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Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is a difficult position. The Government has been at pains to set out that we want to protect home ownership where it is at all possible. The only resort should be a last resort in respect of home repossessions. This is not the situation that applies in other countries but in this country home ownership is of particular importance to people and rightly so.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: There are 100,000 mortgages in distress and we want to ensure in so far as it is possible that the vast majority of those people can have resolution brought about to their mortgage problems and are able to plan their lives accordingly and have the opportunity to contribute to their local economy and society in general. Everyone understands that this is what is required. Given the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: What Deputy Halligan is suggesting sounds great but the rest of the taxpayers would have to pay for it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Let us suppose we took 50,000 cases, 100,000 cases or 500,000 cases and reduced their valuations to the current valuation. Someone must pay for it. What is Deputy Halligan's suggestion?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: What is Deputy Halligan's suggestion? Someone must pay for it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Halligan speaks of the individual but someone must pay for the individual. That is why the changes are being made.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is in order that there can be a process and a series of arrangements that individuals can make to work out a resolution in their particular circumstances. That is required through the bank or the lender sitting down with such people, the question of the insolvency agency and an individual's rights beyond that. Obviously, if an individual goes to the insolvency agency the professional...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: What must apply is a degree of common sense, taking into account the full range of opportunities and arrangements that can be put in place by both borrower and lender to achieve a resolution and give the primary responsibility, in so far as it is humanly possible, to retaining home ownership for the people involved. It has been pointed out on many occasions that in this country repossession...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. I have had no direct contact with the IFSC Clearing House Group recently. My last direct contact was a brief meeting when the strategy for the international financial services industry was launched in July 2011. That group is chaired by the Secretary General of my Department, as has been the case since its inception in 1987. ...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party has not made the same case in Northern Ireland where property taxes apply and its representatives support these on the basis of the provision of local services. The local property tax is for the purpose of contributing to the provision of public services for people all over the country. The mechanics of the tax have been worked out by the Revenue Commissioners. Half of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald has attempted to change the household charge into a property tax. The first lesson she should learn is that they are different things.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: The second issue is that the refuse charge and the property charge in the Republic will still be very much less than the taxes imposed in Northern Ireland, which are on average three times greater. Deputy McDonald should do her own homework on her friends and supporters up there as to what they are actually paying.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am not at all happy that Deputy McDonald should know whether I am happy or not about issues such as this. She does not need to put words in my mouth. She has been doing that for years with other parties and other individuals.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald does not speak for me or the Fine Gael Party. In respect of the household charge last year, the survey carried out in 2012 was purely and objectively based on the actual state of completion of a development. It expressly included estates deemed by local authorities to have seriously problematic conditions, regardless of whether the developer was on or off the site. This...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: It also includes issues such as having an access road to at least a base course level including, where required, provision for parking and provision of access to the dwelling by a constructed footpath. These are issues that are deemed to be seriously problematic. It ill behoves the Deputy to cast aspersions on one of the most brilliant young candidates I have seen in any election, Helen...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: She comes from a particular stock. As we spoke so eloquently of her late father, I can assure Deputy McDonald that, but for his persistence and commitment, the issue of pyrite-affected houses might never have seen the progress it has made now.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Depending on the decision of the people of Meath East tomorrow, if Ms McEntee is elected as a Government Deputy, she will, of course, be quite entitled to lobby the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of these conditions for any estate in east Meath as might apply.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is open to any Government Deputy or any other Deputy to make a case in that regard. I hope Deputy McDonald might reflect upon the aspersions she has cast upon a brilliant young candidate with a very bright future.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am very careful to recognise the fundamentally important job that gardaí do in putting themselves between criminals and law-abiding citizens. Deputy Martin is well aware that rank and file gardaí are not in a trade union and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors is not a trade union. However, for years, in discussions and negotiations about pay and conditions, rank...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's attempts to court popularity with the Garda in a blatantly political fashion.