Results 22,601-22,620 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Some 80,000 mortgages have been restructured, with 24,000 new restructures in the last quarter. The Central Bank has indicated that 76.5% of those restructures were deemed to meet the terms of sustainable and restructured arrangements. That fact is verified by the Central Bank.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Central Bank is to audit the figures submitted by the banks to the Central Bank as their regulator. We will know the true facts when it does that.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It takes a long time to uncover the dark depths of what Deputy Martin's Government left behind here.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The people of this country will never let Fianna Fáil forget that its conduct has wreaked havoc and caused crises in family after family. This Government has put in place a suite of measures - a range of options - that will allow for those persons who are in distress with their mortgages to have one of these solutions put in place to get them out of it.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Martin's assertion that this Government has done nothing about it. I am not happy with the situation that the banks have not come up to the mark.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They have all the options. They have the suite of measures. The regulator is the Central Bank.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: With Deputy Martin's style of engagement, he never listens to anybody.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Ar dtús, chuir an Teachta ceist orm faoi thuarascáil Grant Thornton i leith rud éigin eile. Tá a fhios ag gach duine, mar a luaigh mé sa Dáil le cúpla lá anuas agus níos mó ná uair amháin, go caithfidh an fhaisnéis iomlán a bheith ag duine sula mbeidh sé in ann réiteach a dhéanamh nó rún a mholadh...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The challenge facing the Government and our country is to continue on the steady path that the Government has plotted and our Minister for Finance has followed, to keep our economy in order, to provide opportunities for job creation and therefore economic growth, to take our country, through this budget, out of the bailout and give us a chance to restore our economic independence, and to give...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, the Economic Management Council is meeting today and now that I have an opportunity, I refute the myth and the allegations surrounding the council that it is some sort of quartet that makes all decisions for the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is nothing other than a myth being used by people who want to put forward the proposition that there is some sort of autocratic, dictatorial body. The Constitution which I defend -----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: ----- means that the Government has collective responsibility for budgets and that it is accountable to this House.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not accountable to the EMC, a facility to streamline measures for consideration and decision by the Government. The Cabinet has collective responsibility and meets in full.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams asked what was different. That is a legitimate question, but sometimes Members do not want to hear the answer. What is different is that we are not blocked out of the international markets. Our integrity is not in shreds; our reputation has been restored; interest rates on international markets are not 15%; we have dealt with the promissory note, got interest rate...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments and questions. Clearly, there is an increase in the number of applicants for adequate and proper housing, many of whom are on local authority lists. NAMA has offered 4,000 houses, of which, I think, 2,000 have been taken up by local authorities.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Significant numbers of families are living in very small apartments, which is causing frustration and concern for many. I met the Construction Industry Federation the other day and I am aware that there are quite a number of good contractors and developers who have never been in NAMA and are not in the league of those deemed to be rogue builders or cowboys. The people concerned want to see...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Compassion and common decency are not exclusive to members of the Opposition.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is why we listened to the sad saga of the women who were in the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is why we are acting in respect of the people evacuated from their firetrap houses in Priory Hall. It is why the Minister of State with responsibility for housing, Deputy O'Sullivan, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government met NAMA last week to discuss-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am making the point to Deputy Healy in direct response to his comment that compassion and common decency are exclusive to people on that side of the House.