to buy or rent, the Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021. This funding will provide for infrastructure to support the delivery of some 6,200 more affordable homes on local authority lands. SSF has been made available to local...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020) See 4 other results from this debate

Eoghan Murphy: ...of emergency accommodation, we brought in a new quality standards framework last summer, which was put together with the NGOs and local authorities and rolled out across Dublin. It is now to become the national standard. What we have seen in this crisis, because we have decongregated heavily congregated settings, is outcomes for individuals in those new settings that are far superior to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...market and not a political community. The Labour Party's view, however, is that the EU can be successful only if it is built on solidarity and mutual assistance among its member states. We welcome the EU's decision to use €540 billion from the ESM to assist member states without many of the onerous rules that usually come with its loans. We particularly welcome the recent...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: ...shown by the overwhelming majority of Irish people towards their own families, friends and neighbours, but also towards strangers and the broader community as a whole, over recent weeks. I welcome this opportunity to present the stability programme update to the House today. This is to allow Dáil Éireann an opportunity to debate the document before the Government formally...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...this Bill but there are certain measures I wholeheartedly support. I commend the civil servants across the island for their hard work and for the long hours spent away from precious family time to come into work and make sure these Bills go through. While we have seen our soldiers out building mobile test centres in collaboration with our communities and GAA clubs, I am concerned that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitments in Rebuilding Ireland, this Government has allocated €310 million under the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF) over the period 2019 to 2021 to provide infrastructure to support the delivery of more affordable homes on local authority lands.  A maximum SSF funding amount of €50,000 is available per home. This sum comprises  €44,500 (or 89%)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019) See 3 other results from this debate

Eoghan Murphy: ...to build on the significant progress made between 2016 and 2018 in terms of supporting new households into homes. As of the third quarter of 2019, more than 90,000 additional households across Ireland have received social housing support under Rebuilding Ireland. Looking at this in another way, when we set out with the plan, there were 92,000 households on local authority waiting lists....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Dec 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Eoghan Murphy: ...this are in place now, it took some time for them to be constructed. We have a number of people working on the different types of finance available and how it might be structured into longer-term loans. These are the National Development Finance Agency, the European Investment Bank and some private consultants for some of the individual sites. I have no doubt that as we continue to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

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. Given...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: ...that renters in Dublin and other major urban centres are facing significant housing access and affordability challenges, the Government is committed to the introduction of a Cost Rental sector in Ireland. Cost Rental relates to housing where the rents charged cover the cost of delivering, managing, and maintaining the homes only as opposed to private sector rentals where rents are set by...