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ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ALAN Kelly has hit out at “anonymous” government colleagues following criticism of his efforts to solve the housing and rental crisis.
Kelly has been the subject of two days of negative stories about him in the Irish Independent over ongoing efforts to introduce new measures on rent.
Kelly wants to introduce ‘rent certainty’ which would link residential rental prices to the consumer price index for a period of time, but Fine Gael is opposing this.
The Irish Independent yesterday quoted a senior government source describing Kelly as “the single biggest cause of rent hikes” in the last six months.
Today the paper claims Kelly turned down a Budget deal to provide rent certainty to low-income families on rent supplement. Kelly today denied this was the case and said discussions are ongoing.
Speaking in Athy today, Kelly was also having none of the references to him as ‘Calamity Kelly’ by anonymous colleagues, saying:
“I take no notice of anonymous commentary. If people are cowardly and they don’t want to put their names to stuff that’s their own business. I don’t get worried about anonymous press officer briefings basically taking on myself, or making comments about myself.
He said he had come through an awful lot, including “many death threats” so was not bothered by such briefings.
Kelly said there was no rent deal on the table before the Budget, insisting: ”If there was a package on the table, I’d say it out straight.”
Referring to himself in the third person, the Labour deputy leader said he needed cooperation from a range of bodies in order to solve the housing crisis:
Alan Kelly on his own cannot solve this issue.
He was speaking at the announcement of an €8 million investment in Athy, Co Kildare to convert the old Dominican church into a library and construct social housing on the old church grounds.
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Kelly has been getting negative press for a lot longer than a couple of day’s!!
labour traitors
He is a complete moron , On his website he makes the point he started University at 16 years of age , Who does that ?
Lets hope the Home Taxing Fine Gael party get wiped out in election.
Alan Kelly the minister for misery what a obnoxious person he is
I made this prediction 12 months ago, FG would drop kick Labour through the goal posts of life, when the time was right. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=871092939664299&id=100002908022520
‘Tis coming very close to the end of Kelly’s political career- and he knows it !
He gets tetchier by the day – heard him on the radio – he seems to have completely lost his way – other then arrogance and and bad manners , he has nothing left in the tank , having been $crewed by his “Bosses” in FG !!!
Blueshirts would have these FG traitors to Ireland, strung up
@ Midland – somebody whos mother sent them to school the day after their 4th birthday and nothing to do with how bright or intelligent the person is.
He needs to grow up.
Well face crooks removed my little video of Kelly
Exactly my point , He was only impressing himself with that fact
And the People of Ireland will drop kick FG. And all done rid of both parties in one swoop.
At least his gang (Brendan Howlin) got the Haddington Road Agreement re visited and lots of goodies back in the wage packet again.
A big achievement for the Labour Party gillies, of the big trade unions.
Hardly surprising he was only elected to the Dail at the last election and has already got to within a heartbeat of the tanaiste role by being aggressively assertive with having any ethical or political framework. What does he actually stand for? promising everything to everyone, making no hard choices and thinks he can buy off voters by building a toepath from Clonmel to Carrick of Suir while closing down the council offices in Clonmel. So utterly out of his depth and wouldn’t be there if it was for some generous private backing
What does he stand for? Whinging by the looks of it, it’s all he seems to do these days. Laughable that he considers himself some kind of big shot bully boy
calamity kelly is politically toxix,,if ever you need to know what happened to the labour party look no further than calamity kelly
David, Kelly stands for his brother and no one else.
This plank needs nailing! Please do so at the next election. Kelly guess you will be working with your brother or maybe Denis will give you a plum job?
I’d almost move to Tipperary, just so as I could NOT vote for him…
Kelly wanted rent control, FG said no. He didn’t get it. This tells you all you need to know about the past 4 years and why labour are facing decimation at the next GE.
The guy is a Moron but a well paid one with a nice cushy pension
Ahh please. … that’s not being fair to morons. They show far more intelligence than this gobs#!te.
Lab have Howlin too remember. His silence on this has been deafening.
I’d expect a massive public row on this to start up soon and Kelly has thrown the first grenade today.
Just shows how inept they are that they can’t keep it together long enough for the election.
He is an idiot amyway, not surprised his fellow party members are talking about him.
I thought we were all on board with calling him Comical Kelly.
A landlord should be allowed charge whatever he likes for the rent of his property and renters allowed to say yes or no to that price.
Is the government want to cap rents charged then they should build homes for people and charge whatever they like.
The housing crisis is the governments fault and problem not people renting homes
Ah, the glory of capitalism at work.
will tjat also go for amenities as well. lets give electricity, gas and oil companies a free hand after all they own the business. oh and lets quickly privatise water asap so they can join this gouging market…
Angry Alan?
No they shouldn’t. If thats the case anyone who is selling or renting anything can do the same what a farce this Country would be, if the cost of living goes up half % thats all Landlords should be allowed to charge. Per usual people filling their pockets at the hands of those less well off.
Alan Kelly, champion of Irish Water, has suddenly discovered he’s supposed to be a socialist. No going back Kelly, you’ve made your bed.
He was given the poisoned chalice and now he has to drink from it. Noonan is the real problem here. He’s the one with the money.
A socialist in a part that threatened to lock out its workers I because they objected to their fourth pay decrease.
You arrogant little man. Way out of your depth. You can kiss your ass goodbye come the GE.
How would he kiss his own ass goodbye ?
i hope so but doubt it – he’s very well liked in his own constituency…hope I’m wrong tho!
frantix, this is the same constituency that elects Michael Lowry and Noel Coonan, basket cases the lot of them. Unfortunately these ar*eholes are inflicted on the rest of us too.
Also… “I don’t get worried about anonymous press officer briefings basically taking on myself, or making comments about myself.”
The word you’re looking for is ‘me’, Alan. I’m sure you’re quite familiar with it. It’s only “myself” if you’re the one making the comments.
This is the level of intellect we have in charge.
I’m surprised he didn’t refer to a “sinister fringe” within the government.
Getting Pedd is all that matters
The sick thing is this lad is in a position to affect a lot of people’s lives. It’s dangerous.
So I believe. He obviously wasn’t ready because you should at least be able to speak one language by the time you go to college.
Somebody said he brags about that on his website. That says it all really.
Thought I’d have a little look… found this on his website:
“He was educated in Portroe National School and Nenagh CBS, before going on at 16 years of age to study English and History in UCC, including a masters in politics. He Spent his summers working in a local meat factory to see his way through college.”
Extremely badly written! The first line is poorly structured. ‘Masters’ should start with a capital letter; ‘spent’ should not. This is not good advertising for UCC, considering he studied English there :)
This is what I would call a spoofer and I wouldn’t mind but for the fear he has instilled in my parents and a lot of naive people who believed his threats. I can not wait to see the back of him.
If Mr Kelly isn’t able or up to the job, he shouldn’t have taken/demanded it.
The Irish Indo uncritically prints FG spin. Not exactly news
This is surely about pre election wranging as Lab and Kelly see they are about to get hammered. Hardly underserved given what they have overseen. TweedleDum and TweedleDee are falling out.
Ever paper prints spin from the government of the day. Ministers leak information in return for spin. No coincidence Leo Varadkar go so much positive publicity when he does nothing but leak info in return for it. Michael Martin before him also forged a career out of it.
You can call the Indo pro FG if you like, but they’ll be pro any party in government and the IT are even worse.
Mark, I have been letting a small home to the same family for 13 years. Because they have been great tenants and looked after the place, I never really bothered with rent increases as the cost of vacancy and a bad tenant would outweigh any extra income for me. Also, the tenants have a family and a lot of ties with the area, and I don’t want to be the one disrupting that. I could have raised the rent by 40% judging by daft.ie properties letting in the same area. However, all these leaks by Kelly into what he was going to do to limit rent increases, led me to have to raise the rent in the next review, at the risk of being tied in permanently to a low rent, and devaluing my property if it came to sale. Not, to full market rent, but nonetheless an increase the tenant could have done without. The Indo, which is a rag of a newspaper, is right on this occasion. There needs to be an end to the spinning, and Kelly needs to get his thumb out and deal with the underlying issue of over-expensive build costs which is obscuring the market.
AK 47 as he likes to be called more like a water pistol an idiot of the highest order
This guy must have an assistant to remind him who he is and bis position on a daily basis. The minister allocates the funding and you allocate squat.
If the dunces hat fits, wear it.
He’s getting his just desserts for being a FG lapdog.
Don’t know what it is but I don’t like that fella.
Why does the picture look like the cover to the single worst hip hop album ever.
toddle along there Kelly…… and do let the door hit you on the way out….
Well as soon as you go third person you’re gone really, beyond the point of no return, so far up your own behind.
If that was a new phenomenon you could put it down to pressure but the third person thing has been on the go for at least 4 and a half years and probably since he was 7, that age of enlightenment when ambitions become clear.
Kelly, White and the Jobstown vuvuzela, who is worse?
Calling her a Vuvuzela is probably the best chance she will get of being mentioned in the context of a horn, De Wit.
Alan Kelly you are a waste of space, it won’t be long now before the axe falls on you and all the other wasters
Memo too Alan Kelly: I will not be anonymous but you are a self serving arrogant individual.
Great actor so he is .. He’s a bigger rat than splinter from the turtles movie … Also he has taken over the roll of jim Carey in the movie liar liar
Lol.
Fantastic news, well done Alan for moving closer to the door. Prat!
Alan Kelly talked the talk, now when the chips are down he can`t walk the walk.you reap what you sow Alan, and you have sown the seeds for a lot of things that are coming your way. Hopefully you will be just a memory come the GE
Me, Myself and Allen.
I would like to ask him how it feels to be in cahoots with an extreme right wing party. He was happy enough to continue with Phil Hogan’s “Hard Decision” on Water Charges, and clapped on the back by FG for this. But try to introduce any “Socialist” rent control of whatever hue, and they’ll drop him like a hot potato.
I’d support him on the idea of rent certainty.
But any interference in the private market would be anathema to Fine Gael, and he should have known that.
In any case if this is a volte-face then the position has been forced on him through pressure from social groups outside government. There’s no real credit in that.
He’s having a bad run as a minister and getting slapped down in public like this doesn’t do his cause any good.
(Joan Burton escaping public censure as usual for her department’s role in the homeless crisis – how she gets away with it is beyond comprehension at this stage – must be a feminist no go zone)
He knew that already Tommy, this is just playing to the gallery. Look at his family and connections, how the hell does the likes of him qualify to be a Labour TD.
this is the guy that said that he’d be happy to cover people against the privatisation with excrement, and this is meant to be a Labour man, I’ve met people who are adamant that he’s actually in fine Gael such is his rhetoric.
sorry privatisation of water.
Really cant stand this guy. Would be surprised if he gets re elected.
Kelly, the spawn of Satan or Hogan ….. take your pick. Karma coming right back at ye Alan.
This has really got beyond a joke – One thousand and one reasons why nothing can be done about anything – unless it involves tax hikes for PAYE workers – that’s about the size of it. Hey, Alan, Rashers Tierney can’t do everything on his own either, but then he doesn’t have access to the levers of power, or the people who call the shots. Man up you waster and do something to justify your wages.
@Martin
The constituencies have been redrawn..That man of many pies and fingers m.lowry is running advertising in the south Tipp area looking for assistance in the upcoming election,he has lost as many as 3000 first preference votes in the changes..the same will apply to Kelly,.people of the former Tipp south will have a say this time..and neither men are popular.
Up Tipp South.!
What happened to Labours way or Frankfort’s way… talk and lies
how come that no ones been arrested over these death threats, can’t they trace calls these days, I don’t believe it at all.
Kelly is the lad who made comments about TDs receiving bullets in the post, days before a TD actually received bullets in the post.
I think the powder was a sample of the new instant water IW sent to him. Just mix the powder with water and you get water!
When ever the bomb squad is called to his office they send the robot, not because they really think there is a bomb there, its just that way they don’t have to speak to him.
This is a man who’s power has gone to his head On his climb up the political ladder . Tread carefully on way down mr Kelly.
FG see the dislike for Kelly amongst the electorate, and with election around the corner, they will slate the weaker side “Liebour” . Attacking Kelly is a sly move and one a wiser electorate will see through. Whist I have no time for Kelly or Labour, I believe FG are the sly ones. Both these parties will pay soon..
doesn’t anyone like him?
Jesus you’d never get tired slapping the head off this culchie tw*t ..EVER !
At least when Minister Alan Kelly loses his Ministerial office, he has a choice between a very short career in Irish Water or a longer career in the Construction Industry Federation. Minister Kelly is loyal to vested interests but not to his paymasters, the citizens of Ireland.
It’s unoleasant to see a man snivelling and feebly trying to throw blame into others.
Using the third person in referring to yourself is an attempt to disassociate from yourself. It’s often employed by people knowing that they are not telling the truth and putting distance. On the other hand, it is often employed by arrogant creeps to give themselves a sense of underserved status when under pressure.
So the choice is between a liar or a raving egotist or, in some cases, a combination of both.
This Miniser knows nothing about housing. He expects the private sector to solve a oublic problem. That will never happen.
Housing is far too important to leave 100% of housing delivery to a profit driven private sector.
Minister Alan Kelly, deputy leader of the Provisional Right Wing Labiour Part answering to a Giverning Council headed by Kenny, Noonan and DOB.
Self pity is no pity Kelly has himself to blame not so much the big man now is he . Then they try tell is no rift between coalition . That’s the biggest lie they told
he is a liar,wipe them out in GE.we want politics cleaned up,so start with crushing these government parties in GE.
I am thinking Joan myself, what about you as after the next election Joan will have to go and Kelly then might become the new leader then???
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Good bye Alan Kelly you will be gone in the next election and hopefully never heard from again. Too cocky for my liking. No empathy. Looking after the family with the bro in Teneo. I think thats the name of the Company.
Kelly has been responsible for one disaster after another, it’s all been very well documented. If that man was employed anywhere else and turned in a job performance like he’s done while in government he’d be sacked. I wouldn’t let that mucksavage in charge of a chicken, thank God he’l be gone back to obscurity soon,
Dear Minister of Environment,
I have a question to ask you on how did you see it fit for the Irish people to priorities the spending on the water infrastructure to start charging for something that is not needed vs. spending the money on securing the welfare of those irish community. It is a shame to have people go through the ordeal of this because of no empathy and no clear focus on what is right to do for the people.
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