Results 26,721-26,740 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: That funding will restart the local housing authority scheme directly. We put forward €15 million to restore up to 1,800 vacant units, particularly here in Dublin, designed to reduce pressure on the housing lists. There is no reason many of these units have been boarded up for years when they could be turned into comfortable warm homes for people to live in.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The €68 million injection to the local authorities will provide almost 500 homes over the next two years. They have to be built.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Thirty-five million euro was also brought forward this year for people who have a disability-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----people without a home and the elderly. There has been a €30 million investment in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of local authority housing-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and a €10 million investment this year to kick-start the resolution on the remaining unfinished housing development. NAMA and the Government will respond in parallel to the budget to deal with the question of social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The issue raised by the ESRI, which has been raised by many other housing agencies, is very clear. There is a real demand. No matter who is in government, even the Deputy's party, they would have to have contractors and builders provide blocks, foundations and houses. It takes time to build them.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy, with his fantasy economics, cannot put these houses on the ground just like that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: We will deal with it next week and the week after.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: But real, Gerry.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I accept from Deputy Murphy that any charge imposed on people is always difficult to deal with and difficult to accept. That is why, under the structure of Irish Water, the policy directions were given by Government to the regulator and are being implemented by the regulator. Appropriate allowances for the different categories of people that I have outlined on a number of occasions will...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is a massive organisation which has a fundamental and important part to play in the economy for the future. Without mentioning some of the issues the Deputy referred to it is a question of putting in place an entity that can borrow off the Government balance sheet to invest in infrastructure and provide quality water for people and for business and deal with the leaks, the treatment...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is a need for a contribution from people across the country with a view to dealing with this problem which has been neglected for years.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: There are several things the Deputy needs to bear in mind. The water regulator has determined that the average bill will be less than €240 per year, has confirmed that 80% of all bills will be less than €24 per month, given the allowances already laid out, and ordered that there be a reduction in the cost base of Irish Water of €170 million by 2016, that is, a reduction...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The regulator sets the conditions.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: He is determined that the average bill will be less than €240 and that 80% of bills will be less than €24 per month.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 6, Workplace Relations Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed) and No. 2, Protection of Children’s Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Bill 2012 Seanad - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 155, motion re agricultural industry (resumed) to conclude at 9 p.m. tonight, if not previously concluded. Tomorrow’s business...
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his-----
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----response. He asked a load of questions. I answered them in my letter.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy did not mention the section of the letter in which I was happy to report that good progress is being made with many aspects of the reform programme, including the introduction of new governance and management structures in the HSE following the enactment of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I mentioned that chairpersons are in place for six of the hospital groups, with the role being filled on an interim basis in one case. The legislation for the disestablishment of the HSE has passed through the Oireachtas and will take effect from 1 January 2015. The health care pricing office has been established in the HSE. The implementation of the "money follows the patient" approach...