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Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy started out by talking about homelessness and then she mentioned 90,000 people.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: She should not get them confused in that there is pressure on the construction sector and pressure on for housing. We will have the full debate on housing here shortly.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: I would like to hear Deputy Collins's proposition that will bring about an immediate response. We know from the homelessness agencies about the people who are homeless.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: We know the support, including financial support, that is being given to them. One cannot just put them into prefabricated buildings here, there and everywhere. There is a process to be gone through.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy does not wish to hear the truth, do not listen to it. A process must be gone through to provide proper housing accommodation for people who need it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: That means blocks, concrete, bricks and mortar. It means one must put in place a process to know what must be provided and go through the proper channels to secure planning permission and so forth. We have said quite clearly that the construction sector must step up to the mark. We cannot have any more pyrite and Priory Halls. Of course it is a priority for the people who are homeless.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: God love them, we are anxious to do something for them as quickly as possible. However, the Deputy will not get an answer to her question tomorrow. There is a process to be gone through, including planning, the provision of sites and the provision of finance to build these houses and move people into them. Even the Deputy knows one cannot do that in the space of a couple of months. What...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes, and it has gone on all during the years, Deputy Cowen. The Deputy is not responsible for any of this, but we know what happened-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----and we are still paying the price. God knows, the people who are homeless on the streets and those who need housing are paying the price of greed and profligacy and money being fired around this country like confetti during the so-called boom years.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: We must clean up that mess too, and we will.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: This matter was decided last Thursday.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Last week, without even being asked for it, the Government gave Members not only a debate and statements but also questions and answers. It is a measure of how generous we can be but, of course, the Deputy will not mention that.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed, notwithstanding Standing Orders-----

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the order of Dáil of 27 February regarding the arrangements for the statements on the Government's priorities for the year ahead, that the statements of each other Member called upon after the opening statements shall not exceed 30 minutes in each case.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the contrary.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Neither true nor fair.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: This matter was agreed to yesterday over the telephone with Deputies Seán Ó Fearghaíl and Aengus Ó Snodaigh. Then Fianna Fáil wanted to change the arrangement again, which is why I read out a revised Order of Business today in order that Opposition spokespersons could come in directly after Ministers. That is why it was changed, despite the fact that it had been...

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: This was agreed to yesterday. Then the Deputy wanted it to be changed and I have changed it for him.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: No. We are now going to have statements.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: There will be plenty of time to ask plenty of questions.