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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-10/6/
10 Iúil 2018 -
Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018: First Stage
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-10/6/
10 Iúil 2018 -
- “the national affordable cooperative housing exchange” - in which mortgagees and purchasers of home...for the broadening of the Mortgage to Rent mortgage rescue model to be available without any local authority...context of the housing crisis and the mortgage arrears issue in particular....It would also provide for a national affordable housing exchange and a non-compulsory purchase option...The Bill would reconfigure Abhaile as a mortgage resolution agency and would give authority to the not-for-profit
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-10/6/
10 Iúil 2018 -
My answer to all of that is to call on this House to say "No" to vulture funds and to say "Yes" to families...I ask Members to support this Bill. Debate the Bill, amend it and add to it....I invite Members to do what they like to improve it, but please bring it to the House for a full debate...We will not find that answer in the Bills that are hanging around this House....We are repeatedly informed by the banks that the protection for the mortgage holder travels with the
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-10/6/
10 Iúil 2018 -
We can ignore people that are in distress with their mortgage and living with a very poor quality of...We can say that the Bill lacks clarity. We can say that it is not fit for purpose....I am asking every single Member of this Parliament to examine the Bill with a view to bringing it to
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-10/38/
10 Noll 2019 -
The Government's housing policy is a failure....This family cannot afford to save for a mortgage because of rental costs....In 2016, the family's rent was €1,400 per month, which they could just about afford....In 2018, it increased to €1,514, in 2019 it went up to €1,574 and in January 2020, their rent will be...This Sinn Féin Bill, if passed, would ensure that renters are protected from the worry of future rent
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Díospóireacht: Select Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2018-11-08/2/
8 Samh 2018 -
This mortgage interest relief is, therefore, only available on qualifying mortgage loans taken out between...The rate in 2018 is 75% of the rates that applied in 2017, namely, 15%, 20%, 22.5%, 25% and 30%, with...In 2018, the estimated cost of mortgage interest relief is €124 million, reducing to €78 million in 2019...If the 2018 rates and qualifying interest levels continued to apply from 2019, as the Deputy has suggested...that demand side oriented tax incentives that target home buyers are likely to result in increased house
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-09-19/27/
19 MFómh 2018 -
In this sense the Bill aims to nationalise risk....In this way, social and genuinely affordable housing can be delivered....Just a few days ago, property developer Cairn reported its 2018 half-year results....-2019, far above what is affordable for most people....and developed rapidly with genuinely affordable housing.
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-10/6/
10 Iúil 2018 -
The people have turned to us and to this House. Mr....Edmund Honohan and Right2Homes have given us the option to take this Bill on board....Let us move the Bill forward.
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Díospóireacht: Joint Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2021-05-06/2/
6 Beal 2021 -
2018 but as we have moved on to planning and housing matters, I will take the opportunity to engage...They probably had their hearts set on it and were organising mortgages and experiencing that excitement...We should not lose sight of the fact that the Affordable Housing Bill 2021 and the Land Development Agency...Bill 2021, two really important pieces of housing legislation going through the Houses of the Oireachtas...If we do that right, we can bring at-scale, long-term, secure, affordable, good quality housing for rental
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-10/38/
10 Noll 2019 -
The provisions of this Bill are quite similar to those in legislation - the Housing Emergency Measures...those contained in the Bill before the House....or for a mortgage....list and have absolutely no possibility of getting a mortgage....the average price of a house in Tipperary is €183,688.
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-05/39/
5 Iúil 2018 -
Will the Minister of State tell me how many of those young people can afford an affordable house?...We have to work on this Bill....people at the start of their careers who, instead of having to stay with their parents to save for a mortgage..., can afford to buy a house as was traditional before the collapse....Will the Minister of State tell me how they will afford to buy a house?
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-05/38/
5 Iúil 2018 -
Will the Minister of State tell me how many of those young people can afford an affordable house?...We have to work on this Bill....people at the start of their careers who, instead of having to stay with their parents to save for a mortgage..., can afford to buy a house as was traditional before the collapse....Will the Minister of State tell me how they will afford to buy a house?
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Díospóireacht: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-14/11/
14 Samh 2018 -
That is the pot for the provision of social and affordable housing in 2019....There is a strong and growing social housing pipeline in place, as evidenced by the quarter two 2018...On affordable housing, there is a multistrand targeted approach being pursued in the counties most affected...If the Senator had said we were not doing enough quickly enough, that would probably have been more fair..., but we tend to not receive fair criticism when it comes to housing.
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-12-18/32/
18 Noll 2018 -
I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the warm welcome afforded to my son and my wife, Eileen....The Appropriation Bill 2018 is an essential element of financial housekeeping that, as Members are aware...In light of this, the sums appropriated for education in the 2018 Bill represent an increase of approximately...The passing of the Bill will authorise in law all of the expenditure that has been undertaken in 2018...The passage of the Bill will also ensure that payments funded from voted expenditure in 2018 such as
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Díospóireacht: Joint Committee On Housing, Planning And Local Government
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_housing_planning_and_local_government/2019-02-20/3/
20 Feabh 2019 -
2018 and the Anti-Evictions Bill 2018....The Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 goes further to include...recognition of banks and receivers as landlords in the case of repossession of homes subject to buy-to-let mortgages...2018....assistance payment, HAP, as a social housing support.
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-10/38/
10 Noll 2019 -
Our Bill would enforce a three-year rent freeze across the State, and through a rental tax rebate Laois...Alongside this measure, Sinn Féin would double the output of social and affordable housing in 2020....We would kick start the affordable housing purchase scheme to allow workers and their families who cannot...get a mortgage from banks to buy a house - contrary to what Fianna Fáil was trying to say earlier on...Sinn Féin has the solutions to the housing crisis and we are calling on all parties across the House
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-02-14/26/
14 Feabh 2018 -
He introduced a Mortgage Resolution Bill, which is before the Dáil, that will go a long way towards trying...or extending the term of their loan, as has been proposed in the Mortgage Resolution Bill....Fianna Fáil's Mortgage Resolution Bill requires a money message from the Government to proceed....It is a fair Bill that can be a final solution to the mortgage arrears crisis....The State will not have the future cost of providing housing for those thrown out of their homes.
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Díospóireacht: Joint Committee On Housing, Planning And Local Government
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_housing_planning_and_local_government/2019-03-28/2/
28 Márta 2019 -
Chairman Before the witness comes in, I want to clarify that provisions on the income thresholds for affordable...housing are not included in the Bill.
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-05/38/
5 Iúil 2018 -
Deputy Joan Burton To make this Bill fit for purpose with regard to helping the young people of Ireland...in particular to get a personal family home, either to purchase on an affordable basis or to rent, perhaps...via a local authority, we need to change the definition and purposes of the Bill....There is nothing about social or affordable housing....to buy a modest house unless they are living in a part of Ireland with very cheap housing?
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Díospóireacht: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/ga/debates/debate/dail/2018-07-05/39/
5 Iúil 2018 -
Deputy Joan Burton To make this Bill fit for purpose with regard to helping the young people of Ireland...in particular to get a family home, either to purchase on an affordable basis or to rent, perhaps via...a local authority, we need to change the definition and purposes of the Bill....There is nothing about social or affordable housing....to buy a modest house unless they are living in a part of Ireland with very cheap housing?
