Results 521-540 of 1,104,776 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Ivana Bacik OR speaker:Aindrias Moynihan OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Leo Varadkar OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Michael Creed OR speaker:Cathal Crowe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: When the LDA is buying from another State body, semi-State companies are included in the LDA reports. Those companies might include CIÉ, Bord na Móna, the Electricity Supply Board or whatever else. When the LDA is buying from such a company, am I correct that the company has to charge the market price?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is existing use value.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: If it is, for example, a parking lot for Bus Éireann buses, the assessed value would be the value to the company. It would not be the price for housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: From reading the information supplied before the meeting and other information that is available, I understand that the LDA has to provide a minimum of 40% of cost rental or affordable purchase properties in any development it goes into. In other words, there has to be 40% developed under those two models. Is it correct that 60% can be sold off by a private developer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that black and white? Can it change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is okay. Outside of Cork and Dublin, for example, what of Limerick?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is 70%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: In anything you have delivered to date, there has been no-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: All those ones in the pipeline will be 100% cost rental or affordable to purchase.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, yes. Okay. Is it anticipated that this will cool the housing market, for want of a better term, and that, particularly in these high-cost area, it has a cooling effect because if there are homes being provided at a moderate price, and more stable one, the option of cost rental obviously reduces demand out in the wild west or the open market?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: The theory is good but my only concern is with how it is working in practice. I take on board what Mr. Coleman is saying in relation to some factors he does not have control over but the overall cost per home is still coming in at, there or thereabouts, what it is on the open market. For the apartments in Dún Laoghaire, for example, one is looking at up to nearly half a million euro....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I have raised standardised designs with the Secretary General of the Department every time he has come in over the past four years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: The people in Citywest will not mind if their apartments look like the ones in Kingstown.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: No, but generally.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know the background. Of course, not. The point I am making is that this thing that you have to start with a completely blank sheet every time has been raised here repeatedly by me. Mass production is cheaper, if you want to try to change every plan. I have not figured out the reason, with every school project, you start from scratch. I have not worked out why that is. Most of them, at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Have you taken on any projects where a development has got so far and for whatever reason, maybe difficulty financing the next stage, they have the concrete poured but maybe the roof is not on or the internal works or the first or second fixes are not done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Have you got involved in any?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Where is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is all right.