Results 23,541-23,560 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of course, the Deputy ran a mile from it himself when he had responsibility for this area. At least the Minister, Deputy Reilly, has faced up to the challenge and is doing something about it. For 2013, as set out in the HSE service plan, the target maximum wait for inpatient and day case procedures is eight months for adults and 20 weeks for children. The waiting time for a routine GI...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is not a simple matter to sort out either. I spoke to somebody on the street the other night from a county outside Dublin who had had a row with his spouse, was on the streets and, according to himself, will be on them for a couple of weeks. At this time of the year, this issue becomes much more of a focus both for agencies dealing with it and because of the time of the year when the...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I give the Deputy credit for holding a continuous masters degree for speaking out of the side of her own mouth.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The party she represents is expert at that. I do not come in here to tell the Deputy yarns about people I meet on the street.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy thinks that is some kind of smart alec reply, she is very much mistaken.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald said to me that I did not understand what was happening on the streets. Name me a predecessor of mine in this position who took time to go down the streets and talk to these people and-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who took time to try to understand what has them on the streets, the personal, sensitive difficulties unique to them that they might have.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy thinks that it is just a yarn to say that a person tells me where he or she hides a sleeping bag and bits and pieces during the course of the day, if Deputy McDonald believes that this is some kind of smart alec remark, then it is beneath even her to do that, representing the party she represents.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I think that homelessness is not just a feature of housing accommodation. There are a range of things that Deputy McDonald has not referred to at all. The Government is revising a public housing policy for the first time in a number of years. It is a requirement and a focus of the Government to work with NAMA, which has units available to it, on all these sources to make these available.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: There were quite a number promised; they have not been delivered.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is also a function of the city council. Why am I being told by Deputies from my own party that there are houses and units derelict and left vacant in this city for a very long time that could provide good accommodation, not bed and breakfasts-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----not one-bedroom apartments, for families and for people like that?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is a case of the moneys that are provided, scarce though they are, from the central Exchequer-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----being delivered to best effect. This is an issue that is not new, unfortunately. It is an issue that has fluctuated over the years, but it is a case of organisations and State agencies and Departments and Government working together in the interests of recognising the scale of the problem and how many houses one needs to provide to people.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is an engagement also with the agencies that work here-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----which have different ranges of figures being put out here for homelessness.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not an issue the Sinn Féin Party owns. This is about everybody here. These are, in most cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: In all cases, they are people who are in our country-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and who are around the bigger cities in the main.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have a duty from a humanity point of view to try to deal with these in the best way possible-----