Results 25,561-25,580 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I said before to the Deputy previously, the hallmark of the previous Government's catastrophic failure was Priory Hall. It put people into those kinds of housing units.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yet again this Government has to come along and clean up the mess.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I make no apology for saying I do not accept anybody's assertions that this Government, in cleaning up this mess, will go down the road of creating a further housing bubble.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: There are 100,000 people on the live register who were involved in the construction industry, including plasterers, block-layers, chippies, tillers, roofers and everything else. We want these people to have an opportunity to get back into the world of work. We want families, young people and those starting on the housing ladder get top-quality housing at affordable prices, not like what we...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is about people, our economy and jobs for the future.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I met a young mother yesterday evening on one of the streets where I was canvassing. She had three children under five and she cried bitter tears in that she had been sent to a very small apartment with inadequate facilities in an area that is used by drug pushers and drug users. It was a very powerful statement made by this young mother. At the height of the boom in 2006-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps we should also talk about the past as well.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: In 2006 there were 93,000 housing units completed. The corresponding figure for last year was 8,000, a reduction of 91%. We have a construction sector that is about half the size it should be and is very much below European standards. We should be building 25,000 to 30,000 houses a year.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is why some €88 million has gone into the coffers of the Minister of State with responsibility for housing for social housing. It is why NAMA wants to provide 4,500 houses over the next two to three years. It is why we want to see a return to the construction sector with the hopeful creation of 60,000 jobs between now and 2020.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: We need to have a process for dealing with the valid claims of young couples and young people to get a start on the housing ladder with affordable quality housing built by people who know what they are doing. We do not want to have apartment after apartment fired up and after they are occupied we discover they either have pyrite or are like Priory Hall. We are not going back there. We will...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is not what his leader says.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Block the ears.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy. Her question and comment at the beginning related to the situation that has applied from the foundation of the State up to the present time where the Commissioner of the day was always responsible for the day-to-day running of the Garda force and the Minister for Justice of the day, with few exceptions in the past, did not interfere with that. Obviously, there would be...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Murphy. Her points are valid in respect of morale being a requirement, that people have pride in the job they do and that they Garda force, as a unit, has high morale. There are a number of things on which the Minister will be able to work to improve that in the shorter term. Clearly, in terms of the force itself as a professional competent force, issues have been identified...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 4, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 10 - motion re: establishment of joint committee of inquiry into the banking crisis. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. 10 shall be taken at 4 p.m. today and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the first question, I note that the Secretary General is attending the committee tomorrow to deal with the issues arising from the Guerin report. Deputy Martin is well aware that because of other matters, a commission of investigation has been set up and an appointment has been made of a Supreme Court judge to deal with a range of matters which include the subject of the first...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin asked me about the White Paper. The consultation process is now beginning on the White Paper. It will focus on the range of services-----
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will have to come back to the Deputy on the matter which is the responsibility of the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is a Green Paper which allows everybody to have their say. As Deputy Adams is aware, there is a legal ban-----