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Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m delighted to be with you this morning to open this Third Annual Housing Policy Conference, and I would like to thank the Dublin Economics Workshop and Trinity College’s Policy Institute for the opportunity to do so...

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Alan Kelly T.D. today (14 April 2016) published Laying the Foundations: Housing Actions Report. The document sets out thirty-one actions taken across the housing spectrum to date...

Thank you to everyone for coming. I felt it was important that while we are waiting the conclusion of Government negotiations not to merely wait for these talks to go on, but to see on what matters some form of political understanding may emerge when...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny met with Mike Allen of Focus Ireland on Friday last regarding the homelessness crisis...

Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Alan Kelly TD and Minister of State for Housing & Planning, Paudie Coffey TD have today (2 February, 2016) announced that €56.25 million will be made available in 2016 for Housing Adaptations for Older People and People with a Disability...

Mr. Paudie Coffey TD, Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020 Strategy, announced today (Monday, February 1) that he has appointed Mr. Dennis McCarthy to chair the expert panel that is being established to investigate the problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain dwellings in Donegal and Mayo...

Almost 90% of Irish households will see their waste bills reduced with the introduction of pay-by-weight from July this year Minister Kelly outlined today (1 Feb. 2016)...

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly T.D., and Paudie Coffey TD, Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020 Strategy...

Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020 Strategy, Paudie Coffey TD along with the Mayor of Waterford City and County Council, Councillor John Cummins today (Friday 22 January, 2016) announced the designation of the North Quays of Waterford as a Strategic Development Zone...

Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Alan Kelly TD and Minister for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020, Paudie Coffey TD, today (18th January 2015) announced a new fast tracked process of funding approvals for social housing construction