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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: A good old rant there from Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy stated that we are all in favour of jobs. Of course we are.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy regard someone seeking to regularise the position in Dundalk as being an example of poverty and inequality? There, people who are on the live register drawing unemployment are encouraged, interviewed and well able to meet the targets set for a major company. They now have permanent jobs and move on from being on the social welfare or social protection list. Deputy Boyd...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett seems to think that this is where they should be left.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I disagree profoundly with Deputy Boyd Barrett on the matter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: A system applied for donkey's years in the country whereby those on the live register were seen as a list of disillusioned disappointed people who had nothing to offer other than to draw on the taxes of others who paid for them. That has changed now. The new Intreo offices introduced by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, bring about a situation whereby these people are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The committee published Pathways to Work and the Action Plan for Jobs and this is where the key to future prosperity lies. It is not about languishing on live register lists; it is about being given the opportunity, incentive and motivation to upskill, retrain and move on to where jobs are being created. Progress has been made. Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to the indicators going in the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: How is that in the wrong direction? How is it that today we are rated No. 1 in the world for country humanity, to use a term?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: How is it that we have the fastest growth rate in the European Union? Does that impact on people or not?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Am I wrong in seeing figures suggesting that every week that passes between 1,000 and 1,200 people, mostly or some of whom are young people who have been out of work, are going back into the world of work? Am I wrong in seeing those figures? Is that not an indicator going in the right direction? I believe that it is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett that we can have a situation whereby the working poor suffer from inequality and poverty but the job of Government is to grow the economy to a point where that disappears and where these people know that they are contributing for their futures and for the economy. It is not possible to do that unless we get them to have the opportunity to have work and not be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not. We need to provide proper pipework and pristine water for everyone as an indicator of what progress actually is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: We cannot do it without setting up an entity that can borrow off the Government balance sheets to provide the infrastructure and have the facility for everyone. I agree that this is a problem for everyone. Surely in 2014 we should be able to provide good quality, comfortable, warm and affordable housing for people. As I have said, we went from 90,000 houses to 8,000 houses. Why is it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is nonsense. These people should be told in advance that the will get No. 7 or No. 12 or whatever it is. I hear all of these arguments but we have 100,000 people on the live register who have experience in the building and contracting business. These are good competent people. That is where we need to be and it is not only a matter of social housing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: NAMA has offered 4,000 units and local authorities have already taken up 2,000 of these. We are now monitoring the progress on the 1,800 units to be fixed. However, we also need the private sector to step up to the mark.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: They were well able to build 80,000 houses in the so-called boom years and had people buying them over the telephone ten or 12 at a time. Now we need to be able to provide proper, affordable, good quality, warm, comfortable houses for families who need them and that is the focus of Government. This is an indicator of progress as distinct from squalor, as pointed out by Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have read out the list of issues dealt with by the social policy committee, including the discussions that took place about the national ageing strategy, the national carers strategy, the substance misuse strategy group and the question of homelessness and housing. It is very distressing to hear of young mothers, young couples, single people or whoever, especially if children are involved,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is why NAMA has offered 4,000 units, although only 2,000 have been taken up. Fully 5,000 homes will be added to the social housing stock his year because the Government has a Minister of State with responsibility for housing. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, is working exceptionally hard right across the spectrum in this area. The position is quite distressing although we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Rent allowance is an issue; of course it is. The Deputy had flooding down in his own city in Cork and other places around the country. Emergency responses were had very quickly, but we should not have somebody sleeping in a doorway in this city - 154 of them on any night - in June 2014. I intend to see that this social committee and the agencies for which we are paying €45 million...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for those comments. Deputy Mathews uses his long experience in banking-----