Written answers

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Department of Finance

Ministerial Meetings

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he had any meetings with private or third party investors that have proposals to invest in social or affordable housing; the date of the meetings; and the details of the proposals discussed. [6173/17]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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In an effort to provide the Deputy with a thorough reply, this question has been considered more widely than just meetings which I attended, to also include those meetings attended by officials from my Department.

Every effort has been made to identify meetings relevant to the Deputy's question, and the timeframe used as the basis for identifying these meetings is 1 March 2016 to 31 January 2017.

Please see the below list retrieved from our records of identified relevant meetings that occurred during the aforementioned timeframe. The Deputy should note that the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 requires firms to record all lobbying approaches made by them to Government Departments and Agencies and may provide details of approaches by firms which were not recorded by sections within the Department.

DateDepartment AttendeesStakeholderPurpose
07/04/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitIrish League of Credit UnionsA Proposal for Irish credit unions to fund the provision of social housing
08/04/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitCredit Union Development Association (CUDA)Review of progress of CUDA Social Housing Finance Initiative
13/04/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitIrish League of Credit UnionsA Proposal for Irish credit unions to fund the provision of social housing
29/06/2016Officials from Banking Division.Allsop IrelandPresentation on social/affordable housing proposal.
11/08/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitWK Nowlan Real Estate AdvisorsDiscussions re social and affordable housing
05/09/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitWK Nowlan Real Estate AdvisorsDiscussions re. social and affordable housing
28/09/2016Minister. Officials from Shareholder Management UnitCairn HomesDiscussion on measures to promote affordable house building
18/10/2016Minister of State Officials from Banking Division.Cairn HomesDiscussion on measures to promote affordable house building
01/12/2016Officials from Shareholder Management UnitWK Nowlan Real Estate AdvisorsDiscussions re. social and affordable housing
Throughout 2016During 2016 officials from the Shareholder Management Unit met an entity called Arizun to hear their ideas around leasing units to LA's for social housing purposesARIZUNDiscussions re. social and affordable housing

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