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E RE Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh F E A Happy Christmas to all ERI PAP NFIN in the constituency S G H W L E A N S L & Tel 087672 7060 A T C C A O B L R 1 A . O Constituency office: Drogheda Mall, N D E V T O LOCAL Finglas Village (opposite Shamrock) NORTH EDITION 6th December 2018 Phone: 087 252 4064 • Email: [email protected] • www.localnews.ie Stoneybatter l Phibsboro l Cabra l Ashtown l Santry l Finglas l Glnasnevin l Drumconedra l Ballymuwn l Inner City l Tyrrelsts own l Corduff l Mulhuddart l Blanchardstown l Ongar l Tyrrellstown l Clonsilla Only private homes for Coultry site SPECIAL TO LOCAL NEWS by Paul Kelly Happy Christmas WELL OVER 1200 people — 300 families — on the housing list will lose a chance at future Christmas-at-home cheer as another valuable tract of public land is to go to private develop - ers. The site in question is at Coultry (west of the main Bally - mun Road), present home of House Painting Glór na nGael crèche and the internal & Muck and Magic gardening co- operative. external The private-developer plan, just revealed by Dublin City special rates for Housing boss Brendan Kenny, is FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL CONGRATULATES CORDUFF senior Citizens understood to have the ap - proval of Housing Minister AND BALDOYLE - ON PRIDE OF PLACE AWARDS all areas covered Eoghan Murphy. Corduff residents and supporters from Fingal County Council celebrate winning the Urban There was widespread shock Neighbourhoods category at the 2018 Pride of Place awards held in Cork City Hall and outrage on the southside when a similar plan, for around has blocked access to cash for ter Murphy refused to sign off lymun plan, the Council’s a thousand units in the Kilbar - Seasons Greetings schemes he doesn’t like on a tiny social housing Brendan Kenny told local TD bery/The Grange site near through his control of the scheme put forward by Fingal Dessie Ellis (SF, Dublin NW) Lucan, also went private: see Housing Finance Agency. In County Council. The Minister that, while cash from tenants Kilcarbery go ahead for private many cases covered by Local protested that the plans were of the 300 units would go to homes on public lands, Local News in the last three years, (a) informal and (b) did not the developer, families would News West , October 19 2018. this means blocking social give numbers for the re - be able to move into the housing — while at the same quested social housing mix. houses and apartments at PURSE STRINGS time issuing public state - Local News , in our North “cost rental”. ments promising more and edition of September 13, “Cost rental” is a subtly but While, nominally, the fi - more of it. Waine calls Murphy’s bluff on suspiciously unfamiliar term. nance and social housing This has been true of all Mulhuddart, exposed the fact “Affordable rental” is more arrangements for Coultry, Kil - schemes proposed by all local that, according to documents commonly used to indicate a carbery, Mulhuddart and other authorities in the capital: possessed by Cllr Matt Waine big concession on rent. It usu - public lands is in the hands of Dublin City Council, South (Solidarity, Mulhuddart), ally means a state-subsidised the relevant Council, Minister Dublin County Council and these objections were at best discount of some 20 to 30 per Murphy holds the purse strings. even tiny Fingal. irrelevant and at worst false. cent off market rates. He can, and frequently has, Indeed just recently Minis - Defending the Coultry Bal - continued on page 2 NO MORE TV BILLS EVER PRE-CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ful€ly 2ins5ta0ll ed IRISH COMPANY EXCELLENT AFTERCARE SERVICE Happy Christmas y Happ mas Christ Tel: 083 3133133 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS continued from page 1 Generally, these families would have an income of be - tween €30,000 and €50,000 per year. The words “cost rental”, however, raises the spectre of the developer pro - nouncing the monthly rental to be “at cost” — irrespec - tive of whether or not it is in any ordinary or accepted sense af - fordable. And there are to be MULHUDDART NIXED BY MINISTER: our September 13 story showed how hard it no social housing was to get government go-ahead for even a modest social housing scheme units whatsoever in the 300-unit Coultry estate. UNHAPPY CROSSED OUT: our diagram, again from our West edition of October 19, shows how Coultry, unlike Kilcarbery, Deputy Ellis says offers not even a token quota of social-and-affordable. There are other worries, too, including the ethos and he is in no way as - control of the 300-unit, all-private estate sured by the Council’s Affordable rental homes are aimed at middle”: too well-off List but too poor to “cost rental” prom - (and affordable sale) those in the “squeezed to make the Housing get a mortgage. ises. He told Local News that he is un - happy on other grounds too: • Entire control of the Coultry estate will be taken away from SOUTHSIDE SOLD BY MINISTER: again the Housing Minister did his best to block the Council — which Sinn Féin plans for southside social housing (Local News West, October 19) — but currently owns the at least the Kilcarbery scheme, as we reported, made a nominal concession to so - land — and handed cial housing over to the developer. Kenny,” Deputy Ellis councillors such as cient votes in the • There will be told Local News . Danny O’Brien none of the “charter” chamber to defeat the “But so far, I’m not (Lucan) and arrangements of the sale of land for Mr reassured and I’m not Madeleine Johnans - kind drawn up by Kenny’s all-private happy.” son (PBPA, Clon - better co-ops such as plan. Saying or dalkin), who had Clúid Housing. These Yea Nay The Kilcarbery pushed for a largely- enforce certain disci - to the sale of public scheme, offered a land to private devel - social scheme. plines on tenant and mere 30 per cent so - opers is one of the few Deputy Ellis hopes landlord alike, e.g., no cial-and-affordable remaining powers that the vote here antisocial behaviour; units and was allowed that individual coun - does not go the same new roofs every 10 to proceed. Chiropody Card Holders Welcome years. cillors still possess. way: Ellis is confident that “I’m very much in Here, in Ballymun, • It will displace the percentage plum - the Muck and Magic his Sinn Féin col - favour of the Coultry mets from 30 per cent gardening project; leagues in Dublin City development, assum - to zero. and a nearby Irish Council will use it to ing we can do some - language crèche, Glór nix Mr Kenny’s thing to re-house the Yet, Deputy Ellis na Gael. scheme in its present, Muck and Magic and fears, with Fine Gael • The likely rent all-private form. Glór na Gael proj - and even perhaps will be €1000 per On the other hand, ects,” he said. some Fianna Fáil sup - month and more. the Kilcarbery/The “But it has to be a port, Minister Mur - Seasons Greetings to all our Customers That last point Grange giveaway on proper social housing phy’s anti-social particularly angers the southside was, scheme — with some housing agenda, fur - the local Sinn Féin against many predic - units set aside for af - thered by his ap - fordable sale or af - deputy: tions, voted through pointees in Council with unexpected Fi - fordable rental. The “You’d need to be management, may anna Fáil support all-private scheme earning €60,000 or once again win from councillors such that we’re faced with €70,000 to afford one through. of these houses!” as Trevor Gilligan (FF, at the moment is out - As things stand, He says he will Clondalkin) — though rageous.” yet another large tract continue to discuss Gilligan did express the matter with the reservations about 30 PER CENT TO ZERO of publicly-owned Council: the low social-and-af - land is set to be given “I want to go over fordable numbers. Local News has over to the private the details with The result was been unable to find sector — with not a [Council housing shock and dismay out whether or not single social housing 01 - 556 3662 boss] Brendan amongst Sinn Féin there would be suffi - unit to show for it. 6 McKee Avenue, Finglas Village. Tel: 01 834 6434 Our Salon is on 2 Floors, catering for your comfort Hair & Make Up Hair Extensions Specialists M.U.A. 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    DÁIL ÉIREANN AN COMHCHOISTE UM NITHE A BHAINEANN LE MÍCHUMAS JOINT COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY MATTERS Dé Céadaoin, 4 Samhain 2020 Wednesday, 4 November 2020 Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 4.30 p.m. The Joint Committee met at 4.30 p.m. Comhaltaí a bhí i láthair / Members present: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Seanadóirí / Senators Holly Cairns, Ivana Bacik, Seán Canney, Alice-Mary Higgins, Neasa Hourigan, Erin McGreehan, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, Fiona O’Loughlin, Pauline Tully, Mary Seery Kearney. Violet-Anne Wynne. Teachta / Deputy Michael Moynihan sa Chathaoir / in the Chair. 1 JDM National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion Chairman: I welcome members, and I welcome viewers who are watching proceedings on Oireachtas TV, to the second public session of the newly formed Joint Committee on Disability Matters. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the progress on the national disability inclu- sion strategy and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to the Minister for Children, Equal- ity, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O’Gorman, and the Minister of State with respon- sibility for disability, Deputy Rabbitte. Witnesses are directed that only evidence connected with the subject matter of these pro- ceedings is to be given. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.
  • 9 February 2021 Public

    9 February 2021 Public

    DÁIL ÉIREANN AN ROGHCHOISTE UM FHORMHAOIRSIÚ BUISÉID COMMITTEE ON BUDGETARY OVERSIGHT Dé Máirt, 9 Feabhra 2021 Tuesday, 9 February 2021 Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 4 p.m. The Select Committee met at 4 p.m. Comhaltaí a bhí i láthair / Members present: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Seán Canney, Ciarán Cannon, Pearse Doherty, Bernard J. Durkan, Mairéad Farrell, John Lahart, Aindrias Moynihan, Patricia Ryan. Teachta / Deputy Neasa Hourigan sa Chathaoir / in the Chair. 1 SBO Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discus- sion Chairman: I have not received any apologies. Today we are joined by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Mi- chael McGrath. They are welcome. I thank them very much for joining us this afternoon. The Minister, Deputy McGrath, is accompanied by officials from the Department of Public Expen- diture and Reform, including Ms Caroline O’Loughlin, assistant principal for performance bud- geting, Mr. John Kinnane, principal officer, central expenditure policy and reporting division. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is accompanied by officials from the Department of Finance, including, Mr. Niall Cassidy, principal officer in the economics section and Ms Anne-Marie Walsh, principal officer in the tax section. Today we will discuss the committee’s interim report on the framework for parliamentary engagement throughout the budgetary cycle, the potential for enhanced parliamentary engage- ment, and the capacity of the Executive to support an enhanced framework. This is the com- mittee’s final engagement before it publishes its final report. Before we begin I wish to explain to the witnesses some limitations to parliamentary privi- lege and the practice of the Houses as regards reference they may make to other persons in their evidence.