This Is Our Ireland
This Is Our Ireland
This Is Our Ireland
AXIS THEATRE
Dec 18, 2016
Ever the alchemist Dean Scurry got Damien Dempsey,
John Connors Maverick Sabre and me to work with a group
of remarkable young men at The Axis Theatre in Ballymun.
That led to months of ongoing conversations about the
nature of our nation and the political paralysis of our
people. Larger meetings with leaders of the arts were
sometimes wonderful but often just exercises in
frustration. Invariably it would end up with me, Dean, John
and Damo being perceived as too extreme in our
insistence that whatever was to be done, it had to be on a
grand scale. It would have to be something beneficial to
our most vulnerable. But it would also have to be
something that might awaken our national dormant spirit.
It was an absurd ambition. A fantasy. An impossibility.
Months later, the call came through. "It's happening."
That's all Dean said. "And we need you to write the
words." This remarkable man had been working
relentlessly with the equally remarkable Brendan Ogle and
they had set in motion a philosophical, humanistic and,
most importantly, pragmatic plan to protect our most
vulnerable and inspire our collective spirit. I went to a bar
and tried to write. Nothing came out. I called Dean and
asked who am I writing for? Who do you want, is what he
said? I wanted the most famous working class Dublin artist
there has ever been, Jim Sheridan. Dean said, I'm on it.
I ordered another drink but the words wouldn't come. All
the standard bullshit that goes with fear and doubt and
ego and vanity and hubris and judgement was kicking in
but then the simple realisation hit. This is not about fear.
This is about strength. Just tell the truth. The words came.
Called Dean. Quietly read them over the phone as the full
bar was singing Christmas songs. He listened then
whispered, "Shivers, brother, shivers."
Next day it was happening. We met at the Unite Office. A
stunning group of people. Hours of discussions and
decisions. Then the words came up. Curtis 'Fifty Cent'
Jackson has been shot twice but he said the only man he's
ever been sacred of is Jim Sheridan. That's how tough
Sheridan is. He is also a beautiful, courageous humanist
and a hero to many. Including me. Some folk fought for the
words, others didn't. The final decision was to keep it
much simpler. When Sheridan opens his mouth people
listen anyway. He doesn't need a hack. The words were in
the bin but the magic was happening. We walked to the
GPO and Jim and Damo and Glen Hansard captured the
mood better than any hack. That night the NAMA building
was taken and something magical was born.
Then last night I get another call from Dean. There's a
comedy gig in the Axis Theatre, where we started this
conversation all that time ago, and Dean wants me to read
the words to the audience. A comedy audience? Only he
could think it was a good idea. Only he could make me put
the fear aside and do it. Only he could know it would
inspire a standing ovation. This is our Ireland.
Every single person alive has to watch this video
This is our Ireland... Ireland is made up of a proud and
protective people. We use our strength to protect our most
vulnerable... This is our Ireland: not the government's, not
the banks, not the corporations, not the scum in threepiece suits... This is our Ireland. And it belongs to the
dreamers, the fighters, the explorers, the deeply rooted,
the traveller, and the recently arrived; the pink-skinned,
the brown-skinned, and every-in-between-skinned; the old,
the young, the straights, the LGBT, and the sitting-on-thefencers.
"Ireland belongs to the musicians, the poets, the artists,
and to their audience; the vulnerable, the special needs,
the carers: to the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, and
brothers who wake up every morning and somehow find
the strength to fight for a better future...
"And, finally, we ask ourselves, 'When, exactly, did we
allow a tiny coterie of controlling-class scum make us
forget what a fecking sublime nation we are?'
~Irish homeless advocate Tim McMahon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYyvMfkU2g&feature=youtu.be
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Court's Rejection of Her Challenge. but in a Unanimous
Judgment, Six Supreme Court Judges Dismissed Her
Appeal.
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Dec 15th 2016 Citizens' intervention in Dublin, with artists
and activists taking over NAMA property to house
homeless.
Housing crisis deliberate By FG, FF, LB
The truly tragic thing is that RTE would never have this
story on the Late Late, let alone any news station if it were
not for the famous names.
If it were just the people, they might be battered by the
authorities by now and RTE out in force with yet another
"sinister fringe" report...
We are involved in an act of civil disobedience, Glen
Hansard tells The #LateLate Show as he talks about
#HomeSweetHome and #OccupyNama
Most beautiful song ever I love his voice and his absolute
passion for doing the right thing. You're so right Glen this
is an emergency we forget that. We've become
desensitised to the horrors of what people have to exist in.
Simon Coveney said in the Dail that issues surrounding
homelessness are too complex to just allow people to
'stay' in a NAMA building well then Simon u took the job on
fix it, dear Simon FIX IT and stop talking about it.
They should set up a text a donation site ! I'm sure
everyone would donate !!! great guy
Home sweet home brilliant movement.
Well done to you all me an my great colleagues are
outside the Gpo every Tuesday night from 8/10 if we have
any left over food An clothes would your group accept
them be more than welcome to them an also wiling to
help out
Glen well done tonight and continued strength. Don't give
up. True Irish people will get behind you all. You are not
breaking any laws use your words right. It's not what you
say but how you say it. Listen to anyone in Dail Eireann,
how they are coaxed into using their words very carefully.
That building belongs to the Irish People.
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but between the Royal Canal and the Grand Canal there
are 260 people tonight homeless.
What we would like to do is bridge the gap Well be
asking people to volunteer, well be asking people to get
behind the idea. It is a radical idea.
Tubridy.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/ourview/nohomes-for-2470-of-our-children--un-report-shames-ourcountry-434751.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan
d/free-childcare-for-families-affectedby-homelessness-435551.html
Patsy McGarry
Irelands crowded Charity Sector
The Revenue Commissioners recognise 8,194 non-profit
organisations as charities for tax-relief purposes and, to date,
12,500 are registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority. Is
Ireland's charity sector over-crowded?
Tax relief
Overall, there are 18,539 non-profit organisations in
Ireland, including non-government, non-commercial
organisations that file regulatory returns with the
Companies Office, the Charities Regulator, the
Revenue Commissioners, the Housing Agency and/or
the Department of Education.
I am showing the FACTS that needed showing and the money that is
given to these charities with little return is a concern in these harsh
times. The Government are not going to ever provide the housing
you speak of so while people are freezing their butts off in the
street, those wages are still being paid. It's about time these
charities worked within the realms of reality. The charities are
spending nearly every cent they get from the government on
wages. They are not spending the money as it was intended. The
State gave these eight charities money for the homeless. Not for
pay scales for an entity that isn't in the public sector under a
government department...
There are far too many charities "claiming" to help people while
enriching the ceo's etc. Any money I can give to homeless people I
do directly i.e. I hand to the person on the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Ujy_tv0IM
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enormous disquiet.
"In 2009, Fianna Fil passed legislation claiming to regulate the
charities sector but never implemented it.
"In February 2012, my colleague Padrig Mac Lochlainn TD
asked Minister Shatter why the Act was not being
implemented.
"In his reply Minister Shatter said: 'It was not practicable to
proceed with the full implementation of the Act at this time
given the financial and staffing resources that would have been
required, hence the implementation of the Act has been
deferred.
"His reply further claimed that 'it is not the fact that the
charities in Ireland are devoid of oversight.'
The Sinn Fin Leader asked the Taoiseach to support Sinn
Fein's Bill to implement all provisions of the Charities Act 2009.
He also asked if the Taoiseach agreed with him that the refusal
thus far by the CEO at Rehab to declare her salary and the
general lack of transparency about remuneration, where it
exists, needed to be addressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4HDdqoQ6Oo
http://www.threshold.ie/
/threshold_signed_accounts_2015_cr
Don't like others showing up the absurdity of the situation.
And quite a cozy one it seems to be too...
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/frmcverry-i-applaud-apollo-house-sit-in-but-its-not-the-solution-tohomelessness-768980.html
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OF SECTIONS. Section. 1. ... Privy Seal of ireland.
Forgery of the following documents, if committed
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027_en.pdf
UK & Ireland Charity Committee Donation Request Form
Thank you for your interest in AES UK & Irelands Charity
Committee. Charitable organisations
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Enough is enough. This NAMA made homelessness scam
has to end. It's not good enough to make the Irish People
suffer so that property prices remain at above Celtic Tiger
levels so NAMA can sell them to vulture funds.
It has got to stop. People are dying because of this
deliberate government policy...
https://apps.charitycommissionni.org.
uk/Library/pdf_documents/ccniannual-report-2009-2010.pdf
Why We Occupy
https://www.scribd.com/document/334725445/IrishHomeless-Street-League-Charity-Said-That-HomelessPeople-in-Ireland-Are-Basically-Refugees-in-Their-OwnLand
homes now.
We have had many commemorations of 1916
this year. But this setting up of homeless
accommodation in a vacant NAMA building is
actually the most truly genuine commemorative
act in this centenary year.
They are fulfilling the Republic of equality
envisioned in the Proclamation. There is light at
the end of this austerity tunnel of inequality and
they are providing it.
Uplift and Home Sweet Home ask you to sign
their petition here: The time for broken
promises is over. Take action today to support
the powerful action by the
#HomeSweetHomecampaign.
Dr Rory Hearne is a policy analyst, academc,
social justice campaigner. He writes here in a
personal capacity. Follow Rory on
Twitter: @roryhearne
This morning.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams (right) and
Sinn Fein Dublin City Councillor Chris Andrews
join Dean Scurry , from Home Sweet Home, to
lend their support to the occupation at Apollo
House.
This is a practical but mostly symbolic act to
focus attention on the issue and shame the
government into meaningful action, well done
to all involved.
Well done in your fight against the thatcherite
fascists in government.
Apollo House is central, functional and safe.
Theres toilets and running water, kitchenettes
and enough offices for privacy. Well done to
Home Sweet Home for this initiative.
RTE have listed this under their Entertainment
section. Im speechless
http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016/1216/839
329-christy-moore-and-hozier-among-starsbacking-homeless/
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Mary Carolan
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year meant the appeal, which opened before a sevenjudge court, finished last April before a six-judge court
with judgment reserved.
Her lawyers argued a statutory power to charge the
central fund is unconstitutional unless that charge is
prequantified or there is an outer limit on it.
It is unconstitutional for the Minister to charge a
public fund under statute unless the imposition of the
charge has been considered in advance by the Dil,
they also argued.
Her counsel John Rogers SC said Ms Collins, as a
citizen and TD, had a right to have the democratic
process adhered to when the Minister decided to
provide the promissory notes.
Relinquished control
Maybe she should take her case to the European Court of Justice?
After all, it's not permissible for a government to step in and offer
financial support to an ailing company no matter what their status
is. A number of leading European airlines went bust in the early
2000's which would have previously survived because of state
interventions. Why was an exception made to bail out a broken
bank?? The EU is as corrupt as our own lot in Dail Eireann...
New world order Rothschild banks get their way with the freemason
judges says it all..
Debt till death debt grip for the poor.. billions for the rich bankers!
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Mazars said the campaigners were trespassing and asked
them to leave with immediate effect. In the
circumstances we have no option but to refer the matter
to our legal advisers to pursue the appropriate course of
action, they said.
The Irish Housing Network and the Home Sweet Home
campaign said they had no plans to leave and were last
night seeking volunteers with first aid training, CPR skills
or experience working in homeless or community services
to get in touch.
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Dropped down to Apollo House, best wishes to all the
occupiers. There is a housing crisis in Dublin.
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latest figures.
The daily bus service to Corpus Christi National School in
Moyross is supported by school principal Tiernan ONeill
and financed through local community fundraising
activities.
The driving force behind the service is Moyross parish
priest Father Tony ORiordan who said the service costs up
to 5,000 to run annually.
For children on the bus that are homeless, we dont know
where home is going to be. That can be stressful for an
adult but can you imagine how an eight or 10-year-old
feels, he said.
I know of one situation where a baby was born, released
from hospital and that child began its life at four days old
in a hotel room with his older sister. We have had one
family that has been in 14 different locations within a
three-week period, he continued.
The Moyross school bus begins its school run at 7.30am
and brings up to 15 school children living in emergency
accommodation in the city to school every day.
Principal of Corpus Christi National School, Tiernan ONeill,
said, What the bus enables us to do, is provide a safe
environment for the children during the day and ensures
that their journey to school is a smooth one.
The bus service is used by up to 15 children throughout
the day, during a number of runs. We fund the service
through a number of activities including bag packing and
cake sales, he continued.
According to most recent figures, 197 people, 57 of whom
are children, are in emergency accommodation in
Limerick.
Three hostels in Limerick city are accommodating men
and women; St Patricks Hostel, Thomond House and
McGarry House; all of which are operating at full capacity,
and have waiting lists.
Suaimhneas, which provides emergency accommodation
for families, is also operating at full capacity.
According to Fr ORiordan some homeless families need to
find emergency accommodation themselves.
The children dont have a permanent address and may be
sleeping in their relatives, grandparents or uncles and
aunts, he said.
the last ten hours and just this morning a woman got the
train from Galway just to drop in two bags of supplies.
There are people staying here who would have been
sleeping on the streets last night.
Leonard said the group has put out a call for skilled people
including medical staff and tradespeople to help and this
has been answered across the board.
There has also been a donation of 30 mattresses by
Mattress Mick.
dozens of others from many groups and from none, helped to get
the citizen-operated homeless accommodation up and running.
The first residents were in their rooms within a couple of hours of
the NAMA building being taken over. This is people power in
action. Video shot by Damien Farrell
This picture is from one of the rooms from the nama building which
was took over by homeless protesters, what you guys think? Better
than the streets anyway!
Lawyers for Apollo House receivers said they cannot allow property
be unlawfully occupied
The row between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael shows no sign
of abating. As Simon Coveney seeks to cap rent rises in
Dublin and Cork at 4% a year for the next three years Dec
15th 2016
https://soundcloud.com/the-floating-voter-independent-ie/this-timeits-personal-fix-our-rental-problems
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registration fee.
It has also threated to introduce car parking fees, passing
on letting costs, call out and key replacement costs and
asking tenants to contribute towards the cost of the
property tax.
http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/propertymortgages/dil-backs-simon-coveneys-rental-control-plan35300054.html
Olivia Kelly
Video
contract between
parties.
[3] A most unhappy situation has developed here. Santander
UK plc sought
the Order for possession. They put in an affidavit in support;
they chose
to do it in a particular way, that is through their solicitor. Now,
Mr
Carlin in one of several documents which he submitted to the
court has
sought to rely on a judgment of Mr Justice Peart in the High
Court in
Dublin where he objected to hearsay evidence of debts. It
seems clear that
there is no equivalent of the Civil Evidence Order in the
Republic of
Ireland and explains the judges remarks. We do have a Civil
Evidence
Order. Parties are entitled to put in an affidavit and to rely on
hearsay
evidence with the court assessing its weight. In any event even
before the
Civil Evidence Order an affidavit with the deponent saying that
they had
been informed of something by a named person and that they
believed it was
true, in appropriate cases for the smooth administration of
justice was
received. This is often done, particularly in originating
summonses cases.
But it is important that it is done carefully and conscientiously.
The
system only works if both the lawyer is scrupulous in what the
lawyer says
and the client is honest in what they inform the lawyer.
[4] Here we have the situation where, it is now admitted that
paragraph 15
of the affidavit of Miss Valerie Gibson, solicitor, for the lender
Santander plc of 6 December 2012 is simply wrong. Mr Carlin
would say it is
a lie and at the moment I do not see how that can be clearly
gain said; it
is not Ms Gibsons lie but when somebody told her that the
mortgage had not
been assigned they were either being careless or untruthful
and at this
not got the skeleton argument in time and he had just been
presented with
this change of front at a very late stage and the court was
sympathetic to
that application. I heard from Mr Gibson. I gave the opportunity
to Mr
Carlin as to whether he had any further application and of
course he might
have made several applications at that time but he has
chosen, as he put
it, to ask me to strike out the order, and as he put it, I think not
unreasonably in the circumstances, on the basis of untruth.
Now the court
of course recognises that everybody makes errors. They should
not make them
on affidavits, but at this point I do not know whether this was
an honest
error, I do not know whether somebody was playing fast and
loose with the
truth. No explanation of the earlier misstatement is given in
the new
affidavit. What is certainly the case is that Santander have
been in breach
of the directions of the court, they have been in breach of the
judgment of
Swift v McCourt and they obtained an order by at least, as I
said earlier,
misrepresenting the facts to the Master.
[9] In all those circumstances I conclude therefore that the
appeal should
succeed and I reverse the order of the Learned Master, making
it clear that
this is no reflection on him, and strike out the order for
possession.
STATUTE LAW REVISION (PRE-1922) BILL 2004
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2004/5004/b5
0a04s.pdf
Letter Mr Donald Tusk President of the European Council
Digital_Single_Market_a_chance_for_investment_growth_and_jo
bs_in_Europe_-_Taoiseach_
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/News/Government_Press_Rele
ases/Digital_Single_Market_a_chance_for_investment_growth_a
nd_jobs_in_Europe_-_Taoiseach_.pdf
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/News/Taoiseach's_Press_Relea
ses/Digital_Single_Market_a_major_opportunity_to_boost_the_d
ynamism_and_competitiveness_of_the_European_economy_
_Taoiseach.html
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Do
cuments/Tax/dttl-tax-alert-ireland-101414.pdf
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) IN IRELAND | 08
INTERNATIONALISATION | 09 ... Irelands tax regime does not
involve the filing of consolidated tax returns.
http://www.idaireland.com/docs/publications/Taxation_in_Ir
eland_2015.pdf
Ireland announces
improvements to IP
regime and phasing
out of "double Irish"
http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Ireland_announ
ces_improvements_to_IP_regime_and_phasing_out_of_dou
ble_Irish/$FILE/2014G_CM4787_Ireland%20announces
%20improvements%20to%20IP%20regime%20and
%20phasing%20out%20of%20double%20Irish.pdf
http://www.mhc.ie/fs/doc/publications/mhctimes/Tax_Sandwich.pdf
WILLIAN FRY AVIATION FINANCE THE IRISH SECTION 110
REGIME
http://www.williamfry.com/docs/default-source/practicearea-industry-sector-brochures/aviation---the-irish-section110-regime.pdf?sfvrsn=2
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015
/563454/IPOL_IDA(2015)563454_EN.pdf
Intellectual Property Tax Treatment in Ireland
http://www.offshoreinvestment.com/media/uploads/Hickso
n.pdf
Irish Government announces Budget 2016 and publishes ...
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nt_announces_Budget_2016_and_publishes_update_on_int
ernational_tax_strategy/$FILE/2015G_CM5877_Irish
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%20publishes%20update%20on%20international%20tax
%20strategy.pdf
Ireland to exploit intellectual property. ... friendly taxation
regime. ... the effective rate of tax on income from
intellectual property.
http://www.techlaw.org/wpcontent/uploads/2010/07/Arthur-Cox-Choosing-Ireland-asa-location-for-your-Intellectual-Property-Trading-CompanyOct-10.pdf
Generating cash from Irish R&D ... R&D. Allied to the new
Intellectual Property (IP) tax regime introduced in 2009 ...
provisions of Irelands R&D tax credit regime.
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/pharma-life-sciences/pdf/irishrd-activities.pdf
Complex issues Simon Coveney, a roof over head is not complex, it's
a Human right, scrap the four increase for landlords, year on year
successive Irish coalition governments, you outh to be ashamed of
yourselves
Theyre trying to kick out our homeless from Apollo House! Court
order! Shame! Scum!
Damien Dempsey & Glen Hansard
Homelessness in Ireland has been going on too long.
Were going to end it
This is the link to the fb page for 'Home Sweet Home Eire'Volunteers
needed for so many things - you don't have to be able to go to the
building, helping online and in other ways too
Comment from a judge today in a certain court to a man on his
knees facing homelessness;
' How can you come in here claiming you have a right to your home
when you borrowed the money?'Mans eyes fell to the floor with
embarrassment.
Pity he was too traumatised to answer back with the following;
"We have more right to property than anyone in Europe because the
state used our money without permission to bail out the banks and
now the state is compliant with the banks in trying evict the people
who bailed them out'.
Just remember. All homelessness begins with the bank.
Never EVER leave your home.
There is NOWHERE to go.
Feed your family.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/homeless-children-inireland-worse-off-than-those-in-uk-768054.html
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Prevent homelessness
Eliminate the need for people to sleep rough
Reduce the length of time people experience homelessness to less
than six months.
Meet unmet housing need of people experiencing homelessness
through an increase in housing options that delivers affordable,
accessible housing with supports as required.
Ensure the delivery of services for homeless people that meet their
needs, produce the sought-after, person-centred outcomes
required and can demonstrate their effectiveness through
McNamara says.
In many cases just contacting the owners and telling
them of an intention to compulsorily purchase the
building has had the desired effect, according to Clegg.
A lot of people came back very smartly, and either
rendered the building nonderelict or put it on the
market, but there were others where there was no
engagement. We contact the reputed owners, but there
can be title difficulties, or owners out of the country, or
in nursing homes. Theres almost always a human side
to these cases.
The 15 million fund will be a rolling one, and as
buildings are sold on it will be replenished. The council
has initially concentrated on easy wins buildings that
dont cost too much and are quick to shift but it plans
to tackle more ambitious projects if the fund is
successful, Clegg says.
We would like to buy more historic buildings, but we
need to be prudent: you could blow the entire city
budget acquiring these properties.
Fears about the regulatory burden associated with
listed buildings deters buyers from taking them on,
particularly when it seems that complying with
standards such as disability access can conflict with
conservation requirements.
Recognising this, the council cut some of the costs of
bringing listed buildings back into use three years ago.
Where an owner is making an application for the
change of use of a building often the case when a
vacant protected structure is being brought back into
occupation they are exempt from development levies.
An owner extending a protected structure will pay only
half the standard development contribution.
But are the incentives sufficient? The low uptake of
schemes seems to indicate that buyers are still
cautious.
http://www.irishtimes.com/lifeand-style/homes-andproperty/dublin-s-emptybuildings-could-they-solve-thehousing-problem-1.2899765
Fine Gael labelled the landlord party
due to homeless crisis
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Juno McEnroe
TD Mick Barry calls Taoiseach Enda Kenny 'the leader of
the landlord party', as residential rents continue to rise
http://linkis.com/shr.gs/vkbRP
http://linkis.com/shr.gs/vkbRP
Labour Leader Brendan Howlins description of a DoNothing Dil is now a mild analysis of the current chassis.
The system is dangerously lurching from one populist
http://www.housingrightswatch.org/sit
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Saoirse Ronan
this.
chronic homelessness.
BY TONY CUDDIHY
https://www.joe.ie/news/this-dublin-pub-is-sendingfood-to-apollo-house-and-wants-other-businessesto-do-the-same/571043?
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http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Housing/H
omelessness/CSOs/28102015-FEANTSA.pdf
Focus Ireland has actively participated in this
process, both in our own right and as part of
FEANTSA (the European network of homeless
organisations.
That may or not be the case but one of the real reasons
for the homeless crisis is the lack of affordable housing
because the Fine Gael/Labour Government built
virtually no local authority homes during their time in
office.
Mr Daly and Mr McDonagh ... how about you call off your
expensive lawyers and donate a few thousand Euro from
NAMA's billion Euro budget to buy beds, blankets and
breakfast cereals. And If nobody dies on the streets this
Christmas you might feel you have done some good (for
once).
Remember Jonathan Corrie this Christmas
Sarah Bardon
Frances Fitzgerald: will tell Cabinet that 520 refugees will have been resettled
in Ireland by end of the year. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Relocation system
regulations. The government says Ireland has no right to tax nonresident companies for profits that come from activities outside the
country.
"Look at the small print" on an iPhone, Noonan said after the EU
released its ruling in August. "It says designed in California,
manufactured in China. That means any profits that accrued didn't
accrue in Ireland, so I can't see why the tax liability is in Ireland."
In the coming weeks, the EU is expected to publish details of the
Maxforce investigation. At about the same time, Apple will likely lodge
its own appeal in the EU court. Though Apple will have to pay its tax bill
within weeks, the money will be held in escrow, and the issue will
probably take years to be resolved.
This story is based on interviews with dozens of officials from the EU,
Ireland, and Apple, though most didn't want to speak on the record
discussing sensitive tax matters. A Maxforce representative declined to
make Lienemeyer available for an interview. Ireland's Office of Revenue
Commissioners (the equivalent of the American Internal Revenue
Service) says it can't comment on specific companies.
Lienemeyer began assembling the Maxforce in late spring of 2013 with a
mandate of scrutinizing tax policies across Europe in search of any
favoritism. Direct subsidies or tax breaks to court a specific company are
illegal in the EU to prevent governments aiding national champions. His
first hire -- the person who would oversee the Apple probe -- was Helena
Malikova, a Slovak who had worked at Credit Suisse Group in Zurich.
He quickly added Kamila Kaukiel, a Polish financial analyst who had
been at KPMG, and Saskia Hendriks, a former tax policy adviser to the
Dutch government.
As the four initial members began their investigations, they got a head
start from a U.S. Senate probe of the tax strategies of American
multinationals. The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations said Apple shifted tens of billions of dollars in profit into
stateless affiliates based in Ireland, where it secured a tax rate of less
than 2 percent.
At 9:30 a.m. on May 21, 2013, senators gathered in Room 106 of the
Dirksen Office Building. Included in the evidence presented that day
was a 2004 letter from Tom Connor, an official at Ireland's tax
authority, to Ernst & Young, Apple's tax adviser. Connor's question: A
unit of the tech company hadn't filed a tax return; Was it still in
business? E&Y responded two days later that the division was a nonresident holding company with no real sales. "There is nothing to return
from the corporation tax standpoint," E&Y wrote. The Senate exhibits
didn't include Connor's response if there ever was one.
At the hearing, Arizona Republican John McCain castigated Apple as
"one of the biggest tax avoiders in America." Democrat Carl Levin of
Michigan peered over the glasses perched on the tip of his nose and said
Apple uses "offshore tax strategies whose purpose is tax avoidance, pure
and simple." Crucially, though, Levin told the crowded room that under
U.S. law, there was little the panel could do to force Apple to pay more
tax. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook passionately defended the
company's actions, telling the senators "We don't depend on tax
gimmicks."
The Senate revelations raised eyebrows at the Maxforce's office in
Madou Tower, a 1960s high-rise in the rundown Saint-Josse
neighborhood of Brussels. Three weeks after the Senate hearing,
Lienemeyer's team asked Ireland for details of Apple's tax situation. The
Irish tax authorities soon dispatched a representative carrying a
briefcase filled with a bundle of bound pages. The Irish could have
simply sent the material via e-mail, but they were cautious about
sharing taxpayer's information with the EU and have a ground rule to
avoid leaks: never send such documents electronically.
While the Irish government remained bullish in its public statements,
saying Apple hadn't received any favors, behind the scenes tensions
were rising. Through the summer of 2013, the Finance Ministry assured
government ministers that the EU investigation would amount to
nothing, according to people familiar with the discussions. But those
assertions seemed less confident than earlier communications. There
was a sense that Apple had worked out its Irish tax position in a vastly
different era, and no one remembered many details of the negotiations
decades earlier.
In 1980, the four-year-old company -- the Apple III desktop had just
been released -- created several Irish affiliates, each with a different
function such as manufacturing or sales, according to the Senate report.
Under Irish laws dating to the 1950s designed to shore up the moribund
post-war economy, as a so-called export company Apple paid no taxes
on overseas sales of products made in Ireland.
To comply with European rules, Ireland finally ended its zero-tax policy
in 1990. After that, Apple and Ireland agreed that the profit attributed to
a key Ireland-based unit, the division discussed in Tom Connor's letter,
be capped using a complex formula that in 1990 would have resulted in
a taxable profit of $30 million to $40 million.
An Apple tax adviser "confessed there was no scientific basis" for those
figures, but that the amounts would be "of such magnitude that he
hoped it would be seen as a bona-fide proposal," according to notes
from a 1990 meeting with the Irish tax authority cited by the EU. The
equation didn't change even as Apple began assembling the bulk of its
products in Asia.
Ireland and Apple started to make changes a few months after the
Maxforce began looking into their tax relationship. In October 2013,
Finance Minister Noonan announced he would close the loophole that
let stateless holding companies operate out of Ireland. The EU says
Apple changed the structure of its Irish units in 2015.
As the Maxforce stepped up its probe in June 2014, Irish Prime Minister
Enda Kenny was wooing potential investors in California. At a San
Francisco event to promote Irish entrepreneurs, Governor Jerry Brown
budget, Ireland didn't want the windfall, saying the ruling was flawed
because the country hadn't given Apple any special treatment. The
decision sparked a political crisis as left-leaning members of Enda
Kenny's fragile minority administration saw a potential bonanza for
taxpayers that the world's richest company could well afford. Even as
Noonan toured television studios vowing to appeal the decision,
independent lawmakers demanded that Ireland take the money.
Facing a potential revolt that could bring down the government, Kenny
and Noonan eventually bowed to demands for a review of the country's
corporate tax system. But they said they would fight the case, and on
Sept. 7, Irish lawmakers overwhelmingly backed the motion for an
appeal.
Officials from Lienemeyer's team and other EU offices say they have
gathered tax information on about 300 companies, looking for what
they deem to be favorable treatment by governments across Europe.
While they don't expect all of those to yield payoffs as hefty as that from
their investigation of Ireland and Apple, they say a worrying number
require the kind of maximum force that the Maxforce can apply.
"We focus on outliers where you're looking at something that is off the
radar screen," Lienemeyer's boss, 50-year-old Dutchman Gert-Jan
Koopman, who is in charge of state-aid enforcement at the EU, said at a
Brussels conference in November. "If you're paying a fair amount of tax
then there is absolutely nothing to worry about."
UniCredit
UniCredit is Italys largest bank, a major
international financial institution with strong roots
in 22 European countries and an international
network represented in approximately 50 markets,
with 9578 branches and more than 162,000
employees. In the Centre and East of Europe,
UniCredit operates the largest international
banking network with around 4,000 branches and
outlets. UniCredits Irish branch managed 27bn at
the relevant time. UniCredit is said to be Italianconservative in much of its ethic. It was in the
news when its renowned head Alessandro Profumo
resigned in September 2010 arising out of a feud
with UniCredits main shareholders who have been
uncomfortable with the banks growing need to
raise capital, especially from Libya. The Libyan
Investment Authority, a sovereign-wealth fund,
recently increased its holding in UniCredit by 0.5%
to 2.6%, while the Central Bank of Libya holds an
almost 5% stake in the bank.
UniCredit operates on its own and through a
labyrinth of subsidiaries.
UniCredits 96.35%-owned subsidiary, Bank Austria
Austrias largest bank has a twenty-five
percent stake in another Austrian bank, Medici,
which is in big trouble. In mid-December a
complaint against Ms Sonja Kohn was part of a
fusillade of litigation filed in federal bankruptcy
court in Manhattan by Irving H Picard, the trustee
trying to recover $40bn in assets for victims who
sustained cash losses in the enormous Ponzi
pyramid fraud perpetrated by the worlds most
famous fraudster, Bernie Madoff. The trustee
contends Bank Medici was nothing more than a
conduit set up for the sole purpose of funnelling
money to Mr Madoff. It is alleged Sonja Kohn
issues they care about and that matter for the country.
That is what good politics should be about. This could go
in the future but once you empower people it is hard to
revert back. TDs who have never been remotely happy
with their role on the sidelines are unlikely to allow a
return to the dysfunctionality that was a feature of previous
majority governments.
Tax avoidance by vulture funds costs the State between
10bn and 20bn, according to Donnelly. He offers
treatment of this issue as an example of the new politics
in action. He raised it at leaders questions a few months
ago but the government had no position on it. He then
talked to politicians across Fianna Fil, Labour and even
Fine Gael and prepared a policy paper on the issue.
Fianna Fil then announced they would not vote through
any Finance Bill that did not address the issue.
Michael Noonan presented an amendment to address the
issue. Donnelly prepared a technical note on the
amendment, pursued the matter further through the new
Budget Oversight Committee, and met Michael Noonan
privately on the matter. A further amendment was put
forward by the Minister. Another detailed technical note
issued from Donnelly: further change was promised.
This new-found efficacy, he allows, may reflect the fact
hes a more experienced legislator in his second mandate.
However, his case is that this is the new politics in action.
This would not have happened in the last Dil. TDs can
now raise issues, co-operate across party lines, and have
some confidence that the executive will respond. TDs have
greater and more varied forms of leverage open to them.
Extraordinary in a democracy
that there's so little interest in
this
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
story_fbid=1162932557117392&id=182354901841834
Whistleblowers Testify in EU
Parliament
by Golem Xiv on NOVEMBER 17, 2016 in LATEST
Now if you listen to the press this is all the fault of Brexit. Which
strikes me as misdirection. Its trying to suggest this is a political
problem created by the great unwashed and nothing to to do with
greedy investors speculating and lenders lending into a bubble
market.
The fact is that RBSs share price has been sliding from early 2015
onwards. Which is interesting since until the end of
2015 commercial property prices were still going up and the
experts just a few months ago in December 2015 quoted in the FT
were assuring us that,
Real estate prices expected to remain high for years.
and that,
Pricing has gotten very high but theres a reason it has gotten
highand we think it can stay high, said Bob Sulentic, the
companys [CBRE the worlds ;largest property service company]
chief executive. Theres a wall of capital out there that wants to be
invested in real estate.
So let me recap property prices were fine and going to stay fine
said the experts in property. But all the while certain people
were selling their bank shares and trying to get out. And then what
do you know. Suddenly those property prices were revalued down
by 17% overnight.
And if it was just RBSs share price we might just think it was one
bad apple. But Credit Suisse shares are trading at their lowest
ever. While Deutsche bank, with more derivative exposure than
any other bank, except perhaps JP Morgan is, .. well you decide.
I seriously doubt those banks are tumbling to such crisis levels just
6/10
The Ring Mistress of the New Politics has not always had
an easy ride of it.
She has had to crack the whip on her fellow ministers to
make sure the Government has enough numbers in the
Dil to win votes.
Hers is a largely procedural role and she has been solid
enough in the face of hideous chaos on a daily basis.
5/10.
1
Finance Minister Michael Noonan
http://www.independent.ie/opin
ion/editorial/the-banks-mustpay-for-what-theyve-done35300906.html
1:06:00 - Iceland
1:06:50 - Activities of the ECB
1:07:00 - EU war on Community Banks
1:08:30 - Negative Interest Rate Policy of the ECB, favours
speculators to the detriment of the economy
1:10:25 - War on Cash
1:11:45 - Lower Interest Rates do not stimulate the economy
1:14:00 - Quantity of money not the price of money that drives
the Economy Bank credit for GDP transactions drives the
economy
1:15:45 - Current Central Bank War on Cash
1:19:30 - Princes of the Yen, Central Bank Truth Documentary
on YouTube (247,000 views, Nov 2016) & Book plus other
Publications.
Prof Werners Books on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Werner...
Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary
https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY
1:20:00 - Irish Government - Stop the issuance of Government
Bonds - 12% Vs 4%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MechH0ebs_c&feature=youtu.be
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be
taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly
belongs "
The little guys steal a pack of sausages and get sentenced to 3 months in
prison.
The big guys fiddle millions, even billions and are told it is unacceptable
and are at worst fined.
The laws are inadequate and biased to say the least.
banking.... laws are "spider webs through which the big flies pass and
the little ones get caught".' That sums it up. Very well said! I think
recently on VB show it was said by a FG TD that we pay a few bn in
interest alone on our national debt, a big part of which is the repayment
on the cited bank billions. The real cost, as the author states is the moral
bankruptcy of both these and our governing institutions. Moral hazard
lies squarely on their shoulders as people occupy buildings to merely get
out of the cold.
Don't expect any action from Old Baldy. he is the banks puppet.
The group Home Sweet Home took over the building late on Thursday
night to house the homeless
December 16, 16
http://www.thejournal.ie
/hansard-nama-buildingcivil-disobedience3144670-Dec2016/
1
Niamh and George O'Hara, from Ballymun, who are 'taking a step
back' after nine years of marriage to get out of the rental market
The couple lost two night of sleep due to stress but have
now opted to leave their home.
After three days of talking about it and being stressed
weve decided that in order to go forward in our life we
actually have to take a step back and weve decided to
move back in with my dad for a year.
Hopefully that year will give us time to get back on our
feet because its just a kick in the teeth, she said.
Weve to walk away from the home that we have taken
care of for the last six years, she said.
Were just not willing to be at the hands of greedy people
anymore.
Read more: The rent row explained: What it
means for renters, landlords, Coveney and the
minority government
Both Niamh and her husband are from Ballymun but they
will now have to move to Cabra, leaving their community
behind.
Hopefully its just for a year, she said.
The pair plan to try and secure a mortgage to buy a home
after saving for a year when they live with Niamhs dad.
Were six years in our house this week. When we took it
on the rent was 775, it just goes to show you how much
things have spiralled out of control, she said.
Were nine years in this trap and its probably our own
fault that at the beginning we didnt take time out to live at
home for a year. The last thing youre thinking as a
married couple is live with your parents.
But its come to the crunch now and something has to
give.
When the 4pc was introduced on Tuesday we talked
about it [fighting for a lower increase] for a while but after
two days of no sleep and the distress we were put through
I decided its time to just get out of this, she said.
Its time to say I give up Im going to better myself and
my life.
Trying to put an increase of 40pc on any one person or
couple at one time is appalling I think, he said.
1
Amy Molloy, who says the 4pc rent cap proposed by the Housing
Minister is not going to solve the problem. Photo: Tom Burke
Substandard
However, when it comes to the Irish rental market, it's
acceptable to charge 500 for a single room in a property
which is damp and substandard.
When plans for the two-year rent freeze were announced
last year, it sent landlords into a price hike frenzy.
Yet it was declared a significant step in tackling Ireland's
rental crisis.
The 4pc cap on rent increases proposed by the Housing
Minister isn't going to solve this problem.
People are still going to be living in dumps, and paying
over-the-top prices to do so.
In recent years, I rented a property in Santry for 475. As
the end of our tenancy approached, our landlord believed
we would renew our lease.
Read more: Fianna Fil refuse to back Coveneys rent
strategy creating crisis for Government
We received an email from the estate agents notifying us
that the landlord would be increasing the rent for this
three-bed property from 1,425 per month up to as much
as 1,925.
But then it added that because we were "good tenants", he
would only hike it up to 1,725.
That is not much of an incentive to be "good".
The most patronising part was when they highlighted the
following: "That will only be an extra 100 each."
That is "only" 100 to three girls on salaries of 24,000 a
year. Know your audience, estate agents.
You don't mind paying a high price for somewhere you
look forward to going home to.
But I've lived in places where the shower was the
equivalent of someone dribbling on you from a height, and
we had a slug infestation to boot.
There was also a build-up of mould on the kitchen ceiling
due to our extractor fan not working - despite numerous
requests to get it fixed.
If the Government really wants to tackle the rental crisis, it
should implement measures whereby the quality of
The impact.
"Hopefully that year will give us time to get back on our
feet because its just a kick in the teeth, she said.
Weve to walk away from the home that we have taken
care of for the last six years, she said.Were just not
willing to be at the hands of greedy people anymore
FINANCE Minister Michael Noonans curt nothing-to-seehere dismissal of the Oxfam charge that Ireland is one of
the worlds leading tax havens does him, our Government,
and this society no credit.
She said: "It's very easy for us to leave here, walk down
Grafton Street and pass people who are actually putting in
a bed for the night.
"That's not right, and that's the social conscience in me."
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/hardpressed-landlords-threaten-to-impose-new-charges-inresponse-to-new-rent-caps-768921.html
So eirigi ire have taken over apollo house 'big office block on tara
street empty 8 years ' and mattress mick has filled it with
mattresses and they've taken in all the homeless around Dublin ..
deadly
the building.
"It's scandalous that there are people dying and freezing on
the street," singer Damien Dempsey told reporters outside the
building.
Co-founder of Home Sweet Home, trade unionist Brendan
Ogle, told The Irish Times the group had identified the Namamanaged property in the city centre and was staging a
citizens intervention in the homelessness crisis.
Around 30 mattresses were delivered to the building by
Mattress Mick.
Figures in November showed the level of homelessness in
Dublin rose by over a third in the past year.
The latest report from the Dublin Region Homeless Executive
has revealed there were a total of 5,146 adults and children in
emergency accommodation last month - a 35% increase in the
last year.
The figures surrounding homeless families in the city make for
even starker reading - with 1,026 families in homeless
accommodation including hotels, a 45% increase on last year.
Homelessness charity, Focus Ireland said 67 families who
became newly homeless in October were referred to its family
services in Dublin.
The organisations Director of advocacy, Mike Allen said the
figures paint, a really appalling, bleak picture as we head into
Christmas.
to Dublin City Council that money is not the issue [...] We are
ramping up the supports that are necessary.
"Ultimately, what we need is homes for people through social
housing problems, not emergency beds. In the short-term, we
need to increase emergency facilities."
http://www.newstalk.com/Takeover-of-vacant-NAMA-buildingfor-use-by-the-homeless-continues
Emergency help
Dean Scurry of Home Sweet Home said the the
action was a short-term initiative designed to provide
emergency help for the real number of rough sleepers
in Dublin City Centre which he said was about 300.
Mr Scurry said It is Christmas time. We dont want to
hear of any more deaths on the streets, he said.
Mr Scurry who said concerned friends had planned
and executed the plan to seize a building in five weeks,
said he believed the move would be successful because
of the people who have shown the love for this proving
they wanted to make a difference, people like Glen
Hansard. all those people that we look up to when we
go to gigs. People all over the country believe we can
make a difference.
He said the initiative came from a homeless man who
posted a video on Facebook saying it would be great if
we could get the homeless people off the streets and
put them in a Nama building.
An hour after that I met him in a park. We had a chat ,
an hour after that I had a chat with Brendan Ogle. An
hour after that I had a chat with the Irish Housing
Network, I had a chat with Glen Hansard, starting to
pull things together. That was five weeks ago.
Activists gained access to the property in the capitals
south inner-city at around 11pm on Thursday.
A Garda spokesman said that garda were called to the
area at about 12.30am on Friday morning. He
described the incident as peaceful and said garda
are no longer at the scene but are liaising closely with
parties involved.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/protesters-takeover-vacant-nama-building-for-use-by-homeless-1.2908396
Now you know why simon will never sort the housing crisis
Theas people are the Mafia of Ireland when are ye going to realise
this they are in for them selfs and nobody else.
90% of our politicians are clueless from reality removed gobshites !
Ever seen a penny drop; we did, dropped off the top shelf, it rolled
across the floor and stopped at WoodsHogan; it came from our own
post last night about the switcheroo, one aspect of the switcheroo is
the fact that WoodsHogan are dead and gone and yet when we were
going through the Courts listings today, Woodshogan were still on
record. Anyone joining the dots?
Bank A has your mortgage and employs a solicitor ABC.
The Bank then sells your mortgage to bank B who has a solicitor
DEF:
Bank Bs solicitor DEF then goes into the Circuit Court to change
all of the paperwork: this cant happen and those changes have
been done illegally;
Bank As; solicitor thats ABC must change the paperwork, then
come off record; Bank B solicitor DEF must then come on record.
Any Order gained is: invalid, any Court Case going forward is
:invalid.
So: its a notice of Motion to Strike the case out for want of
Jurisdiction: the whole process of the name change is flawed and not
done properly.
Has the original entity since died?
If WoodsHogan is a dead entity: how did Bank A or bank B for that
matter get the Court Papers. This plot just got deep, real deep:
still trying to get our heads around the situation but some heads will
roll over this one. The Vulture funds may have just shot themselves
in the foot: more to follow, we suspect, just joining the dots, crossing
the Ts and dotting the Is.
The Irish Famine was the greatest tragedy in Irish History. Between
1845 and 1848 about a million people died. Many of these people
are buried in unmarked graves. One of these graveyard is behind
my house at Kilally Ardee Road Dundalk.In 1842 Dundalk Union
workhouse was opened to look after the poorest people. These
people got very little to eat and they only got meat at Christmas
and Easter. They slept on straw and this lead to a lot of infection and
diseases .By 1852 the graveyard at the workhouse was full and a
new graveyard was needed. A man named Thomas fortesque sold
an acre of land at Kilally to the workhouse and Mr McEvoy who had
the ladnd rented got 20.00 for giving it up. The first people were
buried here in 1853. These people were not considered important.
The graves were not marked out , they were not given headstones
and their names were not recorded.My grandfather told me that the
people were carried from the workhouse to the graveyard about
1km in a coffin with a trap door, carried by two men. Thew body was
dumped in the graves and was covered with a sheet. There are no
records of how many people are buried in the graveyard. Over the
years the graveyard dilapidated. In 2005 some neighbours restored
the graveyard and put a new gate with a plaque on the wall.
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tenants.
The document also includes a focus on addressing the
related issues of homelessness, the rental bubble,
difficulties in obtaining mortgages, construction and the
amount of houses available in an apparent admission the
matters are part of the same problem.
The 37 separate points, and the fact none are costed to
date, will be central to the second day of round-table talks
at 10.30am today in Leinster House.
While Fine Gael remains hopeful forming a minority
government on April 6, a number of Independent TDs have
privately said the reality that other equally important
policy matters must be addressed means late April is more
realistic. In addition, the Independent Alliance and the
five-strong rural TD alliance have already committed to
holding separate meetings with Fianna Fil and its leader
Michel Martin throughout that day.
Speaking at Fairyhouse Racecourse yesterday, Mr Kenny
said no TD can sit on the sidelines and that they have
to take responsibility.
Independent TDs Michael Collins and John Halligan last
night said the public is frustrated Mr Kenny and Mr Martin
have yet to open talks.
the country to give familys a home & get kids that are living I'm
hotels out of them so they can have a normal life & be kids.
Yes let's do this all over ireland limerick have started taken care of
the homeless by helping with clothes blankets and lots more
another collection on 20th Dec outside penny's from 7pm maybe an
empty building next
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Joan Collins said the minister did not have the power to
allocate an unlimited sum of public money
situation.
However, Ms Justice Denham said it could not
be considered as a template for broader
ministerial power on other occasions.
She said it was unlikely the Oireachtas would
concede such wide ranging power in other
less pressing circumstances.
But she said if it did, and a minister or other
body was permitted to provide unlimited
financial support, without limitation in time to
any commercial entity, then it would not
follow from this case that such would be
constitutionally permissible.
The ruling also found that the fact that no
financial cap was placed on the financial
support capable of being provided, might be
imprudent.
Or she said it might be an entirely prudent,
though necessary and awesome response to
an exceptional situation.
In either case the Chief Justice said it is a
decision made by the organ empowered by
the Constitution to do so.
She said the Oireachtas was free to decide to
impose limits on the extent to which the
State may borrow or spend but that decision
is one consigned by the Constitution to the
legislative branch and not the judicial branch
of government.
In the ruling, the court found the limits
placed on the exercise of ministerial power
under the 2008 act did not include a financial
cap, beyond which the financial support
Noonan: "Totally"
Context: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/...
Full interview available here with comments beginning around
nine minutes in
http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/r...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76z7gIJQEaA
Promissory Notes Are Legal Tender Private Banker from Blacks Law
Dictionary
an 30, 2016
Private Bankers National Banking Association,
http://www.PBNBA.com Promissory Notes Are Legal Tender.
Private Banker from Blacks Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, page
133, definition: Banking. The business of banking, as defined
by law and custom, consists in the issue of notes intended
to circulate as money..
And defines a Bankers Note (A Promissory Note) as: A
commercial instrument resembling a bank note in every
particular except that it is given by a private banker or
unincorporated banking institution. A Private Banker is a
Financial Institution; Unincorporated Banking Institution; and
Financial Agency pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 5312. Private Bankers
National Banking Association, PBNBA, Bankers Acceptance
Promissory Note under (U.C.C. 2-304) states, "The price can
be made payable in money or otherwise...".
IRS codes section 1.1001-1 (4657) C.C.H. states that Federal
Reserve Notes (Dollars) are valueless. The only lawful money
of the United States Of America are gold and silver coins with 1
oz .999 pure gold or silver as per Articles VIII and X of the
Constitution
For the United States of America, 1787. Bank Loan Contracts or
lender promissory notes requiring legal money that is not true
money such as: bank checks, cash, check, money orders,
attorney checks, bank transfers, wire transfers, FEDERAL
RESERVE PROMISSORY NOTE DOLLARS, cashier checks, and
certified checks from a bank, attorney, or escrow company are
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRHSWGYNFc
The interview you all have being waiting for. Finally Irish
mainstream interviews Johnathon Sugarman,
These are the shower that is milking us dry. Yes rotten
Bastards.
These are the shower that is milking us dry. Yes rotten
Bastards.
Next step - take over the empty properties, and properties
owned by the Vulture Funds and rehouse the families
living in Hotels and Bed and Breakfast. 40 Families a
month being put out on the street, and more to come. All
this Government is interested in doing is to increase the
rents - instead of building Social Housing with our Tax
money. They bleat on, that there is no money - yeh right WE DO NOT BELIEVE YOU..
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Landlord group
threatens new
charges over rental
plans
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
8%.
Mr Coveney said the new wording would
ensure that anyone who is a tenant in a rent
pressure zone will be sure that at the end of
their two-year tenancy they will not face
more than a 4% increase, and thereafter
there would no be more than a 4% increase.
Mr Coveney also clarified that regardless of
when a rent review happens, a property in
the designated zone could not have a rent
increase of more than 4% in a 12-month
period.
He explained that if there was a change of
tenancy after six months, then the rise would
be 2%.
He said the Government did not want to have
an incentive for landlords in a rent pressure
zone ending a tenancy early.
The Dil is sitting until 8pm to continue the
debate on the legislation.
An amendment tabled by Independent TD
Seamus Healy to give people the right to
remain in dwellings where a landlord wants
to sell 20 or more units was defeated.
The so-called 'Tyrrelstown amendment'
referred to the families in the west Dublin
suburb who were served with notice to vacate
homes after they were bought up by a so-called
'vulture fund'.
Mr Coveney said he sought the advice of the
Attorney General who suggested that figure be
changed to 10.
Simon Coveney won that spat, played out over two days,
about the rent control plan.
Many, but not all, in Fine Gael will be pleased that he
chalked up a scarce win for the ones who have the name of
leading this creaky minority Coalition.
http://www.independent.ie/business/personalfinance/property-mortgages/landlords-threatenraft-of-new-charges-in-reaction-to-government-
decision-to-cap-rents-35300054.html
Dail Erin Are a Disgrace to Humanity over allowing Vulture Landlords
To Crucify Tenant's in order to Provide Pensions for themselves. Once
again the the Markets and Capitalist System including Democracy have
utterly Failed. t is up to the State to Provide Reasonable priced housing
and rental accommodation for its Citizens All Rents Should Be
Reduced Immediately by 50% God Knows we have had enough of
Landlord Vultures in the Past. Politian's are elected to Protect Citizens
not Enslave Them..........Disgusted to see the policies of making The
Rich Richer being enforced 100 years after achieving our
Independence and Freedom. .
Deal reached
between Fine Gael
and Fianna Fil on
rental measures
Updated / Dec. 15, 2016
Mary Robinson to
gift archive to NUI
Galway
Updated / Nov. 28, 2016
Mary Robinson will not avail of tax credits for donating her
archive
250,000 valuation
for Mary Robinson
'light in the window'
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
Coveney: No
Govt plans to
forcibly take
vacant
properties
Updated / May 24, 2016
Joe Brennan
The National Treasury Management Agency said the bills were due to be
repaid in 12 months. Photograph: Eric Luke
The States debt agency plans to sell 500 million of shortterm debt, known as treasury bills, this week in what is
expected to be its last engagement this year with the
capital markets.
THREE SIMPLE STEPS TO DESTRUCTION
The ongoing cancellation of the IBRC Promissory Note
bonds and subsequent destruction of the money raised is
a three-part process:
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) issues
sovereign bonds from which it raises billions of euro this
becomes part of the national debt, interest paid on the
bonds from the date of sale, the principal to be repaid
when those bonds mature;
In increments (so far) of 500m, the NTMA uses some of
those billions to buy the IBRC Promissory Note bonds held
When the banking crisis hit Ireland there were still no such
structures in place to deal with troubled banks and as a
direct result of that negligence, Ireland suffered a major
hit.
The EU, however, the ECB in particular, DID have a policy
no bank would be allowed fail. So in 2009/10 when Anglo
and INBS were already (to anyone with even half a brain)
obviously insolvent, a fudge was concocted between the
Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish government and the ECB
to save those banks. This involved the issuance of
Promissory Notes by the Irish government, accepted as
collateral by the Central Bank of Ireland/ECB, and funding
eventually amounting to 31bn was issued to the two
insolvent banks from the Emergency Liquidity Assistance
(ELA) fund.
Despite the fact that this was done principally to save
bigger banks across the eurozone, in Germany and France
particularly (Anglo and INBS were non-systemic to the Irish
banking system); despite the fact the ECB colluded in the
circumventing of its own rules on use of the ELA; despite
the fact all involved knew that Anglo/INBS (later combined
to become IBRC) would never be able to repay those
billions, the same ECB now insists that Ireland must take
that entire 31bn back out of circulation.
We dont have it (were broke, up to our necks in debt) so
we borrow it, and tranche by 500m tranche our Central
Bank destroys it the three-part system described above.
Is all this too complex to understand? Why are not being
told whats happening? We in the Ballyhea Says No
understand, we know whats happening, down to the last
sordid detail.
We are determined that all in Ireland should also know,
that all our friends in Europe (and we have many) should
know.
bonds.
That money is destroyed.
Thats right, my friends destroyed.
mature; this year, 2015, the NTMA gave the Central Bank
of Ireland 2,000m of borrowed money, 2,000m on which
we are now paying interest, 2,000m which will have to
repaid by a future generation of Irish people when those
bonds mature.
And the Central Bank of Ireland immediately destroyed
those hundreds of millions of euro, all three billion.
Those three billion are just the start the Central Bank of
Ireland still holds 25bn of IBRC bonds for sale, that 25bn
then also to be destroyed.
A NOD AND A WINK, A 31bn DEBT
The reason for all this destruction of money? In 2009/10,
to prevent the collapse of two insolvent banks (Anglo Irish
and INBS), the Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish
Government and the ECB colluded to bypass the ECBs
own regulations and allowed the creation of 31bn to bail
out the creditors of the two banks; a couple of years ago
those banks were finally wound up and as was known
even at the time, didnt have the wherewithal to cover
that 31bn; the ECB now insists that our Central Bank has
to take that entire 31bn back out of circulation. We dont
have it of course, so we borrow it and, tranche by 500m
tranche, destroy it.
The irony, as we head into 2016 if this were to happen
now, under the new ECB banking Single Resolution
Mechanism, those two banks would be bailed out using
funds raised from the banks themselves. All too late for
Ireland of course; those structures SHOULD have been in
place from the launch of the euro, but werent.
That the government would much prefer you didnt know
any of this is understandable, for obvious reasons; that the
Irish Times, that ALL our major national media, would so
misrepresent it, is an utter disgrace.
They would also have you all believe that the bank-debt
ship has sailed, all water under the bridge.
11.1
11.3
Germany
0.4
1.7
1
Austria
0.8
Netherlands
0.8
1.4
Source: Bloomberg, NTMA. *10 year yield used due to
lack of information on 8 year yields
Funding Practicalities
While the high interest rate on the new debt takes some of
the shine off Irelands return to the markets, the second
bond swap of the year has helped remove the significant
challenge of a funding cliff. At the beginning of this year,
Ireland was faced with a particularly unfriendly profile of
debt maturity: around 12 billion was due to be repaid in
January 2014, followed by a period of much smaller bond
repayments. The logistics of finding a buyer for 12 billion
worth of Irish debt so soon after the planned exit from the
troika assistance programme presented a daunting task.
However, thanks to the two successful bond swaps, this
funding requirement has been reduced to 7.8 billion and
the funding profile has become more balanced and
manageable.
Restoring Confidence
Confidence that Ireland can manage its debt in a normal
fashion is a precursor for Ireland to exit the troika bailout
programme, and this successful auction of long term
bonds is a part of building that confidence. The fact that
yields fell in the aftermath of the bond auction indicates
that the market attaches some value to the NTMAs
actions. There is also a possible link between a return to
conventional sources of government funding and higher
levels of investment and consumption in the domestic
economy, although such benefits would be hard to
quantify. The costs of returning to the market are easier to
identify: funding from official lenders carries an interest
which has just seen the size of its empire boosted by the
inclusion of property previously on the books of the now
liquidated IBRC.
The NTMA will be spearheading the sale of Bord Gis on
behalf of the state holding company New Era, while
continuing in charge of a shrunken National Pensions
Reserve Fund which has just committed 500m towards
Irish SMEs.
The resum
- Born: 1951.
- Education: University College Dublin.
- Career: 1980s, chief investment officer, AIB Investment
Managers. - 1991: Joined NTMA shortly after its launch by
the Haughey government.
- Initial position: Director, domestic funding-debt
management.
- 2001-2009: Investment director, National Pensions
Reserve Fund.
- 2009 to date: Chief executive.
- In the news: Oversaw this weeks 5bn issue of 10-year
bonds, the largest such Irish state issue since the
beginning of the financial crisis.
Ensuring that empty and boarded-up units are brought into use as quickly as possible
Ensuring that vulnerable groups including homeless households are prioritised in the
allocation of housing.
Ensuring that other suitable vacant residential properties are brought into use as
quickly as possible.
Using NAMA units, and ensuring priority for homeless households.
Ensuring that state leasing arrangements facilitate the use and accessibility of these
properties by homeless households.
Establishing a social housing renting service where properties for homeless
households are sourced for use by local authorities and voluntary housing associations.
Key measures/funding
In 2014, over 5,000 social housing units will be added by means of direct construction,
returning vacant properties to beneficial use, and leasing of units from the NAMA and
the private sector.
Funding for housing this year at over 587 million, is effectively maintained at 2013
levels.
In March 2014, some 56 social housing construction projects with an overall value of
some 68 million were announced.
This new construction programme will deliver 449 new units of accommodation for
people on the housing waiting list.
Last month details were announced of a new measure with funding of 15 million
which will be invested in bringing some 950 vacant and boarded-up local authority
houses back into productive use.
Last week the Government also pledged a further 50 million for further construction
projects, the reinstatement of vacant dwellings, and for homeless-specific projects.
Minister OSullivan will announce details in the coming days of further projects under
the Capital Assistance Scheme, including a 25m provision for homelessness.
http://patdeering.ie/2014/05/21/homelessnessimplementation-plan/
Homeless occupiers
are trespassing in
city centre building,
says receiver
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1216/839385-homeless-protestdublin-apollo-house/
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homeless.
What we would like to do is bridge the gap Well be
asking people to volunteer, well be asking people to
get behind the idea. It is a radical idea.
Asked what the response would be if the group are
told by the authorities to vacate the building, Hansard
said: You appeal to the better nature of the
Government and Nama.
This is a NAMA-owned building. If everybody pays tax
in this audience, if anyone knows their stuff they know
that that is essentially our building. We are just going
to take it for a few months.
The action came about through conversations with
different artists, singers and friends over the year, he
told Tubridy.
buildings be available to
homeless services at
Christmas?
A derelict building in Dublin has been occupied by homeless activists
with a view to converting it into housing for the homeless.
December 16, 16
http://www.thejournal.ie/housing-crisis-nama-poll3143393-Dec2016/
The truly tragic thing is that RTE would never have this
story on the Late Late, let alone any news station if it were
not for the famous names.
If it were just the people, they might be battered by the
authorities by now and RTE out in force with yet another
"sinister fringe" report.
We are involved in an act of civil disobedience, Glen
Hansard tells The #LateLate Show as he talks about
#HomeSweetHome and #OccupyNama
https://www.facebook.com/RTEOne/videos/133246282682
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'peaceful'.
Garda are no longer at the scene, but are liasing closely with
the parties involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoX73Y5o-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk4scySuANo
Christmas.
The right to an adequate standard of living is a
critical right for all children including those who are
homeless and living in emergency accommodation.
The state must therefore ensure limited use of
emergency accommodation, similar to neighbouring
jurisdictions, like Scotland.
ISPCC is concerned that the progress made so far to
bring forward alternatives to emergency
accommodation in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan
on Housing and Homelessness is insufficient if the
target of ceasing to use emergency accommodation
for children by mid 2017 is to be met.
Urgent action is needed to heed the advice of the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this year,
to provide housing for homeless children, adequate to
their health and well-being."
The ISPCC marked Human Rights Day today calling on the
state to put in place minimum legal protections for homeless
children, including a right to temporary accommodation and
advice and assistance; the establishment of a programme of
alternative accommodation for homeless families to reduce the
use of emergency accommodation; and a commitment to
outlaw use of emergency accommodation for homeless
children from 2018 onwards.
The right to an adequate standard of living is recognised in
article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the October homelessness statistics from the
Department of Housing, there are currently 2,470 children
across the country who are experiencing homelessness, an
increase of 44 children in one month.
The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive further reported that
1,608 children are living in emergency accommodation in the
Dublin region.
These children are worse off than children who are homeless
in the UK because they have fewer legal protections,
according to the charity.
ISPCC chief executive Grainia Long stated: The figures of
children who are homeless continue to rise. 44 children are
newly homeless this month, more than a class full of children
that will have no home this Christmas.
The right to an adequate standard of living is a critical right for
all children including those who are homeless and living in
emergency accommodation.
The state must therefore ensure limited use of emergency
accommodation, similar to neighbouring jurisdictions, like
Scotland.
ISPCC is concerned that the progress made so far to bring
forward alternatives to emergency accommodation in the
Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness
is insufficient if the target of ceasing to use emergency
accommodation for children by mid 2017 is to be met.
Urgent action is needed to heed the advice of the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this year, to
provide housing for homeless children, adequate to their
health and well-being."
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/homeless-children-inireland-worse-off-than-those-in-uk-768054.html
new scheme.
The Children's Minister Katherine Zappone says families
registered as homeless in the Dublin region will benefit from
next month as part of 8.25 million euro in funding.
The Minister says school children can avail of the free
childcare outside of term time and it will be available for 50
weeks of the year.
The Department says other areas are also expected to follow.
BY CONOR HENEGHAN
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The question that has now arisen is: Was RTE, Late Late Show
Management and Ryan Tubridy aware that Glen Hansard was going
to say what he did. If none of them were pre warned, then Home
From Home have scored a massive coup on behalf of the homeless
in Ireland. However, if Glen Hansard's announcement was previously
cleared by RTE, then more very serious questions arise. Because
RTE, THE LATE LATE SHOW, RYAN TUBRIDY AND HIS BRAINWASHED
AUDIENCE OF SHEEP, DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE HOMELESS
IN IRELAND.
Civil disobedience! Another direct action that will hopefully lead to
change
Good on glen and every body that's involved fear play
Legend. Rattlin' the bars in the Dil, I'd say.
/react-text Why oh why did the late late decide to give away a
sponsored hamper to everyone in the audience just after Glen
Hansard was on? Surely said sponsor could have given it one of the
charities just spoke about instead of the audience
Absolutely right the people should take the power back
Well if they can take a building that rightfully belongs to us what's
stopping us taking back OUR country and get them gobshytes out of
the government
Its About someone took a stand! What should be illegal is the fact
nama leave these buildings unused, builders are buying back
, he said.
The building industry has stated the cost of and regulation
of construction needs to be reduced for more homes to be
built.
IRES has spent hundreds of millions of euro buying
apartments, mostly entire apartment blocks from banks
and Nama.
Last week it agreed to buy 203 apartments at Elm Park in
south Dublin in a deal worth 59m. It is also building
apartments in Sandyford.
HERE IS A LIST OF TDS WHO ARE LANDLORDS OR
LANDLADIES AND WHAT PROPERTIES THEY RENT OUT:
1 Kerry Deputy Michael Healy Rae: At least 8 properties:
2 farmhouses, a property in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, a rental
apartment in Killarney, Kerry, houses in Kenmare,
Castleisland and Killarney, and student accommodation in
Limerick.
2 Fianna Fils John Mc Guinness: At least 8 properties
and an interest in a nursing home: 3 rental properties in
Dublin, 3 in Kilkenny, a property in Limerick, a property in
Tipperary, and an interest in a nursing home.
3 Social Democrat, Stephen Donnelly: 2 properties:
Rental property in Beacon South Quarter in Dublin and in
Clara, Co Offaly.
4 Former ceann comhairle and Fine Gael TD, Sean
Barrett: Shareholder in 1 property: Barrett states he is a
shareholder in a company that owns an office block and
which is leased to a tenant.
5 Minister for Housing Simon Coveney: 1 property:
Hartys Quay, Rochestown, in Cork.
6 Agriculture Minister Michael Creed: Interests in 3
properties: Money invested in three addresses in
Macroom, Co Cork.
7 Fianna Fils Dara Calleary: 2 months rental income
from a property that he once lived in on Distillery Road in
Dublin but sold it in July 2015.
8 Fine Gael Galway East TD, Ciarn Cannon: An
executive director in a property company.
9 Fine Gaels Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 27 acres at
Ferbane, Co Offaly that has been rented out.
10: Waterford TD, John Deasy: 1 rental apartment in
Citywest in Dublin.
11: Pat Deering: 1 rental property in Rathvilly, Co Carlow.
12: Chief whip Regina Doherty: 2 properties: One in
Ashbourne Business Park and City Campus in Limerick.
heas people are the Mafia of Ireland when are ye going to realise
this they are in for them selfs and nobody else.
Greedy greedy bastards not happy with a big wage they have to pry
on the poor May they all rot in hell I'm sure there is a place for them
there
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I definitely do not agree with a lot of the fine gael labour party
policies but has everyone forgotten why we're in this situation in the
first place? Fine gael through history have always come back into
power and fixed the greedy idiotic decisions of fine fail and are then
attacked by the people for the decisions they HAVE to make
because of it! I cant believe fine fail popularity has even grown after
what they've done to us and unfortunately people are forgetting
that it was Fine Fail that put us here.
http://www.independent.ie//stephen-donnelly-heres-whythe-
Fianna Fil should have been buried for three decades
when Labour took over, their working class power base
destroyed by this present governments completing preexisting investigations into corruption in six local
authorities and launching new investigations into the
banking, insurance and estate agents, legal and financial
sectors.
Fianna Fil fully expected this kind of destruction of their
power base, yet that hasn't happened.
Phil Hogan shut down the planning investigations, an act
of infamy that will haunt him, of that you can be certain.
There has been NOTHING done to properly Tax, Monitor
and Regulate the banks - instead we have seen Noonan's
hand-wringing!
Labour seems to have a far-too-cosy relationship with Fine
Gael and the main Opposition Party Fianna Fil
All three "mainstream" parties are working to try to block
the advance of the Shinners and the Independents.
Now they are facing a new party - Direct Democracy
Ireland - and the cat is well and truly amongst the pigeons.
Some of the effects of this are noted above, but worse was
to follow.
The Fiscal Treaty has bound us to Europe.
Between the government and the courts the electorate
was denied the right to vote on the ESM, an
unconstitutional act in my opinion.
The ESM exposes us to unlimited calls on our exchequer
and should therefore have been put before the people.
These treaties taken together dilute our voting power so
that the next time the transnational banks engineer an
economic crash they will be able to drain unlimited monies
from the coffers of governments in Europe.
Is anyone still in doubt this was engineered by the banks
and their endgame is not yet reached?
All TD's Senators and MEP's urgently need to look at
section 1 of this "Troika" of Videos at 2:11
At that point, a banker states quite baldly: "What we also
did we engineered the World FInancial Crisis."
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
1 - the Admission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4B5f2ezEB8
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
2 - Christin Lagarde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHaCajsyAe0
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
3 - More Plans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6NY0s4AcQ
What has our government done do deal with this Global
Fraternity of Bankers who are quite clearly manipulating
events at national an international scale?
Far Reaching Legislation was rammed through in an
unconstitutional manner with no proper consideration of
the wording, unbalancing the relationship between
legislative, executive and judicial branches of Government
in the State and giving powers to the Minister for Finance
which do away with the checks and balances of a properly
formed Oireachtas.
This is the result of an irrelevant Labour Party! Our country
sold down the river!
We have an effective National Government where Fine
Gael is Fianna Fil Lite!
We have a disgraceful mess, where a Tax-Amnesty-Availing
Cosy-Cartel-Alleging "Best Friend of John Bruton" and now
"Independent" Michael Lowry is starting to smell like an
over-ripe Ham and still there is no investigation following
the Moriarty Tribunal!
http://www.independent.ie//michael-mcdowelldeafening-sile
It seems that Labour have sold the same shirt to two
different people once two often.
In Gilmore's own words, "They'll take the Schilling and
follow the Drum!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpr2zaXvb4M
In Meath, the electorate decided what to do.
Is there no hope then for the Labour Party?
While there's life, there's hope, but it looks like a fresh
direction is needed.
Labour's willing, even supine, participation in all things
Fianna Fil and Fine Gael has to end.
The Powers of the Minister for Finance and the ESM Treaty
must be revisited to prevent disaster in the future.
The government must face the two obvious facts - you
Michael McDowell:
Deafening silence from
government and RTE
In a major analysis, Michael McDowell
says publication of the Lowry Tapes is
a matter of huge public importance
Michael McDowell
PUBLISHED
07/04/2013
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Representatives of the Troika, from right, Ajai Chopra from the IMF,
Istvan Szekely of the EU, and Klaus Masuch from the ECB
1
Frances Fitzgerald, Heather Humphreys, Katherine Zappone, Mary
Mitchell OConnor and Regina Doherty were at the front of a photo
taken at Government Buildings when Enda Kenny unveiled his new
Cabinet
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If you went by recent celebrity interviews and the amount of
awareness campaigns out there, you would think Irish people are
still in chronic denial about how messed up they really are. But the
reality on the ground feels somewhat different.
who aren't shy about looking for help. They come from a
confessional culture and they already speak the language
of therapy. They've been into mindfulness for years (even
though they've never quite got the hang of it). They are
quite ready to blame their parents. They know full well
when their black dog needs curbing.
Most of my friends are quite open about the fact that
they're just hanging on by their fingernails and we'll
casually pass on therapist tips to each other the way
previous generations might have recommended a builder.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/themental-health-stigma-has-faded-but-quacks-arethriving-35284300.html
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able to remain.
The latest rough sleeper count for Dublin found 142 people
sleeping rough in the city centre. There have since been an
extra 145 beds opened, with the Housing Department
saying that there will be a bed for anyone who want one
this Christmas.
However, McGuinness said that the beds are nearing
capacity already, and the latest Simon rough sleeper count
found over 100 homeless people still sleeping rough.
The IHN, Home Sweet Home, and the various activists
and big-name celebrities associated with their cause
clearly believe there is a need and are taking direct action
in relation to homelessness.
Occupations have sprung up and fizzled out over the past
year, but with the time of year thats in it, and the big
names behind it, this one could have staying power
Kenny 'Is there many sleeping rough on the streets in
Dublin tonight Simon'
Coveney 'None!'
Kenny 'Good man. After five years you have solved the
problem?'
Coveney 'No, Enda, it wasn't me - Home Sweet Home
solved the problem! We failed the homeless'
John Connors
This has to be the best thing that has happened this year . Fair play
to all involved. If we , the people own the building, then we , the
people should decide how it is put to good use .
Shame on government look what ordinary people can get done by
standing shoulder to shoulder not like ye gobshits
Funny how the ONLY victims FF, FG, and the journalists involved care
about are victims that can damage the biggest threat to their as yet
uninterrupted governance of this state. This is a disgraceful charade
and an insult to the many thousands of victims of FF and FG
policies, which included throwing fuel on the troubles for decades.
Despicable maneouvres, and Stack's contentions don't hold up to
the mildest of scrutiny. He's a liar, victim or not.
Time to take our country back enough of these politicians
dictationing what they want not what the irish people want
The following is the full text of the Fine GaelFianna F il1 document which deals with the
mechanics of how a minority government
arrangement will work and broad policy
areas.
A Confidence and Supply Arrangement
for a Fine Gael-Led Government
This document outlines the Confidence and
Supply arrangement between Fine Gael2 and
Fianna F il to facilitate a Fine Gael-led
minority Government and the agreed policy
principles that underpin that arrangement.
Fine Gael will seek to agree separate policy
commitments in a broader range of areas
with other Oireachtas3 members as a basis
for a comprehensive Programme for
Government.
Core Principles for the Confidence and
Supply Arrangement for a Fine Gael Led
Government
reductions.
Base health expenditure on multi-year
budgeting supported by a 5 year HSE Service
Plan based on realistic, verifiable projections.
Introduce reductions in the Universal Social
Charge (USC) on a fair basis with an
emphasis on low and middle income earners.
Establish a Rainy Day Fund.
Maintain Ireland s 12.5% corporation tax, and
engage constructively with any measures to
work towards international tax reform while
critically analysing proposals that may not be
in Ireland s long term interests.
Industrial Relations and Public Sector
Pay
Recognise full implementation of the
Lansdowne Road Agreement in accordance
with the timelines agreed and recognise that
the recruitment issues in the public service
must be addressed as part of this Agreement.
Establish a Public Service Pay Commission4
to examine pay levels across the public
service, including entry levels of pay.
Support the gradual, negotiated repeal the
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public
Interest Acts having due regard to the priority
to improve public services and in recognition
of the essential role played by public
servants.
Tackle the problems caused by the increased
casualisation of work that prevents workers
from being able to save or have any job
security.
services.
Fully implement Vision for Change in the area
of mental health.
Strengthen and develop cross border bodies
and services in Northern Ireland9 and
implement the Fresh Start agreement.
Establish a Judicial Appointments
Commission10 to identify the most suitable
candidates for judicial office.
Ensure that local Government funding,
structure and responsibilities strengthen local
democracy.
Increase investment in the Irish language
Appendix 2
Fine Gael Fianna F il Agreement on
Water Services
Irish Water will be retained as a single
national utility in public ownership
responsible for the delivery of water and
wastewater services.
The Government will establish an External
Advisory Body on a statutory basis to build
public confidence in Irish Water. It will advise
on measures needed to improve the
transparency and accountability of Irish
Water.
It will publish advice to the Government and
give quarterly reports to an Oireachtas
Committee on the performance by Irish Water
on the implementation of its business plan,
with particular regard to:
= Cost reduction and efficiency
improvements;
Landlords of Leinster
House declare interests
Shane Ross
PUBLISHED
19/04/2015
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Leinster House
facilities with the blunt riposte that "I have my own car."
He additionally insists that his job as chairman of the Turf
Cutters Association "costs me money".
Independent TD Stephen Donnelly nominates himself as a
"landlord" with properties in Dublin and Offaly.
Is there something missing? The really embarrassing bit in
the register is deliberately buried at the bottom of this
piece. My own entry exposes me as one of the most
diabolically incompetent investors in the Oireachtas.
I reveal a shipwrecked share portfolio. My Irish shares
include two of the biggest dogs in the stock market, Bank
of Ireland and (dare I say it here?) Independent News &
Media. Both may be on the recovery trail today, but I
bought them back in the glory years to bolster my
pension.
They promised a steady stream of dividends to carry me
into my dotage. It is many years since they delivered.
They are worth less than 10pc of their purchase price.
Combined, they are worth less than 10 grand.
Some pension!
Apart from loss-making share investments the balance of
my savings are overseas, determinedly sunk into German
and US bonds which yield nothing - or give negative
returns. Even Michael Noonan abandoned such caution.
The only bright spot in my declaration last year is a gift of
a ticket for Wimbledon Centre Court. I promptly had a
blazing row with the donor. So there will be no repeat this
year.
Instead, I think I will follow the Labour Party punters into
property."
Never give up your home.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shaneross/landlords-of-leinster-house-declare-interests31153379.html?
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what set him on the road to riches. His gift from Fine Gael the first mobile phone licence, thanks to Lowry made
O'Brien a killing when he quickly flipped the company. He
pocketed 250 million and skipped off to Portugal to save
having to pay 55 million in Irish tax on his windfall.
O'Brien lost tens of millions on his investment in INM, but
it has brought him a big dividend in other ways. Control of
the media in Ireland (he also has a huge radio portfolio
through his Communicorp Group) has enabled him to wield
huge political power. He was instrumental in getting Kenny
and Fine Gael returned in the General Election. And when
Fine Gael are in power Dinny makes money. Loads of
money, Contracts awarded. Millions written off ...
O'Brien's media attack opposition politicians and give
endless free PR to his Blueshirt buddies. His media have a
particular hatred of Sinn Fin and in particular Gerry
Adams, and a relentless barrage of attacks before the
General Election resulted in the Shinners not gaining more
seats, possibly as many as a dozen. So O'Brien through his
wealth influenced the result of the election and he got his
protg Kenny returned (albeit with a weak hand).
Journalists working under O'Brien have to toe the line and
through fear of losing their jobs churn out relentless
propaganda on behalf of the government. Journalists like
Irish Independent editor Fionnn Sheehan and Kevin Doyle
Group Political Editor for Independent News and Media
obediently print their master's words. The government are
in thrall to O'Brien and so the present Communications
Minister Independent Blueshirt Denis Naughten will not
threaten O'Brien's media monopoly. In fact the media
baron is adding to his monopoly by snapping up more
regional newspapers. The media control will soon rival RT
and will reach every corner of the land like an octupus,
spouting out it's owner propaganda and promoting his
business interests.
The present government will not touch O'Brien.
We desperately need an alternative, a new national
newspaper that is not controlled by the wealthy 1% and
that can give a democratic voice to the majority of
citizens.
Would YOU support such a newspaper?
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no the only isis here are FG, ff, and LB and independent some of
them landlords in the dial who fleece and rob the irish people in
rents and if they cannot afford an extra 4% they will be on the
streets too, these bastsrd deliberately escalated the housing crisis
for their own greed and corruption we need them out, and every
build in Dublin is belong to the Irish people not the government we
own them and the banks we pay the taxes not these fucking fG, LB
FF and IND BUNCH OF MAFIA CORRUPT corrupt wankerS, THEY ARE
THE ISIS FRINGE NOT US,
IF COVENEY OR ANY TD OR NAMA TRIES TO THROW THE HOMELESS
OUT OF THE BUILDING IT WILL CAUSE A HUGE REVOLUTION IN
IRELAND AND AROUND THE WORLD WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF
OTHER COUNTRIES, IT WOULD BE AN EMBARRASSMENT ON EVERY
TD LANDLORD MAFIA FUCKERS IN THE DIAL AND KENNY TOO IF
THEY ALLOWED THIS, AND IF THE GARDA INTERFERED THEN THEY
TOO WOULD BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THEMSELVES AND IT
WOULD BE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
WHAT CORRUPT JUDGE WHOO WOULD TRY TO CHALLENGE THIS,
LIKE THEY DID ON THE PROMMISIONARY NOTES CHALLENGE TODAY
THE CORRUPT HIRE FF, FG, LB JUDGESSELECTED BY THESE FUCKERS
AND CORRUPT DPP MARIE WHELAN THEY WILL GET THERE COMINGS
SOON, IT IS CATCHING UP NOW, WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE ON THE
CASE PG THE JUSTICE WILL BE DONE SOON AND THE BASTARDS
WILL BE FOUND OUT
Brendan Ogle
Jim Sheridan and Brendan Ogle of Home Sweet Home at Apollo House at
Poolbeg Street, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Artists row in
And then theres Nama. The bad bank that was used to
socialise private debt and bequeath to us buildings all
over our landscape that lie fallow while people get
soaked, freeze, go hungry and even die below. Did I
think we could get access to a Nama property? We
owned it after all. It took about a week to find a
property we could access with some assistance and
eventually Apollo House, a former social welfare office
now closed down, came into our possession.
This has been tried before. The wonderful Irish
Housing Network and many other groups have been
trying to provide support for our homeless people for a
long time. But never in a Nama property and never
with such support. So a loose coalition was formed. We
all had different tasks, but the same motivation. Could
we arrive at a situation where nobody, at least in
Dublin, is forced to be without a roof and home for
this Christmas and beyond?
There are wonderful videos involving Jim Sheridan,
Glen and many others and I hope, we all hope, that
Human decency
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/brendan-ogle-why-we-haveoccupied-apollo-house-1.2908984
15/12/2016
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Housing Minister Simon Coveney. Photo: Gareth Chaney Collins
country.
Are all rental properties in Dublin and Cork
covered?
No. Properties that are new to the market (not leased at
any time in the previous two years) will be exempt as will
properties that have been "substantially refurbished".
What happens after three years?
A RPZ status ends automatically after three years meaning
the rent review process will revert to normal.
There were calls to link rent increases to the rate
of inflation. Why didn't Simon Coveney take this
approach?
The minister said a "blunt rent cap" would disincentive
landlords entering the market and "literally shut off supply
overnight". Noting that inflation for this year is negative,
Mr Coveney said: "We want landlords to make a
reasonable return."
How does this affect the 'rent certainty' measures
introduced last year?
The last government introduced measures that restricted
rent reviews to every two years. This rule will still apply
outside of RPZs. They will cease to apply in Dublin and
Cork but not until rents fall due for review.
What supply measures are being proposed?
The minister has announced a series of measures aimed at
kick-starting supply, including:
- Examining the tax/fiscal treatment of accommodation
providers
- Using publicly owned land for development
- Promoting a build to rent model
- Supporting credit availability for bringing vacant stock
into the private rental market.
- Exploring the potential to bring into use, for rental
purposes, vacant properties where owners move to a
nursing home under the Fair Deal scheme.
1
Minister Simon Coveney
mortgages/warning-coveneys-rentcap-plan-will-hit-investmentand-new-home-supply-35294507.html
be changed to 10.
The amendment was lost by 59 votes to 34
with 24 abstentions.
Earlier, the CEO of the Dublin Simon
Community said he has given the 'Home
Sweet Home' volunteers advice on health
and safety issues.
Speaking on RT's News at One, Sam
McGuinness said he believes garda will
support whatever is needed there, saying the
volunteers are hoping to provide some shortterm respite for homeless people.
He said the Dublin Simon Community
counted 99 people sleeping rough in the city
this morning and the organisers of 'Home
Sweet Home' are taking people off the
streets.
He said that once the heating is turned on
then the building will function to an extent
that it will be safer than sleeping in a
doorway or "some kind of dumpster".
Mr McGuinness added that he believes it will
"certainly be more secure than people
sleeping in a doorway, or sleeping in tents in
the park".
In the Dil this afternoon, Fianna Fil deputy
Ann Rabbitte said it is very easy for TDs to
leave Leinster House, walk down Grafton
Street and pass people "putting in a bed for
the night".
Earlier the AAA-PBP Deputy Richard Boyd
Barrett called on the Minister to put services
in Apollo House to enable the homeless to
Johns house once I can move into my house. John has the
timber floors picked out for his kitchen already.
I am back and forth to the house carrying out works on a
regular basis and at this stage the security seems to
ignore me I am there so often. Breda and John get security
warnings when they visit the site but I think they have
given up on me, he joked.
John Ryan Sr made local and national headlines last year
when he broke into his house, ignoring security warnings
he was trespassing on private property and risking the
wrath of AIB and its receiver, KPMG.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/man-finishes-offown-house-he-broke-into-on-ghost-estate-256336.html
half a decade.
The Bermuda-based company, which operates in 32
markets in the Caribbean and South Pacific regions, is
in the middle of a third year of earnings decline, with
its latest quarterly figures, to the end of September, hit
particularly by currency weakness in several of its
markets against the dollar.
Project Swan
Weakened
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/tech
nology/digicel-hires-consultants-to-helpin-massive-cost-cutting-plan1.2908705#.WFSMtlBoX9E.facebook
You could have him down for 2 days and would not still be cooked.
https://vimeo.com/19611
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FINE GAEL NEUTRAL ON IRELANDS NEUTRALITY please share!
In spite of all the obvious evidence that the EU project is falling
apart at the seams the UK pulling out, major opposition building in
France, Italy and even in Ireland its supporters and apologists
https://www.facebook.co
m/DSNsaysno/
Banks are repossessing more than four
family homes every day
12/12/2016
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he, like the rest of
the country, is absolutely appalled at a multi-million
euro "golden handshake" payment to the former Chief
Executive at Allied Irish Banks.
It emerged earlier that Colm Doherty received more
than 3m when he was forced out of the job last
November as part of the second bailout of AIB.
The current Government has said it is powerless to do
anything about the payment as it was made last
November.
The Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he cannot
guarantee that anyone else leaving the State-covered
banks will not be entitled to massive payments also.
The Taoiseach said there are questions to be answered
about the payment and other banking issues that
need to be uncovered by an Oireachtas inquiry, but
the Constitution needs to be changed to allow this.
Mr Kenny said: "I have no intention of going down a
road where this Oireachtas is going to be laughed
literally out of court in attempting to pursue
something that it cannot do because of the
inadequacy of its powers."
pre-tax profits of
1.9 billion
Updated / March 3, 2016
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Fianna Fil leader Michel Martin and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at
an event together last Christmas. Photo: Maxpix
children began carrying loaves of bread, cash-and-carrysized boxes of tea bags, and packets of teacakes into
Apollo House.
They bought them with their birthday money, her fella
said, as the face-painted children handed over loaves of
bread to the waiting volunteers.
This family were but some of the many Irish citizens who
have donated food, clothing, and supplies to the new
residents of Apollo House, since news broke about the
homelessness initiative, last Friday.
The takeover of a vacant building in the capital, to house
the homeless, was organised by the Irish Housing Network
and various trade unionists, but under the name Home
Sweet Home.
Home Sweet Home has been so inundated with donations
that they issued a statement, last night, saying they were
ceasing taking any more, for now.
However, anyone wishing to donate a bed is to contact
them through their Home Sweet Home Facebook page.
At the time of writing, the initiative had raised 80,000 on
a GoFundMe page and its petition to government had
nearly 20,000 signatures.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan
d/act-of-highly-organised-civildisobedience-and-humanity435818.html
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MOVEMENT: Liam O Maonlai. Photo: Arthur Carron
http://www.independent.ie/irishnews/news/homeless-families-eyeother-empty-offices35302564.html#comments
They haven't mentioned #Alan in the list but they also
support #HomeSweetHome.....
Activists who have taken over a vacant building in Dublin
city centre have said they are considering taking up
residency in other #propertiesheldbyNama - despite being
111SHARES
BYALANA FEARON
18:24, 10 DEC 2014
Dangerous' bogeyman
Brendan Ogle on a long
leash
ESB union chief has kept the blackout
until after the Troika's exit, writes Jody
Corcoran
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PLANNING TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS: ESB group of unions'
secretary Brendan Ogle
Levi jeans are also out, apparently, even though Levi is the
apparel of the working man. These were the concerns
going through Brendan Ogle's head the day he drove
around a woman from Cuba, over here to commemorate
the Bay of Pigs.
The people of Cuba: "They don't have big cars, they don't
have houses with two or three acres of landscaped gardens
around them, they don't wear Levi jeans and Dolce &
Gabbana underpants at least the ones that I met!"
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/a
nalysis/dangerous-bogeymanbrendan-ogle-on-a-long-leash29798888.html
SimonCoveneyamong
ministerslistedaslandlords
OthersareMinisterforForeignAffairs
CharlieFlanaganandMinisterfor
AgricultureMichaelCreed
MinisterforHousingSimonCoveneyisone
offiveFineGaelministersofthe14whosit
atcabinetwholistedthemselvesaslandlords
intheDilsregisterofmembersinterests
for2015.
Others are Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie
Flanagan and Minister for Agriculture
Michael Creed
If TDs being landlords, hiking up rents making people
homeless is not a conflict of interests then what is, its a
disgrace and a joke, no member of Dail or their immediate
family should be a landlord, and anyone running in
elections should not be allowed if they are landlords
The game is rigged! Making and voting on policies that suit their big
fat pockets just fine, conflict of interest? surely not? they wouldn't
do a thing like that now would they. Corrupt BASTARDS!
a month.
apartments in Sandyford.
HERE IS A LIST OF TDS WHO ARE LANDLORDS OR
LANDLADIES AND WHAT PROPERTIES THEY RENT OUT:
1 Kerry Deputy Michael Healy Rae: At least 8 properties:
2 farmhouses, a property in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, a rental
apartment in Killarney, Kerry, houses in Kenmare, Castleisland
and Killarney, and student accommodation in Limerick.
2 Fianna Fils John Mc Guinness: At least 8 properties
and an interest in a nursing home: 3 rental properties in
Dublin, 3 in Kilkenny, a property in Limerick, a property in
Tipperary, and an interest in a nursing home.
3 Social Democrat, Stephen Donnelly: 2 properties:
Rental property in Beacon South Quarter in Dublin and in
Clara, Co Offaly.
4 Former ceann comhairle and Fine Gael TD, Sean
Barrett: Shareholder in 1 property: Barrett states he is a
shareholder in a company that owns an office block and which
is leased to a tenant.
5 Minister for Housing Simon Coveney: 1 property:
Hartys Quay, Rochestown, in Cork.
6 Agriculture Minister Michael Creed: Interests in 3
properties: Money invested in three addresses in Macroom,
Co Cork.
7 Fianna Fils Dara Calleary: 2 months rental income
from a property that he once lived in on Distillery Road in
Dublin but sold it in July 2015.
8 Fine Gael Galway East TD, Ciarn Cannon: An
executive director in a property company.
9 Fine Gaels Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 27 acres at
Ferbane, Co Offaly that has been rented out.
10: Waterford TD, John Deasy: 1 rental apartment in
Citywest in Dublin.
http://irelandtodaynews.
com/index.php/housingminister-simon-coveneyis-a-landlord/
Minister Coveney Launches Pillar 2
under Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan
for Housing and Homelessness
New up-front Part V funding to be provided from next year 140M
New Repair & Leasing Scheme - 6m to kick-start in 2017 140M to 2021
New Buy and Renew initiative - 25m in 2017 rising up to
50m in 2018
13m additional funding for extra 750 voids 2,000 to be
delivered this year
On site 2016; 117 separate build projects delivering 1,600 units; this
includes 76 separate LA projects delivering 920 units, & 41 separate
Approved Housing Body (AHB) build projects delivering 680 units .
Mr. Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and
Local Government, today (6 October) outlined the details of Pillar 2
Accelerate Social Housing under Rebuilding Ireland an Action Plan for
Housing and Homelessness. The Action Plan was launched on 19 July and
today the Minister will outline the detail and progress on Pillar 2 since the
launch. Minister Coveney was joined by Ministers of State, Damien English
and Catherine Byrne at Charlemont Street where Dublin City Council is
engaged in a major Private Public Partnership (PPP) scheme which will
supply homes for families on the housing waiting list. Earlier on he had
visited an award winning social housing scheme on Maxwell Road,
Rathmines.
Rebuilding Ireland sets ambitious targets to double the annual level of
residential construction to 25,000 homes and deliver 47,000 units of social
housing in the period to 2021, while at the same time making the best use
of the existing housing stock and laying the foundations for a more vibrant
and responsive private rented sector
There has been much commentary around the fact that last year
Local Authorities only built 75 homes, even though we provided
accommodation for 13,000 families through all the delivery
programmes. We will increase on that this year as we roll out the
Action Plan and we will deliver homes for families on the waiting
lists. Local Authorities have recruited 500 necessary staff and they
now have a pipeline of projects that will be delivered as quickly as
possible. Since May I have approved projects with a value of 150m,
which will see 800 homes delivered. In 2017 local authorities &
approved housing bodies will provide 5,050 homes through building,
buying & leasing. This will be a major kick start to the delivery of
47,000 social homes at a cost of 5.35 billion by the end of 2021
which is a key priority for me, said Minister Coveney.
Some 47,000 social housing units delivered by 2021, supported by investment
of 5.35 billion
Accelerated Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) delivery [12,000 in
2016 and 15,000 in 2017]
Mixed-tenure developments on State lands and other lands
Establishment of a dedicated Housing Delivery Office and Housing
Procurement Unit
Extensive supports for Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies
e.g. AHB Innovation Fund
Streamlined approval processes (e.g. Part 8 planning)
Housing for specific groups: meeting the needs of the vulnerable.
Increased target for Housing Adaptation Grants drawdown [increasing from
8,000 in 2016 to 10,000 in 2017]
Pilots to support innovative design and housing solutions for older people
Extending National Housing Strategy for People with Disabilities beyond
its 2016 timeframe out to 2020
If we are to achieve two of the core objectives of the Action Plan
increasing supply to a minimum of 25,000 homes per annum and
providing the 47,000 social homes committed to we must speed up the
mechanism and processes that lead to housing delivery. I have outlined
today details of some of the new mechanisms which will assist in the early
delivery of homes for families on local authority waiting lists. We need to
change our mindsets and think outside the box when it comes to
delivering homes. I have also recently published outline legislation to
speed up the planning process.
Earlier today I visited an award winning social housing scheme on
Maxwell Road off the Rathmines Road. This scheme is a great
advertisement of how we can integrate social and private housing. But its
not just integration that we should be concerned with. We need to future
proof our social housing schemes for all eventualities and this should
include family types, elderly people and people with disabilities. Officials in
my Department are examining how we might better deal with these
matters in larger social housing schemes, ended Minister Coveney.
The Plan is ultimately focussed on delivering more homes for the people who
need them. It includes over 80 separate actions structured under five main
Pillars of concerted actions right across Government.
- Address Homelessness,
make them available to those on the waiting list. Similarly, approved housing
bodies may have an interest in this, particularly where they are seeking town
centre locations for specific housing needs.
There is real challenge in this work: renewing vacant and derelict premises
can be difficult and costly. Councils also target the provision of social housing
where it is needed and will always have regard to sustaining a good mixed
tenure within communities.
While recognising these challenges, there is also great opportunity in this
The Dil will try again on Friday to pass legislation to put rent
certainty in place before the New Year.
Last night a problem emerged when an error was noticed in
the legislation that would have resulted in rent rises of 8% in
the pressure zones of Dublin and Cork rather than the
intended 4%.
Housing Minister Simon Coveney moved quickly to move an
amendment to ensure the issue was fixed.
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"If you haven't had a rent review for two years, there is the
potential for the first time you get a review in a rent pressure
zone, a higher-than-4% figure, because if it's 4% per annum,
you haven't had a rent review for two years, then it could be an
8% increase," he said.
"And that, of course, was never the intention, and so this is a
drafting error that I'm anxious to correct."
Earlier
A deal has been reached over the Government's plans for rent
caps, which will see the 4% limit for rent increases remain in
place.
The so-called rent "pressure zones" where the cap looks set to
be extended to include Limerick, Galway and Waterford cities
in the new year, as well as towns in Louth, Meath, Kildare and
Wicklow, under a compromise deal reached with Fianna Fil.
The Dil debate on the measures was postponed for almost
five hours while the agreement was reached, following rows,
crises and the possibility of a vacuum leaving renters open to
any hike in the new year.
The legislation will not automatically extend the rent pressure
zones beyond Cork and Dublin - but minister Simon Coveney
is committing to look at other cities and towns in the Dublin
commuter belt early in the new year.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said the 4% cap
was far too high.
In the Dil he said: "You are doing nothing except pandering to
the insatiable greed of landlords, of vulture funds and property
speculators, and care nothing about the tens of thousands of
people who literally fear for the roof over their head."
He also called it a "dity deal between Fianna Fil and Fine
Gael".
A debate on the legislation will continue until 10pm tonight and
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/latest-housingminister-to-re-examine-rent-certainty-legislationovernight-768757.html
Having amended his bill and then amended his amendment, Simon
has been asked to go home and come up with an amendment of his
amended amendment. Poor lad couldn't even understand his own
'rent cap' formula, has been left spinning in circles, and now faces
the serious prospect of having to withdraw his bill. Just as well we're
not relying on FF to provide opposition and scrutinize legislation,
because they're clearly not up to the task, much less serious about
it.
Domhnaill
resigns from
Fianna Fil after
ethics breach
Updated / Dec. 15, 2016
senator/
of Ireland, AIB and Irish Life and Permanent. He has presumably taken a
hiding in this traditional safe haven. He is on safer ground with his shares in
food star Aryzta, Smurfit Kappa, CRH, Kingspan, FBD Holdings and an AIB
Investment Fund.
His share portfolio is beefed up by joint ownership of 175 acres of land in the
plush pastures of Dunboyne and 50 acres in Drumree both in his native
Meath. Investments as dull as ditch water maybe but Richard is likely to
have fewer sleepless nights than Willie.
Richard was lucky enough to receive a gift of a watch from the Saudi Arabian
government. He very honourably gave it up to the Exchequer, as Fine Gael
people do.
Another Fine Gael cabinet minister, Simon Coveney, may not be as loaded as
Richard but it could be a close-run contest for the richest man in the
Cabinet.
Both have inherited huge wealth but Coveneys declaration reveals less
than Richards. He describes himself as a landlord with a single property, but
admits to holding shares without being specific. Coveneys more opaque filing
merely reveals that his shares are part of Irish Wealth Managers and that he
has an interest in the Coveney Family Investment Club c/o Davy
stockbrokers. Mmm.
Coveneys reluctance to reveal more detail makes it difficult to judge who is
the canniest financial punter in the Cabinet, but the investment decisions of
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan have caused a few raised eyebrows.
While Bruton has shown confidence in Irish equities, Noonan does not like
investing in Ireland.
During the worst days of the crisis he headed for Germany and sunk much of
his wealth into low-yielding German bonds. Last year he decided to go for
gold, traditionally a hedge against high-risk equities.
He has diversified further by investing in US Treasury stocks and benefited
from the strong dollar. He does not list a single Irish stock in his eight-strong
portfolio. Apart from 20 acres of mixed pasture attached to my residence he
holds no property either.
Noonans patriotic instincts and bullishness about the economy do not extend
to his choice of personal investments.
Noonans fellow Fine Gael TDs are still deep into farms and property, many
with huge portfolios. Backbenchers Frank Feighan (with 10 listed properties);
Aine Collins (with seven); and Alan Shatter (with 14 jointly owned) lead the
field of property fans.
Lucinda Creighton, leader of the recently launched Renua party, has returned
a clean sheet indicating little reserve firepower in the event of emergency
financial injections for the new party. However Creightons husband, Paul
Bradfords Seanad declaration shows that all is not lost. Bradford owns 55
acres of farmland in Mallow, Co Cork and lists shareholdings in AIB Euro
Bonds and AIB Global Bonds.
Their party colleague, Terence Flanagan, declares a half share in a house in
Blanchardstown but gratuitously volunteers (in case Lucinda comes calling?)
that there is massive negative equity on the property.
More real wealth seems to exist in the Seanad than in the Dail.
Independent Senator Feargal Quinns portfolio stretches to three pages with a
global diversification that will undoubtedly safeguard the former supermarket
kings wealth.
Elsewhere long-time Fine Gael Senator Paul Coghlan declares a formidable
combination of shares, directorships and land both in Ireland and overseas.
Another Independent, John Crown, admits to four occupations apart from his
Seanad activities. The cancer doctor is an oncologist, a medical practitioner, a
medical lecturer and yet another landlord.
Indeed the Independents entries make fascinating reading. Newcomer
Michael Fitzmaurice responds to the question about whether he has received
any travel facilities with the blunt riposte that I have my own car. He
additionally insists that his job as chairman of the Turf Cutters Association
costs me money.
Independent TD Stephen Donnelly nominates himself as a landlord with
properties in Dublin and Offaly.
Is there something missing? The really embarrassing bit in the register is
deliberately buried at the bottom of this piece. My own entry exposes me as
one of the most diabolically incompetent investors in the Oireachtas.
I reveal a shipwrecked share portfolio. My Irish shares include two of the
biggest dogs in the stock market, Bank of Ireland and (dare I say it here?)
Independent News & Media. Both may be on the recovery trail today, but I
bought them back in the glory years to bolster my pension.
They promised a steady stream of dividends to carry me into my dotage. It is
many years since they delivered. They are worth less than 10pc of their
purchase price. Combined, they are worth less than 10 grand.
Some pension!
Apart from loss-making share investments the balance of my savings are
overseas, determinedly sunk into German and US bonds which yield nothing
or give negative returns. Even Michael Noonan abandoned such caution.
The only bright spot in my declaration last year is a gift of a ticket for
Wimbledon Centre Court. I promptly had a blazing row with the donor. So
there will be no repeat this year.
Instead, I think I will follow the Labour Party punters into property.
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Ireland 2016...
"Hi I found this posted in local Super value in Waterford
absolutely heartbreaking that our own citizens are living
like this"~Adrian Dalton.
We need to change this...
Heart-rending to say the least. We're all citizens of this island. We all
have a responsibility for those more unfortunate than ourselves.
Donate to Peter McVerry, Simon, Vincent DePaul.....
Minister open to
occupiers staying in
Apollo House 'if
appropriate'
Cormac McQuinn Twitter
PUBLISHED
19/12/2016
Katherine Zappone
http://www.independent.ie/irishnews/politics/minister-open-to-
occupiers-staying-in-apollo-house-ifappropriate-35305356.html
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'If the tax rate was the only attraction, they would not be hiring
thousands of workers here.' Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire
be carried out.
In yet another instance, the managing director issues a
complaint about guests continuing to smoke illegal
substances in the room despite being warned not to.
The director also reports issues with a young man in the
premises abusing people passing by the premises.
As the number of homeless people has risen, the DRHE
has increasingly resorted to using private hotels and B&Bs
to house people, a highly costly and unsuitable approach.
The Government has committed to stop using hotels and
B&Bs to house homeless families by the middle of next
year. However, experts have expressed doubt over whether
this deadline is realistic.
'Anti-social behavior and verbal abuse among complaints
over Rugger Bugger wealthy guests in our finest most
exclusive hotels'
http://www.thejournal.ie/homeless-complaints-3138612-Dec2016/
R
R
The Plan
The Housing Action Plan aims to all but end the use of
hotels by next year through a number of measures
involving building and acquiring new houses and
increased rental support schemes.
In terms of housing, the plan has two approaches to
bringing more units on-stream:
An expanded rapid-build housing programme (which aims
to deliver 1,500 units).
A Housing Agency initiative to acquire vacant houses
(which aims to deliver 1,600 units).
Rapid-Build Housing was first floated last year as a quick
Despite this, the Action Plan states that 200 units will be
built by the end of the year, 800 by the end of 2017 and
another 500 in 2018.
They have a credibility problem in terms of delivering
rapid-build housing, said Mike Allen.
We dont have any evidence to believe that they can deliver
it this time.
There is no mention in the plan of how any of the issues
that face the previous rapid-build housing programme will
A man in a sleeping bag lying outside a Spar shop on South George's Street
in Dublin
Source: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Rise
He said: For whatever reason, we see an increase in the
number of people presenting every Christmas as homeless.
Its one of the busiest times of the year and its also one of
the most dangerous.
These people are vulnerable and a lot would be newly
homeless around this time.
Its also the middle of winter and a time where its the
coldest part of the year so the risk of hypothermia and
other illnesses increases.
Dublin City Councillor Daith De Roiste has also weighed
in on the homeless crisis, laying the blame at Housing
Minister Simon Coveneys doorstep.
De Roiste said this years capital budget for DCC only
provided for 1,500 new houses across the capital, nowhere
near enough to address the crisis.
He said:
This is once again like sticking plasters on gun shot
wounds.
There is not enough money being made available to deal
with this crisis. To have thousands of people spend
Christmas alone or afraid or sleeping on the streets in the
freezing weather is nothing short of disgraceful. Im calling
on the Minister to actually sort this.
A number of campaigns have been launched to help those
homeless over the Christmas period.
One of those is Focus Ireland.
http://www.thejournal.ie/homeless-christmas-focus-ireland-3081540Dec2016/
it is taking our true irish artists and the irish people to do the
goverments job and im very proud of u good people
HomeSweetHome
Please Share and Invite your friends
If you want volunteer or show support for Apollo House
this is the meeting...
http://
fb.me/7qSPhQcoB
6:18 PM - 18 Dec 2016
Michael O'Brien is an Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor for
Beaumont Donaghmede, and he wants the shelter
approved.
Mr O'Brien said: "I've submitted an emergency motion
commending the action of the activists and celebrities
who have seized Appolo House and rendered it habitable
for rough sleepers, and furthermore calling for the
injunction to be lifted from the activists.
"Practically speaking also, the motion is calling for Dublin
City council to recognise the time served there by the
rough sleepers, from the point of view of their progress on
the priority homeless housing list."
long.
"So I am very happy to applaud them and I am very happy
to say that they are doing a service to homeless people
and I wish them well."
principle
Even if ALP were legally relevant (which Ireland does not accept) the
Commission has failed to apply it consistently or to examine the
overall situation of the Apple group.
decision
The Commission has manifestly breached its duty to provide a clear and
unequivocal statement of reasons in its Decision, in relying simultaneously
on grossly divergent factual scenarios, in contradicting itself as to the
source of the rule that Ireland is said to have breached, and in suggesting
that Ireland granted aid in relation to profits taxable in other jurisdictions.
Ireland failed to
justify selective
treatment of Apple -
EU Commission
Updated / Dec. 19, 2016
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1219/
839841-government-eu-apple-taxruling/
Its funny how the government takes issue with the apple ruling but
they bow down to most of the other EU tax rulings. We should take
our shre in that 13 Billion (Note I do not say we are owed all of the
money just some of it) and use it for what the country needs.
If you have a good case, you don't need 150 pages to explain it.
They should call for the Commissioner to resign and the holding of
an investigation into the competence and/or independence of
Commission staff. The key points were in the "terse statement".
(They are 1. The Commission exceeded its powers 2. They interfered
in national sovereignty, 3. They misunderstand Irish law and 4. They
wrongly interpreted the EU's own rules.) The 13bn would be nice,
but it's nonsense that we can just take it from a MNC, because the
EU wants to damage our attraction as a green field site.
Brendan Ogle said works are ongoing to increase the capacity of the building.
Source: Sam Boal
"So contact your local TD, contact your senators and tell
them when they've had their turkey, when they've had
their ham and when they've had their jolly Christmas, to
get back into the Dail and enact some legislation that's
going to resolve this homeless crisis - that's what we pay
them for.
December 17th , 16
Among the many people that I spoke to last night was Seamus, just
another lost soul since being made homeless only last week. I spoke
to him for about 20 minutes. He is not on drugs or alcohol YET, but
life on the streets changes many people. Just like thousands of
others he told me that he lost his job when Fianna Fail and Fine Gael
jointly decided to rescue the banks and their wealthy friends and in
doing so, impoverished the people they were elected to represent.
Not only did he lose his job, his wife and 3 children left their family
home last year due to the constant pressure of not having enough
to survive on Under severe pressure from Bank of Ireland, Seamus
could no longer stand up against this huge financial gangster and
sadly he decided last week that surrendering the keys to his home
was his only option He told me that he was advised to do so by a
Personal Insolvency Practitioner, having first sought help from
MABS Their advice was that at the age of 44 he could now start
again... Seamus was a well spoken man and asked if he could join
the queue for something to eat.
17 December 2016
Two images here. 2 images of people queuing for food in Dublin, one
was taking yesterday and the other during the civil war in 1923....
And FG says keep the recovery going...
http://www.thejournal.ie/apollo-house-3148000-Dec2016/?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoX73Y5o-Y
'This is our Ireland. Not the government's, not the banks' Terry
McMahons speech. Brilliant and powerful!
Dec 18, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYyvMfkU2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYyvMfkU2g
It's about time people had there say now let's get all the muppets in
government too get there heads out of there holes and open there
eyes to reality in Ireland today this would never been tolerated in
the sevenths or eighths have we returned too 1900 it makes me
think so
http://www.newstalk.com/Eircode-HSE-glitches-postcodesIreland-Paul-Bell-SIPTU-boycott-ambulance-service
body.
The advert also carried no departmental or government
agency endorsement, which is the normal procedure with
public service or safety adverts.
Despite this, Naughten did approve the advertisement,
commenting in the Dil in November of this year:
While there is no requirement to reference the
Department in a public service announcement, my
Department did approve the public awareness campaign.
Public service
Three complaints about the advert were made to the
Advertising Standards Agency of Ireland (ASAI); one from
Lynn Boylan of Sinn Fin, one from the Irish Fire Services
Association, and one from a consumer who runs a location
codes business.
In a statement to the ASAI, Eircode said that the advert
never made any claims about saving lives, and that it was
filmed with the full consent and approval of the HSE, the
National Ambulance Service (which featured in the video)
and the Department of Communications.
The draft conclusion of the report found that the
advertisement strongly implied that you needed an
Eircode to access the National Ambulance Service, and
that they would reach you quicker if a code was given.
But in their final ruling, the ASAI found that although
Eircode is a private company, they fell within the remit of
a public service announcement, and so no sanction would
apply to them.
During the Executives investigation of the case,
information subsequently came to light which would
indicate that, by virtue of stakeholder interest in Eircode,
the marketing communication concerned was, effectively,
a public notice; public notices are excluded from remit of
the Code of Compliance (Section 2.3).
FactCheck: Has Eircode really saved lives?
In a statement to TheJournal.ie, Lynn Boylan said that the
ruling went way beyond her original concerns about the
advert.
17 December 2016
This is the cabinet that sat back during a housing crisis.
This is the cabinet that allowed countless to die on the streets.
This is the cabinet that controls empty NAMA buildings.This is the
cabinet that started eviction proceedings against the homeless
currently occupying Apollo House, and want to send occupants back
to the cold streets
SHAME!
Thousands of People
Have Pledged Their
Money and Time to
the Home Sweet
Home Campaign
Over 2,000 people have raised
nearly 100,000 in just four
days.
It's only been a matter of days since Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=oBIEwvHJxVo&feature=share
If you needed more proof that the Government is fuelling
the homelessness crisis in order to artificially inflate the
market for housing then look no further...
"Officials in the Department of Finance warned Mr Noonan
that the introduction of the help-to -buy scheme could
drive up the price of homes and land, and they
recommended against its introduction.
According to documents released to The Irish Times under
the Freedom of Information Act, Mr Noonan told officials
the idea of the scheme was to drive up demand in order to
make it more attractive for developers to build homes for
first-time buyers."
They knew that this scam that Noonan was introducing in
the budget was to appeal to the greed of the wealthy land
owning/developer classes at the expense of the poor and
they are turning the homelessness crisis into a investment
opportunity for "The Market".
They didn't care about the effects on the poor and that is
why initiatives like Home Sweet Home are needed more
than ever.
The moment you try to use "The Market" to solve social
issues, then you have lost.
The vultures have taken over the rotting corpse of Ireland
and will bleed her until she is dead and they will feast on
the remains until there is nothing left.
And that is who you have running the country...
Fiach Kelly
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan overrode the concerns of his officials to
introduce an income tax refund scheme for first-time house buyers.
Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Apollo House, a vacant Nama-owned property in Dublin city centre has been
taken over by concerned citizens, including high-profile personalities and is
being used to accommodate homeless people. Video: Bryan O'Brien
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because few, will call them out on it; and because they
can often afford to cover it up. The middle class are the
biggest facilitators of gross wrongdoing by those truely
yielding power. And the middle class, for the most part,
must work far too hard; to survive themselves. So, on the
blame game goes; Right stays right , and Left stays left;
and 'wrong' .... And apparently never the twain shall meet.
By 2012 I was struggling even more, and terrified of
various institutions; determined to get me and my son out
of our small home. I then became a target of the most
scurrilous of predators. And then, following a few short
weeks of desperate suicidal thoughts, I collapsed. What
followed, was a year of the most intense head pain,
tinnitus so loud I couldnt hear people speak, and total
lack of co-ordination. I went into physical rehab and I
went into myself; and I slowly healed. Due to my illness I
received apology letters from a bank, as well as a general
decline in pressure; but it was far too late. And those old
friends never reappeared Well,.. save for when one or
two sent me bills for 'help' I'd received. Heartbreaking;
that was.
I was told I would never be allowed to work on my feet
again. So as soon as physically strong enough, I applied to
do a degree in law. And perhaps for the first time in my
life, I got nothing but high honours.. Most probably
because my artistic right brain hemisphere was affected
by the illness. Or maybe I was always clever; as opposed
to what extremely nasty nuns and others convinced me of.
Going to college though, lost me the Mortgage
supplement Id had, so I had put our little home on the
line. I was tired and felt damn sorry for myself.
And then one of my middle class childhood acquaintances
messaged me here on Facebook. She was homeless and
living in a four to a room hostel; paying 100 per week to
be there. Terrified and oppressed, she was not allowed to
live with her only child till she had a home. She asked for
help; so we met in Dublin after thirty odd years, and made
a plan. It took three months and the help of several people
to end her misery. And now she and her child are together
in a lovely home, both happy; both functional. And in fact
those who helped this girl were all 'middle class'. In fact
that is the very reason it all worked so fast.
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the takeover.
"To occupy a building and try and put
supports together in an ad hoc way is not the
way to deal with this," he told Parliament
Friday. The Department of Housing, Planning,
Community and Local Government told CNN
the government has provided enough
accommodation for all of the city's homeless.
"Everyone who needs a bed can get a bed,"
the department said.
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This building was taken over peacefully last night.. my
sincere compliments to the Garda seargent that had to do
his job, a real gent.
2:18 PM - 16 Dec 2016
Civil disobedience
Activists including Academy Award-winning
songwriter Glen Hansard argue that because
the building is linked to the National Asset
Management Agency (NAMA), it "belongs to
the Irish people."
NAMA is a "bad bank" that was set up by the Irish
government to acquire bad loans that property
developers and other debtors were unable to pay
after the collapse of the Irish economy in 2009.
The accounting firm Mazars, the receivers
appointed to the property by NAMA, disagree with
Hansard's assessment and on Friday their lawyers
sent a letter to the activists asking them to vacate
the building.
"Anyone who pays taxes in Ireland knows that
buildings like Apollo House that are part of NAMA
belong to Irish people," Hansard told CNN. "This is
an act of civil disobedience, we shouldn't have to do
it but the government is not doing its job to house
the homeless."
"We're sick of walking down streets in Dublin seeing
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The government had better step back from this one, we had a
similar thing happen in Cork some years ago, but we didn't have the
level of enforced homelessness back then so it didn't gain traction,
FG attacks 'outrageous'
threat to impose new
charges on tenants
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Demands: Fianna Fil housing spokesman Barry Cowen. Photo:
Tom Burke
http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/propertymortgages/richard-curran-rental-plan-is-just-cream-on-the-cake-formany-landlords-35302447.html
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Fintan McNamara from the Residential Landlords Association.
Photo: Mark Condren
home.
So far this year, fewer than 12,000 have been completed not even half the number needed to meet demand. A more
telling figure is the number of properties on which work
has commenced. So far this year, that stands at fewer than
10,000.
Unless the other strands of 'Rebuilding Ireland' start to
bear fruit, rent controls may end up being in place for
longer than the three years envisaged. And that could pose
a bigger headache for government than a tantrum from the
landlord sector.
http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/propertymortgages/tantrum-from-landlords-ignores-need-for-reforms-inrental-sector-35301110.html?
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but between the Royal Canal and the Grand Canal there
are 260 people tonight homeless.
What we would like to do is bridge the gap Well be
asking people to volunteer, well be asking people to get
behind the idea. It is a radical idea.
Tubridy.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/ourview/nohomes-for-2470-of-our-children--un-report-shames-ourcountry-434751.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan
d/free-childcare-for-families-affectedby-homelessness-435551.html
Patsy McGarry
Irelands crowded Charity Sector
The Revenue Commissioners recognise 8,194 non-profit
organisations as charities for tax-relief purposes and, to date,
12,500 are registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority. Is
Ireland's charity sector over-crowded?
Tax relief
Overall, there are 18,539 non-profit organisations in
Ireland, including non-government, non-commercial
organisations that file regulatory returns with the
Companies Office, the Charities Regulator, the
Revenue Commissioners, the Housing Agency and/or
the Department of Education.
I am showing the FACTS that needed showing and the money that is
given to these charities with little return is a concern in these harsh
times. The Government are not going to ever provide the housing
you speak of so while people are freezing their butts off in the
street, those wages are still being paid. It's about time these
charities worked within the realms of reality. The charities are
spending nearly every cent they get from the government on
wages. They are not spending the money as it was intended. The
State gave these eight charities money for the homeless. Not for
pay scales for an entity that isn't in the public sector under a
government department...
There are far too many charities "claiming" to help people while
enriching the ceo's etc. Any money I can give to homeless people I
do directly i.e. I hand to the person on the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Ujy_tv0IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpw6wAz7rU
enormous disquiet.
"In 2009, Fianna Fil passed legislation claiming to regulate the
charities sector but never implemented it.
"In February 2012, my colleague Padrig Mac Lochlainn TD
asked Minister Shatter why the Act was not being
implemented.
"In his reply Minister Shatter said: 'It was not practicable to
proceed with the full implementation of the Act at this time
given the financial and staffing resources that would have been
required, hence the implementation of the Act has been
deferred.
"His reply further claimed that 'it is not the fact that the
charities in Ireland are devoid of oversight.'
The Sinn Fin Leader asked the Taoiseach to support Sinn
Fein's Bill to implement all provisions of the Charities Act 2009.
He also asked if the Taoiseach agreed with him that the refusal
thus far by the CEO at Rehab to declare her salary and the
general lack of transparency about remuneration, where it
exists, needed to be addressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4HDdqoQ6Oo
http://www.threshold.ie/
/threshold_signed_accounts_2015_cr
Don't like others showing up the absurdity of the situation.
And quite a cozy one it seems to be too...
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/frmcverry-i-applaud-apollo-house-sit-in-but-its-not-the-solution-tohomelessness-768980.html
Forgery Act, 1913. [3 & 4 GEO. 5. Cu. 27.] ARRANGEMENT
OF SECTIONS. Section. 1. ... Privy Seal of ireland.
Forgery of the following documents, if committed
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1913/27/pdfs/ukpga_19130
027_en.pdf
UK & Ireland Charity Committee Donation Request Form
Thank you for your interest in AES UK & Irelands Charity
Committee. Charitable organisations
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lity/charitable/AES-Charity-Committee-Application-Form.pdf
Enough is enough. This NAMA made homelessness scam
has to end. It's not good enough to make the Irish People
suffer so that property prices remain at above Celtic Tiger
levels so NAMA can sell them to vulture funds.
It has got to stop. People are dying because of this
deliberate government policy...
https://apps.charitycommissionni.org.
uk/Library/pdf_documents/ccniannual-report-2009-2010.pdf
Why We Occupy
This morning.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams (right) and
Sinn Fein Dublin City Councillor Chris Andrews
join Dean Scurry , from Home Sweet Home, to
lend their support to the occupation at Apollo
House.
This is a practical but mostly symbolic act to
focus attention on the issue and shame the
government into meaningful action, well done
to all involved.
Well done in your fight against the thatcherite
fascists in government.
Apollo House is central, functional and safe.
Theres toilets and running water, kitchenettes
and enough offices for privacy. Well done to
Home Sweet Home for this initiative.
RTE have listed this under their Entertainment
section. Im speechless
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Mary Carolan
Promissory notes
year meant the appeal, which opened before a sevenjudge court, finished last April before a six-judge court
with judgment reserved.
Her lawyers argued a statutory power to charge the
central fund is unconstitutional unless that charge is
prequantified or there is an outer limit on it.
It is unconstitutional for the Minister to charge a
public fund under statute unless the imposition of the
charge has been considered in advance by the Dil,
they also argued.
Her counsel John Rogers SC said Ms Collins, as a
citizen and TD, had a right to have the democratic
process adhered to when the Minister decided to
provide the promissory notes.
Relinquished control
Maybe she should take her case to the European Court of Justice?
After all, it's not permissible for a government to step in and offer
financial support to an ailing company no matter what their status
is. A number of leading European airlines went bust in the early
2000's which would have previously survived because of state
interventions. Why was an exception made to bail out a broken
bank?? The EU is as corrupt as our own lot in Dail Eireann...
New world order Rothschild banks get their way with the freemason
judges says it all..
Debt till death debt grip for the poor.. billions for the rich bankers!
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Mazars said the campaigners were trespassing and asked
them to leave with immediate effect. In the
circumstances we have no option but to refer the matter
to our legal advisers to pursue the appropriate course of
action, they said.
The Irish Housing Network and the Home Sweet Home
campaign said they had no plans to leave and were last
night seeking volunteers with first aid training, CPR skills
or experience working in homeless or community services
to get in touch.
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Dropped down to Apollo House, best wishes to all the
occupiers. There is a housing crisis in Dublin.
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latest figures.
The daily bus service to Corpus Christi National School in
Moyross is supported by school principal Tiernan ONeill
and financed through local community fundraising
activities.
The driving force behind the service is Moyross parish
priest Father Tony ORiordan who said the service costs up
to 5,000 to run annually.
For children on the bus that are homeless, we dont know
where home is going to be. That can be stressful for an
adult but can you imagine how an eight or 10-year-old
feels, he said.
I know of one situation where a baby was born, released
from hospital and that child began its life at four days old
in a hotel room with his older sister. We have had one
family that has been in 14 different locations within a
three-week period, he continued.
The Moyross school bus begins its school run at 7.30am
and brings up to 15 school children living in emergency
accommodation in the city to school every day.
Principal of Corpus Christi National School, Tiernan ONeill,
said, What the bus enables us to do, is provide a safe
environment for the children during the day and ensures
that their journey to school is a smooth one.
The bus service is used by up to 15 children throughout
the day, during a number of runs. We fund the service
through a number of activities including bag packing and
cake sales, he continued.
According to most recent figures, 197 people, 57 of whom
are children, are in emergency accommodation in
Limerick.
Three hostels in Limerick city are accommodating men
and women; St Patricks Hostel, Thomond House and
McGarry House; all of which are operating at full capacity,
and have waiting lists.
Suaimhneas, which provides emergency accommodation
for families, is also operating at full capacity.
According to Fr ORiordan some homeless families need to
find emergency accommodation themselves.
The children dont have a permanent address and may be
sleeping in their relatives, grandparents or uncles and
aunts, he said.
the last ten hours and just this morning a woman got the
train from Galway just to drop in two bags of supplies.
There are people staying here who would have been
sleeping on the streets last night.
Leonard said the group has put out a call for skilled people
including medical staff and tradespeople to help and this
has been answered across the board.
There has also been a donation of 30 mattresses by
Mattress Mick.
dozens of others from many groups and from none, helped to get
the citizen-operated homeless accommodation up and running.
The first residents were in their rooms within a couple of hours of
the NAMA building being taken over. This is people power in
action. Video shot by Damien Farrell
This picture is from one of the rooms from the nama building which
was took over by homeless protesters, what you guys think? Better
than the streets anyway!
Lawyers for Apollo House receivers said they cannot allow property
be unlawfully occupied
The row between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael shows no sign
of abating. As Simon Coveney seeks to cap rent rises in
Dublin and Cork at 4% a year for the next three years Dec
15th 2016
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moment there are 2,500 children thats what there is, she
told the Dil.
During the debate on the Governments rent strategy, the
plight of those currently sleeping rough in Apollo House
in Dublin City was raised repeatedly.
Meanwhile landlords have threatened to impose a raft of
new charges on tenants in response to the Governments
decision to cap rents in Dublin and Cork.
A group representing 5,000 property owners says they will
consider pulling out of State-sponsored rental schemes,
impose a charge to collect keys to a unit and oblige tenants
to fund letting costs.
In a statement, the Irish Property Owners Association
claims its members are hard-pressed and victims of the
newest onslaught on the sector.
The threat comes after Housing Minister Simon Coveney
announced a limit whereby landlords could only raise
rents by a maximum of 4pc every year in Dublin and Cork,
but the measures are likely to be extended to all cities and
some commuter belt towns.
The IPOA has sought legal advice, and says that rent
controls were deemed unconstitutional in the early 1980s.
The measures being introduced are so severe that rents
will not cover costs and devaluation of property will be
significant all adding to the exit of the Investor, it said.
It is notable that Government and those demanding
change are oblivious to the huge burden that all these
measures will have on the tenants and the loss of supply.
Among the actions include withdrawing from State
sponsored rental schemes, introducing a key payment at
handover, passing on service charges and imposing a
registration fee.
It has also threated to introduce car parking fees, passing
on letting costs, call out and key replacement costs and
asking tenants to contribute towards the cost of the
property tax.
http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/propertymortgages/dil-backs-simon-coveneys-rental-control-plan35300054.html
Olivia Kelly
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court has
sought to rely on a judgment of Mr Justice Peart in the High
Court in
Dublin where he objected to hearsay evidence of debts. It
seems clear that
there is no equivalent of the Civil Evidence Order in the
Republic of
Ireland and explains the judges remarks. We do have a Civil
Evidence
Order. Parties are entitled to put in an affidavit and to rely on
hearsay
evidence with the court assessing its weight. In any event even
before the
Civil Evidence Order an affidavit with the deponent saying that
they had
been informed of something by a named person and that they
believed it was
true, in appropriate cases for the smooth administration of
justice was
received. This is often done, particularly in originating
summonses cases.
But it is important that it is done carefully and conscientiously.
The
system only works if both the lawyer is scrupulous in what the
lawyer says
and the client is honest in what they inform the lawyer.
[4] Here we have the situation where, it is now admitted that
paragraph 15
of the affidavit of Miss Valerie Gibson, solicitor, for the lender
Santander plc of 6 December 2012 is simply wrong. Mr Carlin
would say it is
a lie and at the moment I do not see how that can be clearly
gain said; it
is not Ms Gibsons lie but when somebody told her that the
mortgage had not
been assigned they were either being careless or untruthful
and at this
precise moment in time I do not know which is the case. And
what is more Mr
Carlin asserts and Mr Gibson with his customary and proper
candour does not
dispute that the Master was told that there had been no
assignment here and
so that these issues did not arise. So the Order of the court
below was
obtained improperly by a misrepresentation to the court,
misrepresentation
put by the advocate for the lender to the Master and put in a
sworn
affidavit.
[5] That would be a serious enough state of affairs but at the
review of
this matter before me when listing this case for hearing today,
19
September, the plaintiff was given an opportunity and was
directed on that
occasion on 10 June to serve a rejoinder affidavit to Mr Carlins
affidavit
and that of Miss Hughes within two weeks from that day, that
is by 24 June.
They did not do so. They did not serve affidavits, as far as the
court was
concerned, until 16 September, only three days before the
hearing. Mr
Carlin says he got an unsworn, undated draft two days before
that. That is
utterly unsatisfactory. It shows a disregard for the orders of the
court
which would be disreputable in a litigant in person and is
equally
disreputable on the part of a large commercial enterprise
which should know
better. No satisfactory excuse is offered for that.
[6] Furthermore, the matter is worsened by the disregard by
Santander of
the decision of Mr Justice Horner in Swift Advances plc v James
and Maureen
McCourt [2012] NI Ch. 33. He on that occasion, on behalf of
Swift did have
in court an official of Swift giving oral evidence before him
because this
or a similar point had been raised there. Of course it failed
ultimately
because Mr White, the Risk Manager of the plaintiff, gave
sworn testimony
that he had made the checks and the plaintiff had not sold the
loan of the
McCourts to any third party and it had not legally nor,
apparently in that
case, equitably assigned the charge, which the judge accepted
and so Swift
succeeded.
chosen, as he put
it, to ask me to strike out the order, and as he put it, I think not
unreasonably in the circumstances, on the basis of untruth.
Now the court
of course recognises that everybody makes errors. They should
not make them
on affidavits, but at this point I do not know whether this was
an honest
error, I do not know whether somebody was playing fast and
loose with the
truth. No explanation of the earlier misstatement is given in
the new
affidavit. What is certainly the case is that Santander have
been in breach
of the directions of the court, they have been in breach of the
judgment of
Swift v McCourt and they obtained an order by at least, as I
said earlier,
misrepresenting the facts to the Master.
[9] In all those circumstances I conclude therefore that the
appeal should
succeed and I reverse the order of the Learned Master, making
it clear that
this is no reflection on him, and strike out the order for
possession.
STATUTE LAW REVISION (PRE-1922) BILL 2004
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2004/5004/b5
0a04s.pdf
Letter Mr Donald Tusk President of the European Council
Digital_Single_Market_a_chance_for_investment_growth_and_jo
bs_in_Europe_-_Taoiseach_
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/News/Government_Press_Rele
ases/Digital_Single_Market_a_chance_for_investment_growth_a
nd_jobs_in_Europe_-_Taoiseach_.pdf
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/News/Taoiseach's_Press_Relea
ses/Digital_Single_Market_a_major_opportunity_to_boost_the_d
ynamism_and_competitiveness_of_the_European_economy_
_Taoiseach.html
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Do
cuments/Tax/dttl-tax-alert-ireland-101414.pdf
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) IN IRELAND | 08
INTERNATIONALISATION | 09 ... Irelands tax regime does not
involve the filing of consolidated tax returns.
http://www.idaireland.com/docs/publications/Taxation_in_Ir
eland_2015.pdf
Ireland announces
improvements to IP
regime and phasing
out of "double Irish"
http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Ireland_announ
ces_improvements_to_IP_regime_and_phasing_out_of_dou
ble_Irish/$FILE/2014G_CM4787_Ireland%20announces
%20improvements%20to%20IP%20regime%20and
%20phasing%20out%20of%20double%20Irish.pdf
http://www.mhc.ie/fs/doc/publications/mhctimes/Tax_Sandwich.pdf
WILLIAN FRY AVIATION FINANCE THE IRISH SECTION 110
REGIME
http://www.williamfry.com/docs/default-source/practicearea-industry-sector-brochures/aviation---the-irish-section110-regime.pdf?sfvrsn=2
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015
/563454/IPOL_IDA(2015)563454_EN.pdf
Intellectual Property Tax Treatment in Ireland
http://www.offshoreinvestment.com/media/uploads/Hickso
n.pdf
Irish Government announces Budget 2016 and publishes ...
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nt_announces_Budget_2016_and_publishes_update_on_int
ernational_tax_strategy/$FILE/2015G_CM5877_Irish
%20Gvmt%20announces%20Budget%202016%20and
%20publishes%20update%20on%20international%20tax
%20strategy.pdf
Ireland to exploit intellectual property. ... friendly taxation
regime. ... the effective rate of tax on income from
intellectual property.
http://www.techlaw.org/wpcontent/uploads/2010/07/Arthur-Cox-Choosing-Ireland-asa-location-for-your-Intellectual-Property-Trading-CompanyOct-10.pdf
Generating cash from Irish R&D ... R&D. Allied to the new
Intellectual Property (IP) tax regime introduced in 2009 ...
provisions of Irelands R&D tax credit regime.
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/pharma-life-sciences/pdf/irishrd-activities.pdf
Complex issues Simon Coveney, a roof over head is not complex, it's
a Human right, scrap the four increase for landlords, year on year
successive Irish coalition governments, you outh to be ashamed of
yourselves
Theyre trying to kick out our homeless from Apollo House! Court
order! Shame! Scum!
Damien Dempsey & Glen Hansard
Homelessness in Ireland has been going on too long.
Were going to end it
This is the link to the fb page for 'Home Sweet Home Eire'Volunteers
needed for so many things - you don't have to be able to go to the
building, helping online and in other ways too
Comment from a judge today in a certain court to a man on his
knees facing homelessness;
' How can you come in here claiming you have a right to your home
when you borrowed the money?'Mans eyes fell to the floor with
embarrassment.
Pity he was too traumatised to answer back with the following;
"We have more right to property than anyone in Europe because the
state used our money without permission to bail out the banks and
now the state is compliant with the banks in trying evict the people
who bailed them out'.
Just remember. All homelessness begins with the bank.
Never EVER leave your home.
There is NOWHERE to go.
Feed your family.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/homeless-children-inireland-worse-off-than-those-in-uk-768054.html
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Prevent homelessness
Eliminate the need for people to sleep rough
Reduce the length of time people experience homelessness to less
than six months.
Meet unmet housing need of people experiencing homelessness
through an increase in housing options that delivers affordable,
accessible housing with supports as required.
Ensure the delivery of services for homeless people that meet their
needs, produce the sought-after, person-centred outcomes
required and can demonstrate their effectiveness through
McNamara says.
In many cases just contacting the owners and telling
them of an intention to compulsorily purchase the
building has had the desired effect, according to Clegg.
A lot of people came back very smartly, and either
rendered the building nonderelict or put it on the
market, but there were others where there was no
engagement. We contact the reputed owners, but there
can be title difficulties, or owners out of the country, or
in nursing homes. Theres almost always a human side
to these cases.
The 15 million fund will be a rolling one, and as
buildings are sold on it will be replenished. The council
has initially concentrated on easy wins buildings that
dont cost too much and are quick to shift but it plans
to tackle more ambitious projects if the fund is
successful, Clegg says.
We would like to buy more historic buildings, but we
need to be prudent: you could blow the entire city
budget acquiring these properties.
Fears about the regulatory burden associated with
listed buildings deters buyers from taking them on,
particularly when it seems that complying with
standards such as disability access can conflict with
conservation requirements.
Recognising this, the council cut some of the costs of
bringing listed buildings back into use three years ago.
Where an owner is making an application for the
change of use of a building often the case when a
vacant protected structure is being brought back into
occupation they are exempt from development levies.
An owner extending a protected structure will pay only
half the standard development contribution.
But are the incentives sufficient? The low uptake of
schemes seems to indicate that buyers are still
cautious.
http://www.irishtimes.com/lifeand-style/homes-andproperty/dublin-s-emptybuildings-could-they-solve-thehousing-problem-1.2899765
Fine Gael labelled the landlord party
due to homeless crisis
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Juno McEnroe
TD Mick Barry calls Taoiseach Enda Kenny 'the leader of
the landlord party', as residential rents continue to rise
http://linkis.com/shr.gs/vkbRP
http://linkis.com/shr.gs/vkbRP
Labour Leader Brendan Howlins description of a DoNothing Dil is now a mild analysis of the current chassis.
The system is dangerously lurching from one populist
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es/default/files/UN%20SR%20Right
%20to%20housing%20report
%202016%20eng.pdf
Saoirse Ronan
this.
chronic homelessness.
BY TONY CUDDIHY
https://www.joe.ie/news/this-dublin-pub-is-sendingfood-to-apollo-house-and-wants-other-businessesto-do-the-same/571043?
utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=onsite_share
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Housing/H
omelessness/CSOs/28102015-FEANTSA.pdf
Focus Ireland has actively participated in this
process, both in our own right and as part of
FEANTSA (the European network of homeless
organisations.
That may or not be the case but one of the real reasons
for the homeless crisis is the lack of affordable housing
because the Fine Gael/Labour Government built
virtually no local authority homes during their time in
office.
Mr Daly and Mr McDonagh ... how about you call off your
expensive lawyers and donate a few thousand Euro from
NAMA's billion Euro budget to buy beds, blankets and
breakfast cereals. And If nobody dies on the streets this
Christmas you might feel you have done some good (for
once).
Remember Jonathan Corrie this Christmas
Sarah Bardon
Frances Fitzgerald: will tell Cabinet that 520 refugees will have been resettled
in Ireland by end of the year. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Relocation system
regulations. The government says Ireland has no right to tax nonresident companies for profits that come from activities outside the
country.
"Look at the small print" on an iPhone, Noonan said after the EU
released its ruling in August. "It says designed in California,
manufactured in China. That means any profits that accrued didn't
accrue in Ireland, so I can't see why the tax liability is in Ireland."
In the coming weeks, the EU is expected to publish details of the
Maxforce investigation. At about the same time, Apple will likely lodge
its own appeal in the EU court. Though Apple will have to pay its tax bill
within weeks, the money will be held in escrow, and the issue will
probably take years to be resolved.
This story is based on interviews with dozens of officials from the EU,
Ireland, and Apple, though most didn't want to speak on the record
discussing sensitive tax matters. A Maxforce representative declined to
make Lienemeyer available for an interview. Ireland's Office of Revenue
Commissioners (the equivalent of the American Internal Revenue
Service) says it can't comment on specific companies.
Lienemeyer began assembling the Maxforce in late spring of 2013 with a
mandate of scrutinizing tax policies across Europe in search of any
favoritism. Direct subsidies or tax breaks to court a specific company are
illegal in the EU to prevent governments aiding national champions. His
first hire -- the person who would oversee the Apple probe -- was Helena
Malikova, a Slovak who had worked at Credit Suisse Group in Zurich.
He quickly added Kamila Kaukiel, a Polish financial analyst who had
been at KPMG, and Saskia Hendriks, a former tax policy adviser to the
Dutch government.
As the four initial members began their investigations, they got a head
start from a U.S. Senate probe of the tax strategies of American
multinationals. The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations said Apple shifted tens of billions of dollars in profit into
stateless affiliates based in Ireland, where it secured a tax rate of less
than 2 percent.
At 9:30 a.m. on May 21, 2013, senators gathered in Room 106 of the
Dirksen Office Building. Included in the evidence presented that day
was a 2004 letter from Tom Connor, an official at Ireland's tax
authority, to Ernst & Young, Apple's tax adviser. Connor's question: A
unit of the tech company hadn't filed a tax return; Was it still in
business? E&Y responded two days later that the division was a nonresident holding company with no real sales. "There is nothing to return
from the corporation tax standpoint," E&Y wrote. The Senate exhibits
didn't include Connor's response if there ever was one.
At the hearing, Arizona Republican John McCain castigated Apple as
"one of the biggest tax avoiders in America." Democrat Carl Levin of
Michigan peered over the glasses perched on the tip of his nose and said
Apple uses "offshore tax strategies whose purpose is tax avoidance, pure
and simple." Crucially, though, Levin told the crowded room that under
U.S. law, there was little the panel could do to force Apple to pay more
tax. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook passionately defended the
company's actions, telling the senators "We don't depend on tax
gimmicks."
The Senate revelations raised eyebrows at the Maxforce's office in
Madou Tower, a 1960s high-rise in the rundown Saint-Josse
neighborhood of Brussels. Three weeks after the Senate hearing,
Lienemeyer's team asked Ireland for details of Apple's tax situation. The
Irish tax authorities soon dispatched a representative carrying a
briefcase filled with a bundle of bound pages. The Irish could have
simply sent the material via e-mail, but they were cautious about
sharing taxpayer's information with the EU and have a ground rule to
avoid leaks: never send such documents electronically.
While the Irish government remained bullish in its public statements,
saying Apple hadn't received any favors, behind the scenes tensions
were rising. Through the summer of 2013, the Finance Ministry assured
government ministers that the EU investigation would amount to
nothing, according to people familiar with the discussions. But those
assertions seemed less confident than earlier communications. There
was a sense that Apple had worked out its Irish tax position in a vastly
different era, and no one remembered many details of the negotiations
decades earlier.
In 1980, the four-year-old company -- the Apple III desktop had just
been released -- created several Irish affiliates, each with a different
function such as manufacturing or sales, according to the Senate report.
Under Irish laws dating to the 1950s designed to shore up the moribund
post-war economy, as a so-called export company Apple paid no taxes
on overseas sales of products made in Ireland.
To comply with European rules, Ireland finally ended its zero-tax policy
in 1990. After that, Apple and Ireland agreed that the profit attributed to
a key Ireland-based unit, the division discussed in Tom Connor's letter,
be capped using a complex formula that in 1990 would have resulted in
a taxable profit of $30 million to $40 million.
An Apple tax adviser "confessed there was no scientific basis" for those
figures, but that the amounts would be "of such magnitude that he
hoped it would be seen as a bona-fide proposal," according to notes
from a 1990 meeting with the Irish tax authority cited by the EU. The
equation didn't change even as Apple began assembling the bulk of its
products in Asia.
Ireland and Apple started to make changes a few months after the
Maxforce began looking into their tax relationship. In October 2013,
Finance Minister Noonan announced he would close the loophole that
let stateless holding companies operate out of Ireland. The EU says
Apple changed the structure of its Irish units in 2015.
As the Maxforce stepped up its probe in June 2014, Irish Prime Minister
Enda Kenny was wooing potential investors in California. At a San
Francisco event to promote Irish entrepreneurs, Governor Jerry Brown
budget, Ireland didn't want the windfall, saying the ruling was flawed
because the country hadn't given Apple any special treatment. The
decision sparked a political crisis as left-leaning members of Enda
Kenny's fragile minority administration saw a potential bonanza for
taxpayers that the world's richest company could well afford. Even as
Noonan toured television studios vowing to appeal the decision,
independent lawmakers demanded that Ireland take the money.
Facing a potential revolt that could bring down the government, Kenny
and Noonan eventually bowed to demands for a review of the country's
corporate tax system. But they said they would fight the case, and on
Sept. 7, Irish lawmakers overwhelmingly backed the motion for an
appeal.
Officials from Lienemeyer's team and other EU offices say they have
gathered tax information on about 300 companies, looking for what
they deem to be favorable treatment by governments across Europe.
While they don't expect all of those to yield payoffs as hefty as that from
their investigation of Ireland and Apple, they say a worrying number
require the kind of maximum force that the Maxforce can apply.
"We focus on outliers where you're looking at something that is off the
radar screen," Lienemeyer's boss, 50-year-old Dutchman Gert-Jan
Koopman, who is in charge of state-aid enforcement at the EU, said at a
Brussels conference in November. "If you're paying a fair amount of tax
then there is absolutely nothing to worry about."
UniCredit
UniCredit is Italys largest bank, a major
international financial institution with strong roots
in 22 European countries and an international
network represented in approximately 50 markets,
with 9578 branches and more than 162,000
employees. In the Centre and East of Europe,
UniCredit operates the largest international
banking network with around 4,000 branches and
outlets. UniCredits Irish branch managed 27bn at
the relevant time. UniCredit is said to be Italianconservative in much of its ethic. It was in the
news when its renowned head Alessandro Profumo
resigned in September 2010 arising out of a feud
with UniCredits main shareholders who have been
uncomfortable with the banks growing need to
raise capital, especially from Libya. The Libyan
Investment Authority, a sovereign-wealth fund,
recently increased its holding in UniCredit by 0.5%
to 2.6%, while the Central Bank of Libya holds an
almost 5% stake in the bank.
UniCredit operates on its own and through a
labyrinth of subsidiaries.
UniCredits 96.35%-owned subsidiary, Bank Austria
Austrias largest bank has a twenty-five
percent stake in another Austrian bank, Medici,
which is in big trouble. In mid-December a
complaint against Ms Sonja Kohn was part of a
fusillade of litigation filed in federal bankruptcy
court in Manhattan by Irving H Picard, the trustee
trying to recover $40bn in assets for victims who
sustained cash losses in the enormous Ponzi
pyramid fraud perpetrated by the worlds most
famous fraudster, Bernie Madoff. The trustee
contends Bank Medici was nothing more than a
conduit set up for the sole purpose of funnelling
money to Mr Madoff. It is alleged Sonja Kohn
issues they care about and that matter for the country.
That is what good politics should be about. This could go
in the future but once you empower people it is hard to
revert back. TDs who have never been remotely happy
with their role on the sidelines are unlikely to allow a
return to the dysfunctionality that was a feature of previous
majority governments.
Tax avoidance by vulture funds costs the State between
10bn and 20bn, according to Donnelly. He offers
treatment of this issue as an example of the new politics
in action. He raised it at leaders questions a few months
ago but the government had no position on it. He then
talked to politicians across Fianna Fil, Labour and even
Fine Gael and prepared a policy paper on the issue.
Fianna Fil then announced they would not vote through
any Finance Bill that did not address the issue.
Michael Noonan presented an amendment to address the
issue. Donnelly prepared a technical note on the
amendment, pursued the matter further through the new
Budget Oversight Committee, and met Michael Noonan
privately on the matter. A further amendment was put
forward by the Minister. Another detailed technical note
issued from Donnelly: further change was promised.
This new-found efficacy, he allows, may reflect the fact
hes a more experienced legislator in his second mandate.
However, his case is that this is the new politics in action.
This would not have happened in the last Dil. TDs can
now raise issues, co-operate across party lines, and have
some confidence that the executive will respond. TDs have
greater and more varied forms of leverage open to them.
Extraordinary in a democracy
that there's so little interest in
this
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
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Whistleblowers Testify in EU
Parliament
by Golem Xiv on NOVEMBER 17, 2016 in LATEST
Now if you listen to the press this is all the fault of Brexit. Which
strikes me as misdirection. Its trying to suggest this is a political
problem created by the great unwashed and nothing to to do with
greedy investors speculating and lenders lending into a bubble
market.
The fact is that RBSs share price has been sliding from early 2015
onwards. Which is interesting since until the end of
2015 commercial property prices were still going up and the
experts just a few months ago in December 2015 quoted in the FT
were assuring us that,
Real estate prices expected to remain high for years.
and that,
Pricing has gotten very high but theres a reason it has gotten
highand we think it can stay high, said Bob Sulentic, the
companys [CBRE the worlds ;largest property service company]
chief executive. Theres a wall of capital out there that wants to be
invested in real estate.
So let me recap property prices were fine and going to stay fine
said the experts in property. But all the while certain people
were selling their bank shares and trying to get out. And then what
do you know. Suddenly those property prices were revalued down
by 17% overnight.
And if it was just RBSs share price we might just think it was one
bad apple. But Credit Suisse shares are trading at their lowest
ever. While Deutsche bank, with more derivative exposure than
any other bank, except perhaps JP Morgan is, .. well you decide.
I seriously doubt those banks are tumbling to such crisis levels just
The Ring Mistress of the New Politics has not always had
an easy ride of it.
She has had to crack the whip on her fellow ministers to
make sure the Government has enough numbers in the
Dil to win votes.
Hers is a largely procedural role and she has been solid
enough in the face of hideous chaos on a daily basis.
5/10.
1
Finance Minister Michael Noonan
http://www.independent.ie/opin
ion/editorial/the-banks-mustpay-for-what-theyve-done35300906.html
Debate
27:00 - H-H Index for Germany
29:00 - The Creation of Boom-Bust Cycles
30:50 - Credit for GDP transactions - financial circulation credit
(Asset Credit Creation)
36:10 - The East Asian Economic Miracle Credit Guidance
40:30 - Abuse of Power by the Bank of Japan A warning to All
47:10 - The German Banking System
51:20 - Hampshire Community Bank Project - Local First CIC
56:40 - Dangers of Centralise Money creation & allocation
(Central Banks)
58:00 - The Alternative to bailing out the Banks. Ireland - what
the Central Bank could have done
1:00:00 - Japanese Bank Restructuring 1945-47 and 1990s
1:06:00 - Iceland
1:06:50 - Activities of the ECB
1:07:00 - EU war on Community Banks
1:08:30 - Negative Interest Rate Policy of the ECB, favours
speculators to the detriment of the economy
1:10:25 - War on Cash
1:11:45 - Lower Interest Rates do not stimulate the economy
1:14:00 - Quantity of money not the price of money that drives
the Economy Bank credit for GDP transactions drives the
economy
1:15:45 - Current Central Bank War on Cash
1:19:30 - Princes of the Yen, Central Bank Truth Documentary
on YouTube (247,000 views, Nov 2016) & Book plus other
Publications.
Prof Werners Books on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Werner...
Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary
https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY
1:20:00 - Irish Government - Stop the issuance of Government
Bonds - 12% Vs 4%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MechH0ebs_c&feature=youtu.be
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be
taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly
belongs "
The little guys steal a pack of sausages and get sentenced to 3 months in
prison.
The big guys fiddle millions, even billions and are told it is unacceptable
and are at worst fined.
The laws are inadequate and biased to say the least.
banking.... laws are "spider webs through which the big flies pass and
the little ones get caught".' That sums it up. Very well said! I think
recently on VB show it was said by a FG TD that we pay a few bn in
interest alone on our national debt, a big part of which is the repayment
on the cited bank billions. The real cost, as the author states is the moral
bankruptcy of both these and our governing institutions. Moral hazard
lies squarely on their shoulders as people occupy buildings to merely get
out of the cold.
Don't expect any action from Old Baldy. he is the banks puppet.
The group Home Sweet Home took over the building late on Thursday
night to house the homeless
December 16, 16
http://www.thejournal.ie
/hansard-nama-buildingcivil-disobedience3144670-Dec2016/
1
Niamh and George O'Hara, from Ballymun, who are 'taking a step
back' after nine years of marriage to get out of the rental market
The couple lost two night of sleep due to stress but have
now opted to leave their home.
After three days of talking about it and being stressed
weve decided that in order to go forward in our life we
actually have to take a step back and weve decided to
move back in with my dad for a year.
Hopefully that year will give us time to get back on our
feet because its just a kick in the teeth, she said.
Weve to walk away from the home that we have taken
care of for the last six years, she said.
Were just not willing to be at the hands of greedy people
anymore.
Read more: The rent row explained: What it
means for renters, landlords, Coveney and the
minority government
Both Niamh and her husband are from Ballymun but they
will now have to move to Cabra, leaving their community
behind.
Hopefully its just for a year, she said.
The pair plan to try and secure a mortgage to buy a home
after saving for a year when they live with Niamhs dad.
Were six years in our house this week. When we took it
on the rent was 775, it just goes to show you how much
things have spiralled out of control, she said.
Were nine years in this trap and its probably our own
fault that at the beginning we didnt take time out to live at
home for a year. The last thing youre thinking as a
married couple is live with your parents.
But its come to the crunch now and something has to
give.
When the 4pc was introduced on Tuesday we talked
about it [fighting for a lower increase] for a while but after
two days of no sleep and the distress we were put through
I decided its time to just get out of this, she said.
Its time to say I give up Im going to better myself and
my life.
Trying to put an increase of 40pc on any one person or
couple at one time is appalling I think, he said.
1
Amy Molloy, who says the 4pc rent cap proposed by the Housing
Minister is not going to solve the problem. Photo: Tom Burke
The impact.
"Hopefully that year will give us time to get back on our
feet because its just a kick in the teeth, she said.
Weve to walk away from the home that we have taken
care of for the last six years, she said.Were just not
willing to be at the hands of greedy people anymore
FINANCE Minister Michael Noonans curt nothing-to-seehere dismissal of the Oxfam charge that Ireland is one of
the worlds leading tax havens does him, our Government,
and this society no credit.
So eirigi ire have taken over apollo house 'big office block on tara
street empty 8 years ' and mattress mick has filled it with
mattresses and they've taken in all the homeless around Dublin ..
deadly
the building.
"It's scandalous that there are people dying and freezing on
the street," singer Damien Dempsey told reporters outside the
building.
Co-founder of Home Sweet Home, trade unionist Brendan
Ogle, told The Irish Times the group had identified the Namamanaged property in the city centre and was staging a
citizens intervention in the homelessness crisis.
Around 30 mattresses were delivered to the building by
Mattress Mick.
Figures in November showed the level of homelessness in
Dublin rose by over a third in the past year.
The latest report from the Dublin Region Homeless Executive
has revealed there were a total of 5,146 adults and children in
emergency accommodation last month - a 35% increase in the
last year.
The figures surrounding homeless families in the city make for
even starker reading - with 1,026 families in homeless
accommodation including hotels, a 45% increase on last year.
Homelessness charity, Focus Ireland said 67 families who
became newly homeless in October were referred to its family
services in Dublin.
The organisations Director of advocacy, Mike Allen said the
figures paint, a really appalling, bleak picture as we head into
Christmas.
to Dublin City Council that money is not the issue [...] We are
ramping up the supports that are necessary.
"Ultimately, what we need is homes for people through social
housing problems, not emergency beds. In the short-term, we
need to increase emergency facilities."
http://www.newstalk.com/Takeover-of-vacant-NAMA-buildingfor-use-by-the-homeless-continues
Emergency help
Dean Scurry of Home Sweet Home said the the
action was a short-term initiative designed to provide
emergency help for the real number of rough sleepers
in Dublin City Centre which he said was about 300.
Mr Scurry said It is Christmas time. We dont want to
hear of any more deaths on the streets, he said.
Mr Scurry who said concerned friends had planned
and executed the plan to seize a building in five weeks,
said he believed the move would be successful because
of the people who have shown the love for this proving
they wanted to make a difference, people like Glen
Hansard. all those people that we look up to when we
go to gigs. People all over the country believe we can
make a difference.
He said the initiative came from a homeless man who
posted a video on Facebook saying it would be great if
we could get the homeless people off the streets and
put them in a Nama building.
An hour after that I met him in a park. We had a chat ,
an hour after that I had a chat with Brendan Ogle. An
hour after that I had a chat with the Irish Housing
Network, I had a chat with Glen Hansard, starting to
pull things together. That was five weeks ago.
Activists gained access to the property in the capitals
south inner-city at around 11pm on Thursday.
A Garda spokesman said that garda were called to the
area at about 12.30am on Friday morning. He
described the incident as peaceful and said garda
are no longer at the scene but are liaising closely with
parties involved.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/protesters-takeover-vacant-nama-building-for-use-by-homeless-1.2908396
Now you know why simon will never sort the housing crisis
Theas people are the Mafia of Ireland when are ye going to realise
this they are in for them selfs and nobody else.
90% of our politicians are clueless from reality removed gobshites !
Ever seen a penny drop; we did, dropped off the top shelf, it rolled
across the floor and stopped at WoodsHogan; it came from our own
post last night about the switcheroo, one aspect of the switcheroo is
the fact that WoodsHogan are dead and gone and yet when we were
going through the Courts listings today, Woodshogan were still on
record. Anyone joining the dots?
Bank A has your mortgage and employs a solicitor ABC.
The Bank then sells your mortgage to bank B who has a solicitor
DEF:
Bank Bs solicitor DEF then goes into the Circuit Court to change
all of the paperwork: this cant happen and those changes have
been done illegally;
Bank As; solicitor thats ABC must change the paperwork, then
come off record; Bank B solicitor DEF must then come on record.
Any Order gained is: invalid, any Court Case going forward is
:invalid.
So: its a notice of Motion to Strike the case out for want of
Jurisdiction: the whole process of the name change is flawed and not
done properly.
Has the original entity since died?
If WoodsHogan is a dead entity: how did Bank A or bank B for that
matter get the Court Papers. This plot just got deep, real deep:
still trying to get our heads around the situation but some heads will
roll over this one. The Vulture funds may have just shot themselves
in the foot: more to follow, we suspect, just joining the dots, crossing
the Ts and dotting the Is.
The Irish Famine was the greatest tragedy in Irish History. Between
1845 and 1848 about a million people died. Many of these people
are buried in unmarked graves. One of these graveyard is behind
my house at Kilally Ardee Road Dundalk.In 1842 Dundalk Union
workhouse was opened to look after the poorest people. These
people got very little to eat and they only got meat at Christmas
and Easter. They slept on straw and this lead to a lot of infection and
diseases .By 1852 the graveyard at the workhouse was full and a
new graveyard was needed. A man named Thomas fortesque sold
an acre of land at Kilally to the workhouse and Mr McEvoy who had
the ladnd rented got 20.00 for giving it up. The first people were
buried here in 1853. These people were not considered important.
The graves were not marked out , they were not given headstones
and their names were not recorded.My grandfather told me that the
people were carried from the workhouse to the graveyard about
1km in a coffin with a trap door, carried by two men. Thew body was
dumped in the graves and was covered with a sheet. There are no
records of how many people are buried in the graveyard. Over the
years the graveyard dilapidated. In 2005 some neighbours restored
the graveyard and put a new gate with a plaque on the wall.
m
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tenants.
The document also includes a focus on addressing the
related issues of homelessness, the rental bubble,
difficulties in obtaining mortgages, construction and the
amount of houses available in an apparent admission the
matters are part of the same problem.
The 37 separate points, and the fact none are costed to
date, will be central to the second day of round-table talks
at 10.30am today in Leinster House.
While Fine Gael remains hopeful forming a minority
government on April 6, a number of Independent TDs have
privately said the reality that other equally important
policy matters must be addressed means late April is more
realistic. In addition, the Independent Alliance and the
five-strong rural TD alliance have already committed to
holding separate meetings with Fianna Fil and its leader
Michel Martin throughout that day.
Speaking at Fairyhouse Racecourse yesterday, Mr Kenny
said no TD can sit on the sidelines and that they have
to take responsibility.
Independent TDs Michael Collins and John Halligan last
night said the public is frustrated Mr Kenny and Mr Martin
have yet to open talks.
the country to give familys a home & get kids that are living I'm
hotels out of them so they can have a normal life & be kids.
Yes let's do this all over ireland limerick have started taken care of
the homeless by helping with clothes blankets and lots more
another collection on 20th Dec outside penny's from 7pm maybe an
empty building next
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Latest homeless figures show the housing crisis is still
spiralling out of control.
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Simon Coveney TD
McVerry Trust.
Tix 35 on sale Monday at 9am
'heartless' about
homelessness
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
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Kodaline
Joan Collins said the minister did not have the power to
allocate an unlimited sum of public money
situation.
However, Ms Justice Denham said it could not
be considered as a template for broader
ministerial power on other occasions.
She said it was unlikely the Oireachtas would
concede such wide ranging power in other
less pressing circumstances.
But she said if it did, and a minister or other
body was permitted to provide unlimited
financial support, without limitation in time to
any commercial entity, then it would not
follow from this case that such would be
constitutionally permissible.
The ruling also found that the fact that no
financial cap was placed on the financial
support capable of being provided, might be
imprudent.
Or she said it might be an entirely prudent,
though necessary and awesome response to
an exceptional situation.
In either case the Chief Justice said it is a
decision made by the organ empowered by
the Constitution to do so.
She said the Oireachtas was free to decide to
impose limits on the extent to which the
State may borrow or spend but that decision
is one consigned by the Constitution to the
legislative branch and not the judicial branch
of government.
In the ruling, the court found the limits
placed on the exercise of ministerial power
under the 2008 act did not include a financial
cap, beyond which the financial support
Noonan: "Totally"
Context: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/...
Full interview available here with comments beginning around
nine minutes in
http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/r...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76z7gIJQEaA
Promissory Notes Are Legal Tender Private Banker from Blacks Law
Dictionary
an 30, 2016
Private Bankers National Banking Association,
http://www.PBNBA.com Promissory Notes Are Legal Tender.
Private Banker from Blacks Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, page
133, definition: Banking. The business of banking, as defined
by law and custom, consists in the issue of notes intended
to circulate as money..
And defines a Bankers Note (A Promissory Note) as: A
commercial instrument resembling a bank note in every
particular except that it is given by a private banker or
unincorporated banking institution. A Private Banker is a
Financial Institution; Unincorporated Banking Institution; and
Financial Agency pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 5312. Private Bankers
National Banking Association, PBNBA, Bankers Acceptance
Promissory Note under (U.C.C. 2-304) states, "The price can
be made payable in money or otherwise...".
IRS codes section 1.1001-1 (4657) C.C.H. states that Federal
Reserve Notes (Dollars) are valueless. The only lawful money
of the United States Of America are gold and silver coins with 1
oz .999 pure gold or silver as per Articles VIII and X of the
Constitution
For the United States of America, 1787. Bank Loan Contracts or
lender promissory notes requiring legal money that is not true
money such as: bank checks, cash, check, money orders,
attorney checks, bank transfers, wire transfers, FEDERAL
RESERVE PROMISSORY NOTE DOLLARS, cashier checks, and
certified checks from a bank, attorney, or escrow company are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUpmZV8QZiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRHSWGYNFc
The interview you all have being waiting for. Finally Irish
mainstream interviews Johnathon Sugarman,
These are the shower that is milking us dry. Yes rotten
Bastards.
These are the shower that is milking us dry. Yes rotten
Bastards.
Next step - take over the empty properties, and properties
owned by the Vulture Funds and rehouse the families
living in Hotels and Bed and Breakfast. 40 Families a
month being put out on the street, and more to come. All
this Government is interested in doing is to increase the
rents - instead of building Social Housing with our Tax
money. They bleat on, that there is no money - yeh right WE DO NOT BELIEVE YOU..
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Landlord group
threatens new
charges over rental
plans
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
8%.
Mr Coveney said the new wording would
ensure that anyone who is a tenant in a rent
pressure zone will be sure that at the end of
their two-year tenancy they will not face
more than a 4% increase, and thereafter
there would no be more than a 4% increase.
Mr Coveney also clarified that regardless of
when a rent review happens, a property in
the designated zone could not have a rent
increase of more than 4% in a 12-month
period.
He explained that if there was a change of
tenancy after six months, then the rise would
be 2%.
He said the Government did not want to have
an incentive for landlords in a rent pressure
zone ending a tenancy early.
The Dil is sitting until 8pm to continue the
debate on the legislation.
An amendment tabled by Independent TD
Seamus Healy to give people the right to
remain in dwellings where a landlord wants
to sell 20 or more units was defeated.
The so-called 'Tyrrelstown amendment'
referred to the families in the west Dublin
suburb who were served with notice to vacate
homes after they were bought up by a so-called
'vulture fund'.
Mr Coveney said he sought the advice of the
Attorney General who suggested that figure be
changed to 10.
Simon Coveney won that spat, played out over two days,
about the rent control plan.
Many, but not all, in Fine Gael will be pleased that he
chalked up a scarce win for the ones who have the name of
leading this creaky minority Coalition.
http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-
finance/property-mortgages/landlords-threatenraft-of-new-charges-in-reaction-to-governmentdecision-to-cap-rents-35300054.html
Dail Erin Are a Disgrace to Humanity over allowing Vulture Landlords
To Crucify Tenant's in order to Provide Pensions for themselves. Once
again the the Markets and Capitalist System including Democracy have
utterly Failed. t is up to the State to Provide Reasonable priced housing
and rental accommodation for its Citizens All Rents Should Be
Reduced Immediately by 50% God Knows we have had enough of
Landlord Vultures in the Past. Politian's are elected to Protect Citizens
not Enslave Them..........Disgusted to see the policies of making The
Rich Richer being enforced 100 years after achieving our
Independence and Freedom. .
Deal reached
between Fine Gael
and Fianna Fil on
rental measures
Updated / Dec. 15, 2016
reckless.
However, he said there was a need to see if
there was space to have the debate, adding
that tomorrows sitting should not have been
cancelled.
Mr Howlin criticised the bill, which he said
was to have been debated and the legislation
enacted before Christmas, affecting
thousands of tenants.
PBP-AAA Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett said all
of this would be scuppered because Fianna
Fil and Fine Gael are rowing over how much
landlords will get.
Sinn Fins Eoin Broin described the
proposal as a very bad one which will hurt
renters, and said Fianna Fil recoiled from it
when it heard negative media and tenant
reaction.
He said the debate should be held today.
Mr Coveney, however, insisted that he could
proceed with legislation on rent certainty
without knowing what the outcome would
be.
Responding to criticism of the delay, he said
the Government had flagged for many weeks
that it would announce key changes to the
private rental sector and seek to enact
legislation this week.
Mr Coveney said putting forward a bill
without knowing what the outcome would be
would mean he would have to implement
legislation that did not make sense and was
not legally sound.
Mary Robinson to
gift archive to NUI
Galway
Updated / Nov. 28, 2016
Mary Robinson will not avail of tax credits for donating her
archive
250,000 valuation
for Mary Robinson
'light in the window'
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
Coveney: No
Govt plans to
forcibly take
vacant
properties
Updated / May 24, 2016
Joe Brennan
The National Treasury Management Agency said the bills were due to be
repaid in 12 months. Photograph: Eric Luke
The States debt agency plans to sell 500 million of shortterm debt, known as treasury bills, this week in what is
expected to be its last engagement this year with the
capital markets.
THREE SIMPLE STEPS TO DESTRUCTION
The ongoing cancellation of the IBRC Promissory Note
bonds and subsequent destruction of the money raised is
a three-part process:
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) issues
sovereign bonds from which it raises billions of euro this
becomes part of the national debt, interest paid on the
bonds from the date of sale, the principal to be repaid
when those bonds mature;
In increments (so far) of 500m, the NTMA uses some of
those billions to buy the IBRC Promissory Note bonds held
When the banking crisis hit Ireland there were still no such
structures in place to deal with troubled banks and as a
direct result of that negligence, Ireland suffered a major
hit.
The EU, however, the ECB in particular, DID have a policy
no bank would be allowed fail. So in 2009/10 when Anglo
and INBS were already (to anyone with even half a brain)
obviously insolvent, a fudge was concocted between the
Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish government and the ECB
to save those banks. This involved the issuance of
Promissory Notes by the Irish government, accepted as
collateral by the Central Bank of Ireland/ECB, and funding
eventually amounting to 31bn was issued to the two
insolvent banks from the Emergency Liquidity Assistance
(ELA) fund.
Despite the fact that this was done principally to save
bigger banks across the eurozone, in Germany and France
particularly (Anglo and INBS were non-systemic to the Irish
banking system); despite the fact the ECB colluded in the
circumventing of its own rules on use of the ELA; despite
the fact all involved knew that Anglo/INBS (later combined
to become IBRC) would never be able to repay those
billions, the same ECB now insists that Ireland must take
that entire 31bn back out of circulation.
We dont have it (were broke, up to our necks in debt) so
we borrow it, and tranche by 500m tranche our Central
Bank destroys it the three-part system described above.
Is all this too complex to understand? Why are not being
told whats happening? We in the Ballyhea Says No
understand, we know whats happening, down to the last
sordid detail.
We are determined that all in Ireland should also know,
that all our friends in Europe (and we have many) should
know.
bonds.
That money is destroyed.
Thats right, my friends destroyed.
mature; this year, 2015, the NTMA gave the Central Bank
of Ireland 2,000m of borrowed money, 2,000m on which
we are now paying interest, 2,000m which will have to
repaid by a future generation of Irish people when those
bonds mature.
And the Central Bank of Ireland immediately destroyed
those hundreds of millions of euro, all three billion.
Those three billion are just the start the Central Bank of
Ireland still holds 25bn of IBRC bonds for sale, that 25bn
then also to be destroyed.
A NOD AND A WINK, A 31bn DEBT
The reason for all this destruction of money? In 2009/10,
to prevent the collapse of two insolvent banks (Anglo Irish
and INBS), the Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish
Government and the ECB colluded to bypass the ECBs
own regulations and allowed the creation of 31bn to bail
out the creditors of the two banks; a couple of years ago
those banks were finally wound up and as was known
even at the time, didnt have the wherewithal to cover
that 31bn; the ECB now insists that our Central Bank has
to take that entire 31bn back out of circulation. We dont
have it of course, so we borrow it and, tranche by 500m
tranche, destroy it.
The irony, as we head into 2016 if this were to happen
now, under the new ECB banking Single Resolution
Mechanism, those two banks would be bailed out using
funds raised from the banks themselves. All too late for
Ireland of course; those structures SHOULD have been in
place from the launch of the euro, but werent.
That the government would much prefer you didnt know
any of this is understandable, for obvious reasons; that the
Irish Times, that ALL our major national media, would so
misrepresent it, is an utter disgrace.
They would also have you all believe that the bank-debt
ship has sailed, all water under the bridge.
11.1
11.3
Germany
0.4
1.7
1
Austria
0.8
Netherlands
0.8
1.4
Source: Bloomberg, NTMA. *10 year yield used due to
lack of information on 8 year yields
Funding Practicalities
While the high interest rate on the new debt takes some of
the shine off Irelands return to the markets, the second
bond swap of the year has helped remove the significant
challenge of a funding cliff. At the beginning of this year,
Ireland was faced with a particularly unfriendly profile of
debt maturity: around 12 billion was due to be repaid in
January 2014, followed by a period of much smaller bond
repayments. The logistics of finding a buyer for 12 billion
worth of Irish debt so soon after the planned exit from the
troika assistance programme presented a daunting task.
However, thanks to the two successful bond swaps, this
funding requirement has been reduced to 7.8 billion and
the funding profile has become more balanced and
manageable.
Restoring Confidence
Confidence that Ireland can manage its debt in a normal
fashion is a precursor for Ireland to exit the troika bailout
programme, and this successful auction of long term
bonds is a part of building that confidence. The fact that
yields fell in the aftermath of the bond auction indicates
that the market attaches some value to the NTMAs
actions. There is also a possible link between a return to
conventional sources of government funding and higher
levels of investment and consumption in the domestic
economy, although such benefits would be hard to
quantify. The costs of returning to the market are easier to
identify: funding from official lenders carries an interest
which has just seen the size of its empire boosted by the
inclusion of property previously on the books of the now
liquidated IBRC.
The NTMA will be spearheading the sale of Bord Gis on
behalf of the state holding company New Era, while
continuing in charge of a shrunken National Pensions
Reserve Fund which has just committed 500m towards
Irish SMEs.
The resum
- Born: 1951.
- Education: University College Dublin.
- Career: 1980s, chief investment officer, AIB Investment
Managers. - 1991: Joined NTMA shortly after its launch by
the Haughey government.
- Initial position: Director, domestic funding-debt
management.
- 2001-2009: Investment director, National Pensions
Reserve Fund.
- 2009 to date: Chief executive.
- In the news: Oversaw this weeks 5bn issue of 10-year
bonds, the largest such Irish state issue since the
beginning of the financial crisis.
Ensuring that empty and boarded-up units are brought into use as quickly as possible
Ensuring that vulnerable groups including homeless households are prioritised in the
allocation of housing.
Ensuring that other suitable vacant residential properties are brought into use as
quickly as possible.
Using NAMA units, and ensuring priority for homeless households.
Ensuring that state leasing arrangements facilitate the use and accessibility of these
properties by homeless households.
Establishing a social housing renting service where properties for homeless
households are sourced for use by local authorities and voluntary housing associations.
Key measures/funding
In 2014, over 5,000 social housing units will be added by means of direct construction,
returning vacant properties to beneficial use, and leasing of units from the NAMA and
the private sector.
Funding for housing this year at over 587 million, is effectively maintained at 2013
levels.
In March 2014, some 56 social housing construction projects with an overall value of
some 68 million were announced.
This new construction programme will deliver 449 new units of accommodation for
people on the housing waiting list.
Last month details were announced of a new measure with funding of 15 million
which will be invested in bringing some 950 vacant and boarded-up local authority
houses back into productive use.
Last week the Government also pledged a further 50 million for further construction
projects, the reinstatement of vacant dwellings, and for homeless-specific projects.
Minister OSullivan will announce details in the coming days of further projects under
the Capital Assistance Scheme, including a 25m provision for homelessness.
http://patdeering.ie/2014/05/21/homelessnessimplementation-plan/
Homeless occupiers
are trespassing in
city centre building,
says receiver
Updated / Dec. 16, 2016
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1216/839385-homeless-protestdublin-apollo-house/
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homeless.
What we would like to do is bridge the gap Well be
asking people to volunteer, well be asking people to
get behind the idea. It is a radical idea.
Asked what the response would be if the group are
told by the authorities to vacate the building, Hansard
said: You appeal to the better nature of the
Government and Nama.
This is a NAMA-owned building. If everybody pays tax
in this audience, if anyone knows their stuff they know
that that is essentially our building. We are just going
to take it for a few months.
The action came about through conversations with
different artists, singers and friends over the year, he
told Tubridy.
buildings be available to
homeless services at
Christmas?
A derelict building in Dublin has been occupied by homeless activists
with a view to converting it into housing for the homeless.
December 16, 16
http://www.thejournal.ie/housing-crisis-nama-poll3143393-Dec2016/
The truly tragic thing is that RTE would never have this
story on the Late Late, let alone any news station if it were
not for the famous names.
If it were just the people, they might be battered by the
authorities by now and RTE out in force with yet another
"sinister fringe" report.
We are involved in an act of civil disobedience, Glen
Hansard tells The #LateLate Show as he talks about
#HomeSweetHome and #OccupyNama
https://www.facebook.com/RTEOne/videos/133246282682
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'peaceful'.
Garda are no longer at the scene, but are liasing closely with
the parties involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoX73Y5o-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk4scySuANo
Christmas.
The right to an adequate standard of living is a
critical right for all children including those who are
homeless and living in emergency accommodation.
The state must therefore ensure limited use of
emergency accommodation, similar to neighbouring
jurisdictions, like Scotland.
ISPCC is concerned that the progress made so far to
bring forward alternatives to emergency
accommodation in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan
on Housing and Homelessness is insufficient if the
target of ceasing to use emergency accommodation
for children by mid 2017 is to be met.
Urgent action is needed to heed the advice of the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this year,
to provide housing for homeless children, adequate to
their health and well-being."
The ISPCC marked Human Rights Day today calling on the
state to put in place minimum legal protections for homeless
children, including a right to temporary accommodation and
advice and assistance; the establishment of a programme of
alternative accommodation for homeless families to reduce the
use of emergency accommodation; and a commitment to
outlaw use of emergency accommodation for homeless
children from 2018 onwards.
The right to an adequate standard of living is recognised in
article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the October homelessness statistics from the
Department of Housing, there are currently 2,470 children
across the country who are experiencing homelessness, an
increase of 44 children in one month.
The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive further reported that
1,608 children are living in emergency accommodation in the
Dublin region.
These children are worse off than children who are homeless
in the UK because they have fewer legal protections,
according to the charity.
ISPCC chief executive Grainia Long stated: The figures of
children who are homeless continue to rise. 44 children are
newly homeless this month, more than a class full of children
that will have no home this Christmas.
The right to an adequate standard of living is a critical right for
all children including those who are homeless and living in
emergency accommodation.
The state must therefore ensure limited use of emergency
accommodation, similar to neighbouring jurisdictions, like
Scotland.
ISPCC is concerned that the progress made so far to bring
forward alternatives to emergency accommodation in the
Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness
is insufficient if the target of ceasing to use emergency
accommodation for children by mid 2017 is to be met.
Urgent action is needed to heed the advice of the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this year, to
provide housing for homeless children, adequate to their
health and well-being."
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/homeless-children-inireland-worse-off-than-those-in-uk-768054.html
new scheme.
The Children's Minister Katherine Zappone says families
registered as homeless in the Dublin region will benefit from
next month as part of 8.25 million euro in funding.
The Minister says school children can avail of the free
childcare outside of term time and it will be available for 50
weeks of the year.
The Department says other areas are also expected to follow.
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The question that has now arisen is: Was RTE, Late Late Show
Management and Ryan Tubridy aware that Glen Hansard was going
to say what he did. If none of them were pre warned, then Home
From Home have scored a massive coup on behalf of the homeless
in Ireland. However, if Glen Hansard's announcement was previously
cleared by RTE, then more very serious questions arise. Because
RTE, THE LATE LATE SHOW, RYAN TUBRIDY AND HIS BRAINWASHED
AUDIENCE OF SHEEP, DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE HOMELESS
IN IRELAND.
Civil disobedience! Another direct action that will hopefully lead to
change
Good on glen and every body that's involved fear play
Legend. Rattlin' the bars in the Dil, I'd say.
/react-text Why oh why did the late late decide to give away a
sponsored hamper to everyone in the audience just after Glen
Hansard was on? Surely said sponsor could have given it one of the
charities just spoke about instead of the audience
Absolutely right the people should take the power back
Well if they can take a building that rightfully belongs to us what's
stopping us taking back OUR country and get them gobshytes out of
the government
Its About someone took a stand! What should be illegal is the fact
nama leave these buildings unused, builders are buying back
, he said.
The building industry has stated the cost of and regulation
of construction needs to be reduced for more homes to be
built.
IRES has spent hundreds of millions of euro buying
apartments, mostly entire apartment blocks from banks
and Nama.
Last week it agreed to buy 203 apartments at Elm Park in
south Dublin in a deal worth 59m. It is also building
apartments in Sandyford.
HERE IS A LIST OF TDS WHO ARE LANDLORDS OR
LANDLADIES AND WHAT PROPERTIES THEY RENT OUT:
1 Kerry Deputy Michael Healy Rae: At least 8 properties:
2 farmhouses, a property in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, a rental
apartment in Killarney, Kerry, houses in Kenmare,
Castleisland and Killarney, and student accommodation in
Limerick.
2 Fianna Fils John Mc Guinness: At least 8 properties
and an interest in a nursing home: 3 rental properties in
Dublin, 3 in Kilkenny, a property in Limerick, a property in
Tipperary, and an interest in a nursing home.
3 Social Democrat, Stephen Donnelly: 2 properties:
Rental property in Beacon South Quarter in Dublin and in
Clara, Co Offaly.
4 Former ceann comhairle and Fine Gael TD, Sean
Barrett: Shareholder in 1 property: Barrett states he is a
shareholder in a company that owns an office block and
which is leased to a tenant.
5 Minister for Housing Simon Coveney: 1 property:
Hartys Quay, Rochestown, in Cork.
6 Agriculture Minister Michael Creed: Interests in 3
properties: Money invested in three addresses in
Macroom, Co Cork.
7 Fianna Fils Dara Calleary: 2 months rental income
from a property that he once lived in on Distillery Road in
Dublin but sold it in July 2015.
8 Fine Gael Galway East TD, Ciarn Cannon: An
executive director in a property company.
9 Fine Gaels Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 27 acres at
Ferbane, Co Offaly that has been rented out.
10: Waterford TD, John Deasy: 1 rental apartment in
Citywest in Dublin.
11: Pat Deering: 1 rental property in Rathvilly, Co Carlow.
12: Chief whip Regina Doherty: 2 properties: One in
Ashbourne Business Park and City Campus in Limerick.
heas people are the Mafia of Ireland when are ye going to realise
this they are in for them selfs and nobody else.
Greedy greedy bastards not happy with a big wage they have to pry
on the poor May they all rot in hell I'm sure there is a place for them
there
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I definitely do not agree with a lot of the fine gael labour party
policies but has everyone forgotten why we're in this situation in the
first place? Fine gael through history have always come back into
power and fixed the greedy idiotic decisions of fine fail and are then
attacked by the people for the decisions they HAVE to make
because of it! I cant believe fine fail popularity has even grown after
what they've done to us and unfortunately people are forgetting
that it was Fine Fail that put us here.
http://www.independent.ie//stephen-donnelly-heres-whythe-
Fianna Fil should have been buried for three decades
when Labour took over, their working class power base
destroyed by this present governments completing preexisting investigations into corruption in six local
authorities and launching new investigations into the
banking, insurance and estate agents, legal and financial
sectors.
Fianna Fil fully expected this kind of destruction of their
power base, yet that hasn't happened.
Phil Hogan shut down the planning investigations, an act
of infamy that will haunt him, of that you can be certain.
There has been NOTHING done to properly Tax, Monitor
and Regulate the banks - instead we have seen Noonan's
hand-wringing!
Labour seems to have a far-too-cosy relationship with Fine
Gael and the main Opposition Party Fianna Fil
All three "mainstream" parties are working to try to block
the advance of the Shinners and the Independents.
Now they are facing a new party - Direct Democracy
Ireland - and the cat is well and truly amongst the pigeons.
Some of the effects of this are noted above, but worse was
to follow.
The Fiscal Treaty has bound us to Europe.
Between the government and the courts the electorate
was denied the right to vote on the ESM, an
unconstitutional act in my opinion.
The ESM exposes us to unlimited calls on our exchequer
and should therefore have been put before the people.
These treaties taken together dilute our voting power so
that the next time the transnational banks engineer an
economic crash they will be able to drain unlimited monies
from the coffers of governments in Europe.
Is anyone still in doubt this was engineered by the banks
and their endgame is not yet reached?
All TD's Senators and MEP's urgently need to look at
section 1 of this "Troika" of Videos at 2:11
At that point, a banker states quite baldly: "What we also
did we engineered the World FInancial Crisis."
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
1 - the Admission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4B5f2ezEB8
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
2 - Christin Lagarde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHaCajsyAe0
Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis"
3 - More Plans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6NY0s4AcQ
What has our government done do deal with this Global
Fraternity of Bankers who are quite clearly manipulating
events at national an international scale?
Far Reaching Legislation was rammed through in an
unconstitutional manner with no proper consideration of
the wording, unbalancing the relationship between
legislative, executive and judicial branches of Government
in the State and giving powers to the Minister for Finance
which do away with the checks and balances of a properly
formed Oireachtas.
This is the result of an irrelevant Labour Party! Our country
sold down the river!
We have an effective National Government where Fine
Gael is Fianna Fil Lite!
We have a disgraceful mess, where a Tax-Amnesty-Availing
Cosy-Cartel-Alleging "Best Friend of John Bruton" and now
"Independent" Michael Lowry is starting to smell like an
over-ripe Ham and still there is no investigation following
the Moriarty Tribunal!
http://www.independent.ie//michael-mcdowelldeafening-sile
It seems that Labour have sold the same shirt to two
different people once two often.
In Gilmore's own words, "They'll take the Schilling and
follow the Drum!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpr2zaXvb4M
In Meath, the electorate decided what to do.
Is there no hope then for the Labour Party?
While there's life, there's hope, but it looks like a fresh
direction is needed.
Labour's willing, even supine, participation in all things
Fianna Fil and Fine Gael has to end.
The Powers of the Minister for Finance and the ESM Treaty
must be revisited to prevent disaster in the future.
The government must face the two obvious facts - you
Michael McDowell:
Deafening silence from
government and RTE
In a major analysis, Michael McDowell
says publication of the Lowry Tapes is
a matter of huge public importance
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Representatives of the Troika, from right, Ajai Chopra from the IMF,
Istvan Szekely of the EU, and Klaus Masuch from the ECB
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Frances Fitzgerald, Heather Humphreys, Katherine Zappone, Mary
Mitchell OConnor and Regina Doherty were at the front of a photo
taken at Government Buildings when Enda Kenny unveiled his new
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If you went by recent celebrity interviews and the amount of
awareness campaigns out there, you would think Irish people are
still in chronic denial about how messed up they really are. But the
reality on the ground feels somewhat different.
who aren't shy about looking for help. They come from a
confessional culture and they already speak the language
of therapy. They've been into mindfulness for years (even
though they've never quite got the hang of it). They are
quite ready to blame their parents. They know full well
when their black dog needs curbing.
Most of my friends are quite open about the fact that
they're just hanging on by their fingernails and we'll
casually pass on therapist tips to each other the way
previous generations might have recommended a builder.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/themental-health-stigma-has-faded-but-quacks-arethriving-35284300.html
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able to remain.
The latest rough sleeper count for Dublin found 142 people
sleeping rough in the city centre. There have since been an
extra 145 beds opened, with the Housing Department
saying that there will be a bed for anyone who want one
this Christmas.
However, McGuinness said that the beds are nearing
capacity already, and the latest Simon rough sleeper count
found over 100 homeless people still sleeping rough.
The IHN, Home Sweet Home, and the various activists
and big-name celebrities associated with their cause
clearly believe there is a need and are taking direct action
in relation to homelessness.
Occupations have sprung up and fizzled out over the past
year, but with the time of year thats in it, and the big
names behind it, this one could have staying power
Kenny 'Is there many sleeping rough on the streets in
Dublin tonight Simon'
Coveney 'None!'
Kenny 'Good man. After five years you have solved the
problem?'
Coveney 'No, Enda, it wasn't me - Home Sweet Home
solved the problem! We failed the homeless'
John Connors
This has to be the best thing that has happened this year . Fair play
to all involved. If we , the people own the building, then we , the
people should decide how it is put to good use .
Shame on government look what ordinary people can get done by
standing shoulder to shoulder not like ye gobshits
Funny how the ONLY victims FF, FG, and the journalists involved care
about are victims that can damage the biggest threat to their as yet
uninterrupted governance of this state. This is a disgraceful charade
and an insult to the many thousands of victims of FF and FG
policies, which included throwing fuel on the troubles for decades.
Despicable maneouvres, and Stack's contentions don't hold up to
the mildest of scrutiny. He's a liar, victim or not.
Time to take our country back enough of these politicians
dictationing what they want not what the irish people want
The following is the full text of the Fine GaelFianna F il1 document which deals with the
mechanics of how a minority government
arrangement will work and broad policy
areas.
A Confidence and Supply Arrangement
for a Fine Gael-Led Government
This document outlines the Confidence and
Supply arrangement between Fine Gael2 and
Fianna F il to facilitate a Fine Gael-led
minority Government and the agreed policy
principles that underpin that arrangement.
Fine Gael will seek to agree separate policy
commitments in a broader range of areas
with other Oireachtas3 members as a basis
for a comprehensive Programme for
Government.
Core Principles for the Confidence and
Supply Arrangement for a Fine Gael Led
Government
This is a document that outlines the
confidence and supply arrangement to
facilitate a Fine Gael-led minority
Government. Subject to the ongoing
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facilities with the blunt riposte that "I have my own car."
He additionally insists that his job as chairman of the Turf
Cutters Association "costs me money".
Independent TD Stephen Donnelly nominates himself as a
"landlord" with properties in Dublin and Offaly.
Is there something missing? The really embarrassing bit in
the register is deliberately buried at the bottom of this
piece. My own entry exposes me as one of the most
diabolically incompetent investors in the Oireachtas.
I reveal a shipwrecked share portfolio. My Irish shares
include two of the biggest dogs in the stock market, Bank
of Ireland and (dare I say it here?) Independent News &
Media. Both may be on the recovery trail today, but I
bought them back in the glory years to bolster my
pension.
They promised a steady stream of dividends to carry me
into my dotage. It is many years since they delivered.
They are worth less than 10pc of their purchase price.
Combined, they are worth less than 10 grand.
Some pension!
Apart from loss-making share investments the balance of
my savings are overseas, determinedly sunk into German
and US bonds which yield nothing - or give negative
returns. Even Michael Noonan abandoned such caution.
The only bright spot in my declaration last year is a gift of
a ticket for Wimbledon Centre Court. I promptly had a
blazing row with the donor. So there will be no repeat this
year.
Instead, I think I will follow the Labour Party punters into
property."
Never give up your home.
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what set him on the road to riches. His gift from Fine Gael the first mobile phone licence, thanks to Lowry made
O'Brien a killing when he quickly flipped the company. He
pocketed 250 million and skipped off to Portugal to save
having to pay 55 million in Irish tax on his windfall.
O'Brien lost tens of millions on his investment in INM, but
it has brought him a big dividend in other ways. Control of
the media in Ireland (he also has a huge radio portfolio
through his Communicorp Group) has enabled him to wield
huge political power. He was instrumental in getting Kenny
and Fine Gael returned in the General Election. And when
Fine Gael are in power Dinny makes money. Loads of
money, Contracts awarded. Millions written off ...
O'Brien's media attack opposition politicians and give
endless free PR to his Blueshirt buddies. His media have a
particular hatred of Sinn Fin and in particular Gerry
Adams, and a relentless barrage of attacks before the
General Election resulted in the Shinners not gaining more
seats, possibly as many as a dozen. So O'Brien through his
wealth influenced the result of the election and he got his
protg Kenny returned (albeit with a weak hand).
Journalists working under O'Brien have to toe the line and
through fear of losing their jobs churn out relentless
propaganda on behalf of the government. Journalists like
Irish Independent editor Fionnn Sheehan and Kevin Doyle
Group Political Editor for Independent News and Media
obediently print their master's words. The government are
in thrall to O'Brien and so the present Communications
Minister Independent Blueshirt Denis Naughten will not
threaten O'Brien's media monopoly. In fact the media
baron is adding to his monopoly by snapping up more
regional newspapers. The media control will soon rival RT
and will reach every corner of the land like an octupus,
spouting out it's owner propaganda and promoting his
business interests.
The present government will not touch O'Brien.
We desperately need an alternative, a new national
newspaper that is not controlled by the wealthy 1% and
that can give a democratic voice to the majority of
citizens.
Would YOU support such a newspaper?
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no the only isis here are FG, ff, and LB and independent some of
them landlords in the dial who fleece and rob the irish people in
rents and if they cannot afford an extra 4% they will be on the
streets too, these bastsrd deliberately escalated the housing crisis
for their own greed and corruption we need them out, and every
build in Dublin is belong to the Irish people not the government we
own them and the banks we pay the taxes not these fucking fG, LB
FF and IND BUNCH OF MAFIA CORRUPT corrupt wankerS, THEY ARE
THE ISIS FRINGE NOT US,
IF COVENEY OR ANY TD OR NAMA TRIES TO THROW THE HOMELESS
OUT OF THE BUILDING IT WILL CAUSE A HUGE REVOLUTION IN
IRELAND AND AROUND THE WORLD WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF
OTHER COUNTRIES, IT WOULD BE AN EMBARRASSMENT ON EVERY
TD LANDLORD MAFIA FUCKERS IN THE DIAL AND KENNY TOO IF
THEY ALLOWED THIS, AND IF THE GARDA INTERFERED THEN THEY
TOO WOULD BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THEMSELVES AND IT
WOULD BE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
WHAT CORRUPT JUDGE WHOO WOULD TRY TO CHALLENGE THIS,
LIKE THEY DID ON THE PROMMISIONARY NOTES CHALLENGE TODAY
THE CORRUPT HIRE FF, FG, LB JUDGESSELECTED BY THESE FUCKERS
AND CORRUPT DPP MARIE WHELAN THEY WILL GET THERE COMINGS
SOON, IT IS CATCHING UP NOW, WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE ON THE
CASE PG THE JUSTICE WILL BE DONE SOON AND THE BASTARDS
WILL BE FOUND OUT
Brendan Ogle
Jim Sheridan and Brendan Ogle of Home Sweet Home at Apollo House at
Poolbeg Street, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Artists row in
And then theres Nama. The bad bank that was used to
socialise private debt and bequeath to us buildings all
over our landscape that lie fallow while people get
soaked, freeze, go hungry and even die below. Did I
think we could get access to a Nama property? We
owned it after all. It took about a week to find a
property we could access with some assistance and
eventually Apollo House, a former social welfare office
now closed down, came into our possession.
This has been tried before. The wonderful Irish
Housing Network and many other groups have been
trying to provide support for our homeless people for a
long time. But never in a Nama property and never
with such support. So a loose coalition was formed. We
all had different tasks, but the same motivation. Could
we arrive at a situation where nobody, at least in
Dublin, is forced to be without a roof and home for
this Christmas and beyond?
There are wonderful videos involving Jim Sheridan,
Glen and many others and I hope, we all hope, that
Human decency
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/brendan-ogle-why-we-haveoccupied-apollo-house-1.2908984
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Housing Minister Simon Coveney. Photo: Gareth Chaney Collins
ultimately said his party would live with the 4pc figure if
Mr Coveney moved on the list of RPZs.
However, the Housing Minister took a substantial political
risk and refused to budge, meaning the talks ended in
deadlock. Mr Coveney said he has the full backing of
Taoiseach Enda Kenny for the move.
"I think what has happened is just extraordinary. There is
a lot of politics going on. They are messing with people's
lives," he said.
A senior Fianna Fil source claimed they were "backed
into a corner". "We were prepared to reluctantly move on
the rate but he wouldn't give on the other areas."
Mr Coveney argued that further study by the Residential
Tenancies Board would be required on the areas listed by
Fianna Fil before they could be designated as RPZs.
He offered "assurances" that this would happen as quickly
as possible in the new year and that decisions on Galway
and Limerick could be fast-tracked in January, followed by
Waterford, Meath, Kildare, Louth and Wicklow before the
end of February.
But Fianna Fil sources said: "That's a ridiculous scenario.
You might as well put a big billboard in all those towns
saying 'put rents up now because controls are coming in a
few months'."
The breakdown came just hours after Mr Coveney was
close to being feted for his work on the rental strategy at a
Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.
The minister gave a presentation to TDs and senators in
Leinster House and received "unanimous" support for his
uncompromising position with Fianna Fil.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny told a private meeting of Fine Gael
TDs and senators that renters will be left in a "perilous
position" unless legislation passes through the Dil today.
Fianna Fil were said to be annoyed by what party sources
described as reports of the "pumped up" atmosphere in
Fine Gael.
Mr Cowen was last night consulting with the party
hierarchy about their next move, while the Housing
rent reviews to every two years. This rule will still apply
outside of RPZs. They will cease to apply in Dublin and
Cork but not until rents fall due for review.
What supply measures are being proposed?
The minister has announced a series of measures aimed at
kick-starting supply, including:
- Examining the tax/fiscal treatment of accommodation
providers
- Using publicly owned land for development
- Promoting a build to rent model
- Supporting credit availability for bringing vacant stock
into the private rental market.
- Exploring the potential to bring into use, for rental
purposes, vacant properties where owners move to a
nursing home under the Fair Deal scheme.
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with 24 abstentions.
Earlier, the CEO of the Dublin Simon
Community said he has given the 'Home
Sweet Home' volunteers advice on health
and safety issues.
Speaking on RT's News at One, Sam
McGuinness said he believes garda will
support whatever is needed there, saying the
volunteers are hoping to provide some shortterm respite for homeless people.
He said the Dublin Simon Community
counted 99 people sleeping rough in the city
this morning and the organisers of 'Home
Sweet Home' are taking people off the
streets.
He said that once the heating is turned on
then the building will function to an extent
that it will be safer than sleeping in a
doorway or "some kind of dumpster".
Mr McGuinness added that he believes it will
"certainly be more secure than people
sleeping in a doorway, or sleeping in tents in
the park".
In the Dil this afternoon, Fianna Fil deputy
Ann Rabbitte said it is very easy for TDs to
leave Leinster House, walk down Grafton
Street and pass people "putting in a bed for
the night".
Earlier the AAA-PBP Deputy Richard Boyd
Barrett called on the Minister to put services
in Apollo House to enable the homeless to
use it over Christmas.
The Independents4Change TD Mick Wallace
Johns house once I can move into my house. John has the
timber floors picked out for his kitchen already.
I am back and forth to the house carrying out works on a
regular basis and at this stage the security seems to
ignore me I am there so often. Breda and John get security
warnings when they visit the site but I think they have
given up on me, he joked.
John Ryan Sr made local and national headlines last year
when he broke into his house, ignoring security warnings
he was trespassing on private property and risking the
wrath of AIB and its receiver, KPMG.
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half a decade.
The Bermuda-based company, which operates in 32
markets in the Caribbean and South Pacific regions, is
in the middle of a third year of earnings decline, with
its latest quarterly figures, to the end of September, hit
particularly by currency weakness in several of its
markets against the dollar.
Project Swan
Weakened
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You could have him down for 2 days and would not still be cooked.
BRAZIL NUTS
Michael Noonan
fumes after Brazil
brand Ireland a tax
haven and put them
on their naughty
list this Christmas
Ireland is ranked the 6th worst tax haven
by Oxfam because of its low tax rate
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BY JOHN DRENNAN 12th December 2016
This country is a brass plate economy, some small
buildings in Dublin have over a hundred companies listed
in the phone book, they don't answer the phones should
you ring them, there is no one employed in these buildings
there is just brass plates telling you some companies do
exist there, but only on the brass plate. Liars Liars Liars
Brazil nuts
Asylum-seeker assumed
false identity to allow him
work before claiming
50k in welfare
Isabel Hayes
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13/12/2016
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Samba Sow. Picture Collins Courts.
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Handing down a suspended two-year sentence, Judge
Catherine Murphy noted that although Sow claimed his
entitlements under a false name, he never tried to claim
double payments. As soon as he was given an alternative
social welfare payment, he ceased claiming the first
payment, she said.
Garda Nigel Daly told Dean Kelly BL, prosecuting, that
Sow arrived in Ireland from Senegal in 2007 and claimed
asylum. He was placed in direct provision in Tralee, Co
Kerry and received a payment of 19 a week.
Sow then paid 900 for a French passport with the name
Moussa Sow which allowed him to work in the country. He
acquired a PPS number under this name and worked in a
pub in Dublin for the next four years. While working, he
paid income tax and PRSI.
Mr Kelly said Sow was made redundant during the
recession and started claiming social welfare payments
under the name Moussa Sow. He claimed a total of
50,006 over the next four years, the court heard.
However, when Sow was granted permission to remain in
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Anglo chief executive David Drumm.
A judge has been appointed to deal with pretrial matters in the case of former Anglo
Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm.
The President of the Circuit Court, Judge Raymond
Groarke, has appointed Judge Karen OConnor to decide
on issues, including disclosure of evidence.
The former bank executive is scheduled to go on trial next
April on two charges of conspiring to defraud depositors
and investors at Anglo by dishonestly creating the
2011.
However Drumm refuses to cooperate with garda and will
not return to Ireland.
In a strongly-worded statement on Friday, Fianna Fls
Michael McGrath a member of the committee said
allowing the video testimony to go ahead would be a grave
error.
I will not support or play any part in such an exercise,
the TD warned.
Other committee members have also voiced their
concerns. Also speaking on Friday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny
said Drumm should cooperate fully and completely.
It emerged at the weekend that the testimony of the
former Anglo boss is expected to contradict that given by
former Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
The Irish Times reported on Saturday that Drumm is
expected to say Cowen was lobbied by the bank at at
dinner in April of 2008. Cowen told the committee it was
purely a social event, and that no business was discussed.
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Gormley.
McGrath then asked Harney whether there had been much
conversation at cabinet level about the pressures building
up on the financial system in the months leading up to
September 2008.
She replied: As I recall we were assured all was well with
the financial system.
When the crisis hit it all happened very quickly to the best
of my memory.
Lobbyists
Fianna Fil senator Marc McSharry, who had been
particularly boisterous in his questioning of Enda Kenny,
Pat Rabbitte and Joan Burton at the inquiry last week, was
a little more restrained this time round.
Marc McSharry
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The inquiry said the decision was arrived at even though it was
waiting for further discussions with the Director of Public
Prosecutions.
The decision followed an intervention on Wednesday by the
DPP requesting the inquiry not publish the document. The
committee then sought clarification on the DPP's objections.
Members of the inquiry met in private session twice yesterday
morning to consider its own legal advice on the matter and has
decided not to publish the statement at this point.
The committee intends to seek further clarifications from the
DPP before reaching a final decision on publishing Mr
Drumm's statement, which was received some weeks ago.
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Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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Social Justice Ireland welcomes the Euro Area Summit (June 2829, 2012) conclusion that "it is imperative to break the vicious
circle between banks and sovereigns". This is a development
we have advocated for almost four years. However, the
specifics of how this is to be done and what its impact will be
on Ireland's budgetary situation are not clear.
As always the devil will be in the detail. The more carefully we
examine the text of the statement issued after the summit, the
more questions are raised about how the proposed measures
will actually work. What the statement says is: "When an
effective single supervisory mechanism is established, involving
the ECB, for banks in the euro area the ESM could, following a
regular decision, have the possibility to recapitalize banks
directly" (emphasis ours). So once a supervisory mechanism is
in place the ESM could have the possibility of taking such
action.
The devil as usual will be in the detail. The more carefully one
examines the text of the statement, the more questions are
raised about how the proposed measures will actually work.
The German Finance Minister has insisted that there will be no
increase in the size of the ESM. This position has not been
changed at the summit The German Chancellor has repeatedly
insisted that there will be no joint financing of Eurozone debt
(e.g. through Eurobonds) before full fiscal union has been put
in place. This position too has not changed as a result of the
summit.,
It appears that the summit has given the ESM new
responsibilities but has not provided the additional money
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and early exit from the Euro. SYRIZA was not elected to take
Greece out of Europe. Hence, in order to meet electoral
commitments, the relationship between Athens and Europe
had to be extended in some way acceptable to both.
But extend what, exactly? There were two phrases at play, and
neither was the vague extend the bailout. The phrase extend
the current programme appeared in troika documents,
implying acceptance of the existing terms and conditions. To
the Greeks this was unacceptable, but the technically-morecorrect extend the loan agreement was less problematic. The
final document extends the Master Financial Assistance Facility
Agreement which was better still. The MFFA is underpinned
by a set of commitments but these are technically distinct.
In short, the MFFA is extended but the commitments are to be
reviewed.
Also there was the lovely word arrangement which the
Greek team spotted in a draft communiqu offered by
Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Monday afternoon
and proceeded to deploy with abandon. The Friday document
is a masterpiece in this respect:
The purpose of the extension is the successful completion of
the review on the basis of the conditions in the current
arrangement, making best use of the given flexibility which will
be considered jointly with the Greek authorities and the
institutions. This extension would also bridge the time for
discussions on a possible follow-up arrangement between the
Eurogroup, the institutions and Greece. The Greek authorities
will present a first list of reform measures, based on the
current arrangement, by the end of Monday February 23. The
institutions will provide a first view whether this is sufficiently
comprehensive to be a valid starting point for a successful
conclusion of the review.
If you think you can find an unwavering commitment to the
exact terms and conditions of the current programme in that
language, good luck to you. It isnt there. So, no, the troika cant
come to Athens and complain about the rehiring of cleaning
ladies.
To understand the issues actually at stake between Greece and
Europe, you have to dig a little into the infamous
Memorandum of Understanding signed by the previous
Greek governments. A first point: not everything in that paper
is unreasonable. Much merely reflects EU laws and regulations.
Provisions relating to tax administration, tax evasion,
corruption, and modernization of public administration are,
broadly, good policy and supported by SYRIZA. So it was not
difficult for the new Greek government to state adherence to
seventy percent of the memorandum.
The remaining thirty percent fell mainly into three areas: fiscal
targets, fire-sale privatizations and labor-law changes. The fiscal
target of a 4.5 percent primary surplus was a dog as everyone
would admit in private. The new government does not oppose
privatizations per se; it opposes those that set up price-gouging
private monopolies and it opposes fire sales that fail to bring in
much money. Labor law reform is a more basic disagreement
but the position of the Greek government is in line with ILO
standards, and that of the programme was not. These
matters will now be discussed. The fiscal target is now history,
and the Greeks agreed to refrain from unilateral measures
only for the four-month period during which they will be
seeking agreement.
Cassidy acknowledges some of this, but then minimizes it, with
the comment that the deal seems to rule out any large-scale
embrace of Keynesian stimulus policies. In what document
does any such promise exist? There is no money in Greece; the
government is bankrupt. Large-scale Keynesian policies were
never on the table as they would necessarily imply exit an
expansionary policy in a new currency, with all the usual
dangers. Inside the Euro, investment funds have to come from
better tax collection, or from the outside, including private
investors and the European Investment Bank. Cassidys
comment seems to have been pulled from the air.
Another distant fantasy is the notion that the SYRIZA team was
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An Overview: Irelands Bailout and associated Budget for
2011 1 Background On 7 December 2010, the European Union
formally approved an 85billion financial
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Sarah Bardon
Apologised
Review
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A priest in Italy has caused uproar after announcing
there would be no Christmas nativity scene at the
local cemetery this year because it could offend
Muslims and atheists.
Fr Sante Braggi said there would be no crib in the cemetery in
the northern city of Cremona because it may anger people of
others faiths or none whose relatives are buried there.
A small corner of the cemetery is reserved for Muslim
graves, Fr Braggi said. A crib positioned within sight of
them could be seen as a lack of respect for followers of other
faiths, hurt the sensibilities of Muslims, as well as Indians and
even atheists.
He also cited a lack of council workers to set up the crib as
another reason for abandoning the tradition.
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parents.
Zappone said: Our officials have assured us that before
Christmas we will be receiving another 131 refugees, and
that we would anticipate having the full number of
refugees coming from Greece and Italy, in the resettlement
programme, by the end of 2017. Thats about 2,600 of the
4,000.
Earlier this year, Ireland pledged to take in 4,000 refugees.
Zappone is currently on a three-day visit to Greece to visit
camps where those who fled to Europe are currently
staying.
https://www.thesun.ie/news/287083/some-131-refugeesset-to-land-on-irish-shores-before-christmas/
It looks like many of these guys have skin in the game, and
maintaining a housing shortage by not building, and
unchecked immigration, results in increased demand for any
houses or apartments coming on the rental market - win, win,
for the landlord class, and of course the Revenue who get 51%
of the take.
This approach assists these landlords, who more than likely
would have invested in these properties at the top end of the
boom in house prices, and maintaining high rents at the
present level is helping them to pay off their mortgages.
Dont you love non landlords telling everyone that they know exactly
how everything works.
Landlords are paying up to 51% on profit rent and still have to pay
the mortgage.
Hard to believe that facing an extra 11% in taxes and LPT that rents
have gone up substantially.
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and a half
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Apple has added three new wallpapers that can be used on
the new phone models; iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Each has
its own name - Droplet Blue, Droplet Red and Droplet Yellow.
100 New Emoji
You may well wonder if there's any real need for 100 more
emjoi, but you're getting them anyway! The new emoji
additions include male and female versions of firefighters and
judges.
"Press and Hold to Speak
You'll find Press and Hold to Speak within the Settings app >
General > Accessibility > Home Button. This allows you to
activate Siri or Voice Control when you press and hold
the circular home button.
Videos Widget
Apple has added a new widget for videos to the lock screen.
This widget will show you the latest videos recorded to the
device.
Headphones Icon
You'll find a small headphones icon in the status bar, which will
indicate when the headphones are connected. This is very
helpful for those of us using Bluetooth headphones.
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Apple Sidesteps
Billions in Taxes,
Heres How
Apple has established subsidiaries in locations that
offer low or zero taxation rates., and have created
corporate strategies in which clearly takes
advantage of the taxation loopholes. Should we
congratulate them or not?
By IT Ninja December 14, 2016
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Housing refugees in family
homes Positive Action in
Housing petition
We call on the British government to harness the goodwill
of those individuals and families who are willing to take
refugees into their homes and quickly resettle Syrian
refugees so that they may begin the process of rebuilding
their lives.
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Fleur Houston, Coventry, 22 November 2016
Now is a small word, so small that it often passes unnoticed,
almost an apology for a word. Yet here it has particular weight.
For now, today, Germany, Hungary, Austria, France are facing
significant political elections. And the key issue for all four is
the extent to which they are prepared to welcome refugees.
Two days ago, Angela Merkel announced that she was going
to stand again as Chancellor of Germany. There was a
widespread sense of relief. After three terms in office she still
has high popularity ratings both within her own party and in
Germany as a whole. She is widely respected as being one of
the few political leaders in Europe to defend universal moral
values which she has summarized herself as: democracy,
freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity
of each and every person, regardless of their origin, skin
colour and creed, gender, sexual orientation or political views.
In 2015, with Europe in disarray, she emerged as guardian of
the principle of international asylum.
Mrs Merkel has made it clear that she and her government
were hit out of the blue by the mass movements of people that
were triggered by the conflicts of the Middle East. But she has
never distanced herself from the decision to open Germanys
borders to avert a humanitarian crisis in Hungary and has
always rejected calls for an upper limit to asylum seekers. She
has also rejected a banning of people on the basis of their
religious beliefs, claiming that this was incompatible with
Germanys constitution and her own partys ethical
foundations. Following a series of violent attacks on Germany
she affirmed that a rejection of the humanitarian stance we
took could have led to even worse consequences. Assailants,
exclude.
The second point I would like to make is that while a small
number of refugees are welcomed by western democratic
states through programmes of resettlement, spontaneous
arrivals are likely to be treated harshly and induced to leave.
To arrive by unauthorized means is seen by many people as
criminality. Yet as the Refugee Convention acknowledges,
refugees may be obliged to use illicit means of entry to a safe
country. They may never have had documentation or their
papers may have been lost or destroyed in the chaotic
circumstances of their flight. In consequence, host countries
shall not impose penalties. Yet to enter the UK without
papers or with false documentation supplied by a smuggler is
consistently seen by border officials as criminal activity or a
threat to national security.
These spontaneous arrivals are perceived to carry a criminal
virus to a civilized world. Not only do they flout national
boundaries, they typically consort with criminal smuggling
gangs to do so. But they may have little choice. Many are
fleeing for their lives. They may spend their life savings on
securing the services of a people smuggler to take them and
their families to safety in Europe. This may involve a journey
across the desert in a rickety vehicle or across the
Mediterranean or Aegean seas in an unsuitable craft.
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children die on
the way. While Italian coast-guards, Greek fishermen and
other philanthropic individuals do what they can, acting on the
basic moral instinct that when people need help, you save
them, toddlers are still being washed up on the beaches while
the nations of Europe argue over who has responsibility for
sea rescue.
As the catastrophe continues to unfold, Europe continues to
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Day of intercession in
memory of those who have
lost their lives
at the borders of the EU
Information, Intercessions and Ideas
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No homes for 2,470 of our children UN report shames our country
Monday, December 12, 2016
Irish Examiner Editorial
By Caroline O'Doherty
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On 22nd March 2016 the Acting Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, will report
to the Dil on the meeting of the European Council attended by himself
and Acting Minister of State, Dara Murphy TD, in Brussels on 17 and 18
March 2016.
As a group of organisations we are seeking your commitment to the
following:
Outlining the concerns about the EU-Turkey deal and the ways in which
it will place people at risk and undermine Irelands commitment to its
international obligations
Ensuring greater participation in the relocation of asylum seekers and
resettlement of refugees
Advocating for an increase in the number of refugees allowed to settle
in Ireland
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Slow intake by Ireland and human rights
fears about EU plan must be addressed in
Dil statement
Ireland said:
Our political leaders must accept that a humanitarian
crisis needs a humanitarian response and meeting needs
of men, women and children fleeing war and terror must
be central if any solution is to be found.
When the acting Taoiseach makes his Dil statement this
morning he must address concerns around the latest EU
plan and also Irelands response.
Deputy Kenny must clarify what measures are in place to
ensure the deal reached with Turkey will not lead to illegal
mass deportations or undermine the right for people in
danger to seek asylum.
An update on the progress Ireland is making on meeting
its own commitments to refugees is also required. Last
September in response to public outrage the Government
agreed to accept 4,000 refugees yet to date plans have
only been advanced to take 5% of that figure.
In addition the search and rescue operations of the navy
must be urgently restarted as the need for the expertise of
our officers and crews is again great.
Despite recent political spin this crisis is far from over
two children a day are drowning on the Mediterranean
while we are close to 500 lives being lost so far this year.
Even if we are a lonely voice in Europe, Ireland has a duty
to act with humanity and be an example to others. The
Taoiseach can start this process with his Dil statement
today.
ENDS
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Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Co-Founder and President
Emeritus of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), and
President of MPI Europe
UNHCR Ireland
Safe Passage UK
Immigration
Reform and
Law Centre
The Immigrant Council of Ireland is an Independent Law
Centre under the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 2002
(Independent Law Centres) Regulations 2006.
The Immigrant Councils legal team can provide assistance
and legal representation to individuals regarding their
immigration status. This is a free, but limited, service for
particularly complex situations or cases that give rise to
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and appropriate responses to the needs of vulnerable
clients. We are committed to ensuring confidential and
priority access to support services and legal advice. We
view our Specialist Immigration Advocacy Service as an
integral part of our overall strategy of working in
cooperation with other organisations to provide free,
confidential and reliable information, quality legal advice
and representation, as well as appropriate referrals as
necessary.
Contact can be made through the Immigrant Councils
Information and Referral Service on (01) 674
0200 between 10am and 1pm on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays. The Information and Referral
Service is closed on Wednesdays.
The Refugee Legal Service (www.legalaidboard.ie) is
available to asylum or subsidiary protection applicants
who require a free legal advice service. The Refugee Legal
Service also provides legal aid and advice in appropriate
cases on immigration and deportation matters. Other nongovernmental organisations can also provide asylum or
subsidiary protection applicants with information and
support, for example, the Irish Refugee Council
(www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie) and The Integration
Centre (www.integrationcentre.ie).
We are grateful for the continued financial support to our
services from Pobal, the Department of the Environment,
Community and Local Government and the Programme,
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Taoiseach said.
But he added: "We've got to be realistic in
what we can contribute."
Mr Kenny suggested that under the new
scheme the overall EU relocation figure
would be "over 100,000."
"It's not realistic to set a figure on this, but
there will be a real focus following the justice
ministers' meeting, which will arise at the
[heads of government] European Council in
October.
Past experience is that countries will not
measure up if they're asked to do so
voluntarily," the Taoiseach said.
Mr Kenny described the picture of the young
boy on the beach in Turkey as "absolutely
shocking."
He said: "Any parent could see that child in
their own arms. Here was the body of a
young boy, a life lost and wasted, washed up
on a beach."
He said the image would "shock political
processes into taking action.
FF ask Kenny to recall Dil early
over crisis
Fianna Fil has tonight written to the
Taoiseach asking him to recall the Dil to
debate how Ireland can respond to the
refugee crisis.
The party said Ireland can no longer wait for
a pan European response and should instead
lead the way.
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Promoting safe and legal migration channels into Ireland and Europe, for
example a new Humanitarian Admission Programme for Syrians;
Strengthening Irelands support of the globally displaced by adequately
implementing and resourcing the Refugee Protection Programme;
Ensuring that the people currently in the asylum and direct provision systems
are not forgotten, by implementing in full the recommendations in the Report
of the Working Group on the Protection Process and Direct Provision?
Promote integration and combat racism and other hate motivated crimes by:
1 Introducing of hate crime legislation;
2 Ensuring that the measures outlined in the upcoming National
Integration Strategy are implemented and adequately resourced;
3 Legislation and flanking measures to proscribe ethnic profiling
by state agencies and bodies
To support Nascs call, please contact your local TDs and Senators today and
tell them that it is urgent that migration and protection be prioritised in the new
Government.
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Nasc has been to the fore on campaigning for the rights of Irish citizen
children with migrant parents. Following the decision of the Court of Justice of
the European Union in the case Ruiz Zambrano v Office National de LEmploi
(C 34/09) which recognised the rights to reside and work in the State of nonEEA citizen parents of dependent Irish citizen children, Nasc were
instrumental in having the right of unlimited access to the labour market for
parents of Irish citizen children extended to Romanian and Bulgarian parents
of Irish citizen children.
After their accession to the EU, Romanians and Bulgarians were given limited
access to the Irish labour market and were generally required to obtain a work
permit. This disadvantaged Romanian and Bulgarian jobseekers as only
certain types of employment with a renumeration of 30,000 p/a and above
were eligible for work permits.
Arguing that EU law prohibited the State from treating EU citizens less
favourably than their EU counterparts, Nasc referred the case of a Romanian
man with an Irish citizen child to PILA for litigation. The case was settled with
the Department of Justice removing the requirement for work permits for all
Romanian and Bulgarian parents of Irish citizen children. Subsequently the
State removed work permit restrictions for all Romanian and Bulgarian
nationals.
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INIS has recently published new guidelines for family reunification. More
information about the guidelines is available on our Factsheet. Nasc has
welcomed these guidelines but we have concerns about some aspects of the
policy and on the implementation of the guidelines. You can read more about
our concerns here.
The MIPEX index assesses and compares integration policies worldwide.
Irelands family reunion policies score very low indeed on the overall ranking
table, we rank the worst of the 31 countries (EU and North America) surveyed.
Click here to download Nascs submission (pdf) to Irelands Universal Periodic
Review (UPR) at the United Nations General Assembly (including family
reunion concerns).
Watch our 3 minute Better Together video to meet Tracy, her husband
Abdullah, and their baby Malika. Abdullahs first application for permission to
come to live in Ireland with his family was denied. Tracy made a second
application with Nascs assistance, and she and her husband are now living in
Cork together with their daughter.
decision-making on family reunification both within INIS itself and the visa
offices in Irish embassies and consulates throughout the world. However, after
our initial inspection of the policy document, we have considerable concerns,
which are outlined below.
There are several aspects to the policy which we welcome, however
additional clarification on starting dates and details of administrative schemes
is required. We welcome new measures such as the introduction of
provisional entry to the State for the purposes of marriage, the introduction of
standardised application forms, the introduction of interim administrative
permissions for minors under 16, the references to the exceptional
circumstances of domestic violence victims and the commitment to the
establishment of a statutory appeals mechanism which will include family
reunification appeals. We also note that the new policy allows for family
members of sponsors to apply for residence in their own right after five years
of residence in the State.
While we are pleased that the INIS has provided clarity on the necessary
requirements to those who wish to reunite with elderly or dependent parents,
we are concerned that the income thresholds of 60,000 net for one parent
and 75,000 net for two parents for each of three years preceding the
application will bar many Irish and immigrant families from reuniting with their
parents.
We cautiously welcome the proposed introduction of a pre-clearance system
for non-visa required nationals who wish to reside in Ireland and often times
find themselves in a limbo situation while their application is being processed.
However inclusion of this proposal without indicating when this measure may
be introduced and confirming the interim current procedure may be confusing
as it appears to contradict policy contained on other parts of the INIS website.
Issues of Concern
There are several points which we consider quite negative and potentially
very harmful, including consistent reference within the document to decisions
made by family members to voluntarily separate and that the State does not
bear an obligation to reunite the family in these cases. We believe that this is
not reflective of a modern global society where immigration for work purposes
is increasingly common and where instant communication has made it
possible for families to have close links and ties while living thousands of
miles apart.
A major concern is the restrictive economic policies in places for people,
including Irish citizens who wish to reunite with spouses. Comparatively, the
income threshold is quite high and could effectively bar many people from
applying for reunification with their family. For those who are ill or unable to
work due to disability or old age there is no possibility that they will be in a
position to meet the income requirement. Furthermore, we believe that the
seven year bar on making a second spouse or de facto application is
excessive. Worryingly, the policy document refers to the ineligibility of
sponsors who are suspected of contracting a marriage of convenience
without referencing how or when it will be decided that a marriage of
convenience has, in fact, taken place.
The inclusion of the INIS policy on DNA testing is welcome however important
information regarding how long people may expect INIS to retain their biodetails provided in the DNA testing results is omitted. We would ask INIS to
confirm that this information is used only for the purposes for which it is
provided and is not shared with any other State or non State organisations.
In addition, there are a few points which suggest potential developments in
the future that we will be keeping a close eye on, including the possible
introduction of English language tests and knowledge of Irish culture and
society. It is positive that the document mentions that long term residency
should be available however no indication of when or how this might be done
is included. There is currently no permanency of residence for non-EEA
citizens.
Nasc CEO Fiona Finn comments on the new policy:
We are delighted that after years of pushing for changes to family
reunification policy, we are finally seeing some movement towards clarification
of the existing policy. However there are some very worrying aspects to this
document and several areas that require additional clarification.
We call on the Department of Justice to immediately amend the document to
rectify the issues mentioned above. We also ask for the immediate
introduction of the statutory appeals mechanism to ensure families are
reunited as quickly and efficiently as possible. And finally, we will continue to
campaign on behalf of Irish citizens, who remain in limbo without a legal right
to family reunification with their loved ones.
We welcome the states recognition that the current system is in need of
reform across a number of areas and look forward to the publication of the
Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill which is promised to bring greater
clarity to this critical area, Ms Finn adds
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Better Together With Nasc - Bringing
Families Together"
Dec 15, 2011
This is a short film we made with the help of Brian Cronin as
part of the 2011 Better Together (www.bettertogether.ie) video
Cork City.
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Airbnb
As a result, developers are planning to build a lot more
houses, starter homes, for first-time buyers.
Major decision
Writing in TheJournal.ie, Sinn Fin housing spokesman
Eoin Broin said the measures could amount to an
average 4,500 rent hike over the next three years for
renters in Dublin city. Renters in Cork city, meanwhile,
could be hit with a bill for 3,200, he said.
Fianna Fil broadly supports the strategy, but wants the
rent-pressure zones extended to Galway, Limerick,
Waterford and parts of the commuter counties and the 4%
figure lowered.
Now whats happened here really is a procedural
nightmare, education spokesman Thomas Byrne told
RTs Morning Ireland today.
Once again, coming up to Christmas, the government is
going to make a major decision which is going to have
major consequences.
And, quite frankly, in this case, were going to have to
take action. Because its extremely market-sensitive, and if
action isnt taken this week, then the rental market could
go off
He added: This is extremely sensitive, not only in terms
of the rental market but also the stock exchange, and the
Dil cant be in that space. We must show the public that
we can actually effect change, and make a real difference
in peoples lives.
Crazy
Byrne said Fianna Fil housing spokesman Barry Cowen
has been in discussions with Minister Coveney regarding
the 4%, and the geographic areas covered by the measures.
Fine Gael junior minister Damien English last night ruled
out any change to the 4% measure on RTs Primetime.
Byrne said Fianna Fil could in theory amend the
governments measures without Fine Gael support, but
added:
We want to engage in fruitful discussions on this with the
government.
He said the ministers approach has resulted in procedural
chaos.
Our teams have been working throughout the night on
this, and government have been as well. Its not the way to
do this.
The government is tabling this not as an existing bill, but
as four-stage amendments to an existing bill thats already
Landlords
Asked whether Fianna Fil would link proposed tax breaks
for landlords with greater security for tenants, Byrne said
the Constitution precludes an opposition party from
tabling a finance bill.
Byrne said the partys proposals are somewhere in
between the 4% cap and linking rent increases to the
consumer price index.
The partys proposals are based on the average of rents
over the past five years, allowing for increases in some
areas but a ban on increases in other areas.
We think the 4% is just too high its a price increase. It
certainly should be lower, Im not going to put a figure on
it.
As of October, there were 3,486 homeless adults and
children in the State, three times what the figure was three
years ago.
There are 142 people, meanwhile, sleeping rough in
Dublin city alone.
Certainly the housing supply needs to be increased,
Byrne said.
And thats not happening fast enough, because they need
houses a lot of the single people who are homeless would
be ideal for bedsits.
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EU rules
The question of whether Ireland is prevented by EU rules
from spending more money to build social housing was
also raised today. If we could, we would spend more,
Coveney maintained.
He said his department was speaking to agencies such as
the NTMA about funding vehicles that could finance social
housing. He pointed to a model being used by Nama in
which they pay for the building of houses and lease them
long-term to approved housing bodies, which then sublet
them to social housing tenants.
Coveney said this ensures the matter is off-balance sheet.
We do need to get clarity from Eurostat on what works and
what doesnt.
He said there were cases in the UK where social housing
had been built and deemed off-balance sheet, only to be
told by Eurostat, the EUs statistics agency, that it is in fact
on-balance sheet.
It has caused huge problems there, so we want to avoid
that problem, he said, adding that it would take time to
clarify.
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Tight lending
McCartney said that although these large companies
aimed to buy at the lowest price possible, their presence
had the effect of pushing prices up for everyone else.
Dn Laoghaire-Rathdown
Overall, the new CSO data showed that the national
average house price in 2015 was 225,783, although there
were huge variations across the country.
The most expensive area was Dn Laoghaire-Rathdown,
where households paid an average of 568,980 to buy a
house.
Second and third most expensive in 2015 were the Dublin
city and Fingal administrative areas, where the average
house price was 389,022 and 336,310 respectively.
The least expensive place to buy a house in 2015 was
Longford, where the average price paid was just under
80,000. The second and third least expensive places
were Roscommon and Leitrim, with average prices of
94,105 and 94,572 respectively.
The data also shows that Irelands property crash was
more severe than previously thought. According to the
CSO house prices fell by 54.4% after the property bubble
burst in 2007, more than the previous estimate of 51%,
before beginning to recover in Dublin in 2012.
Cork city and is due to come into effect in the new year.
Mr Coveney has already had to overcome worries in his
own Fine Gael party about the plan, with Taoiseach
Enda Kenny, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan,
Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe and
Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar among
those concerned about its potential effect on the rental
market and investment in the sector.
The rent predictability plan sets out proposals for socalled rent pressure zones and imposing limitations
on the level of rent increases allowable on residential
properties in these zones. The designation will apply
for three years and would mean landlords can only
increase rents by 4 per cent a year in that period.
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Fianna Fil has objected to the 4 per cent rent cap,
saying it favours a 2 per cent threshold, but it is open
to compromise on the matter.
It is also concerned that the scheme will initially be
confined to just Dublin and Cork city, although Mr
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The new plan will also strengthen of the role and powers of
the Residential Tenancies Board the agency set up in
2004 to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants.
The measures include boosted dispute resolution
timeframes (time for appeals will be cut from 21 to ten
days and one person tribunals will be held in some cases
allowing for more tribunals to take place). The law in the
area would also be simplified, according to the plan
announced this afternoon.
Todays measures follow changes introduced last year by
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Fianna Fil has objected to the 4 per cent rent cap,
saying it favours a 2 per cent threshold, but it is open
to compromise on the matter.
It is also concerned that the scheme will initially be
confined to just Dublin and Cork city, although Mr
Coveney has said other areas may be included from
next March.
Fianna Fils housing spokesman, Barry Cowen, will
meet his Sinn Fin counterpart, Eoin Broin, to
consider joint amendments to the legislation.
Mr Varadkar raised concerns at Tuesdays Cabinet
meeting over the effect the plan will have on rents in
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Fine Gael and Fianna Fil appear no closer to agreement on
Ms Zappone said that to every living child in some inner Dublin city,
their responses would be the opposite of what she expects to hear
CHILD MIGRANT
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December 14, 2016
JAYDA FRANSEN
A Muslim taxi driver who claimed he was the son of a
Taliban leader has been jailed for 18 years for violent
rapes.
Ghairat Khan, 26, claimed to be from Afghanistan and only
15 when he arrived in the UK to qualify him for asylum
but the authorities now believe that he is from Pakistan
and was lying about his age.
After he was threatened with deportation in an immigration
age row, Khan went to Teesside where he violently raped
two women.
Khan, formerly of Bowesfield Lane, Stockton, was jailed
for 18 years, ordered to register as a sex offender for life,
and given an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order
after the court learnt he raped his victims a number of
times then subsequently threatened them over the phone.
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