Results 181-200 of 1,043,893 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Heather Humphreys) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It cannot be used on this scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: They cannot use it on this scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: They can then get €30,000 in terms of the help to buy scheme-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. They cannot use the first home scheme on these developments. That is factually incorrect. He does not even know what scheme he is talking about.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----so they are looking at a much-reduced price in respect of what is being presented by the Deputy. They are the first houses to come on stream on that particular scheme. There is 40% social and 40% cost rental. The cost-rental homes are 25% below market value. That site was left vacant for decades. It was a scandal that site was left vacant, in my view-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Martin Kenny: Who did that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Tánaiste was in government at the time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----because of ideologically driven policies by Sinn Féin and others, objecting serially all of the time. My point is that Sinn Féin's equity scheme, for example, is interesting. Home ownership matters and we believe in home ownership. We did not believe the site should be 100% social homes, which Sinn Féin did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: One hundred per cent affordable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: We do not believe in 100% social schemes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: One hundred per cent affordable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy Ó Broin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: We believe there should be a balance and we believe home ownership matters. In many respects through Sinn Féin's schemes - given the cap of €80,000 on its shared equity scheme, for example - one could never own a house if they were a garda married to a nurse or whatever. That is a fact.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin would put a cap of €80,000 on it and get rid of the shared equity scheme and the first home scheme. That is the bottom line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: But we would deliver affordable homes, which is something the Government is not doing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Well, the answer is that the Government is living in a parallel universe-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----and the Tánaiste actually does not know the Government's own housing policy. He stood there and tried to justify this. I understand his dilemma because I asked him a simple question, which was whether he believes the houses the Government is delivering on Oscar Traynor Road, at an entry price of €400,000 for a three-bedroom house and going up to €475,000, are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is affordability.