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Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I hope the changes with the unitary board of Ervia and Irish Water will bring about a position where the mechanics of explaining their programme can go before the people.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, was in Ringsend today and has evidence of €170 million being saved for the taxpayer, and that can be invested in other schemes-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----where there are inferior facilities.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not agree with the Deputy's claim at all. She seems to think we can continue as we have done for years. I am not prepared to do that and neither is the Government. We must provide our people all over the country - consumers, householders, businesses and everybody else - with a proper infrastructure to supply quality water.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not fair that some towns are pumping raw sewage into lakes and rivers.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not fair that we are pumping wastewater to the sea when we are way beyond our environmental limits. It is not right that people in Deputy Fitzmaurice's constituency are still boiling water ten years later. Four major treatment works will be finished by the middle of next year. I hope people will not have to do that any more.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned a progressive tax system but we have one of the most progressive tax systems in the world in Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy should be clear with the people. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, has written to the finance committee to point out that if it is not done this way-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: If there is not an independent commercial body - owned publicly - that can borrow off the Government balance sheet, there would be expectation of raising €850 million next year and every year, rising to €1.2 billion, to meet the programme for dealing with the problems out there. This is the way to do it. We are not going to increase income tax or cut services further.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy wants to put a tax on jobs and unemployment, she will make it more difficult for people. I do not accept her assertions or claims. Over the weekend we have listened to the voices of people. Some have said they do not want to pay for anything.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Others have clearly stated they are willing to make a contribution for water but the process should be made clear, fair and affordable. They have said they will assist the country as they are as Irish as anybody else. That is what the Government will decide upon, and the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, will make his presentation to the Government and the House, I hope, in approximately two weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. I travelled to Lebanon on 15 June 2014 as Taoiseach and at that time also as Minister for Defence. I was accompanied on the visit by the Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Defence, Deputy Paul Kehoe. The purpose of the trip was to meet Irish troops serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy raised a number of issues of global importance. The entire region of the Middle East, from Afghanistan to the northern Mediterranean countries, is huge and is host to tension, civil wars, slaughter, anxiety and geopolitics. The United States has withdrawn troops from Afghanistan and is considering doing so elsewhere. There are situations of conflict on the Turkish border and in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: These are issues that always require an amount of concentrated negotiation before one can peel away problem after problem, like the layers of a vegetable, and expose the real nub of the matter, which dates back many years. On the second Iraq invasion, I could never understand why Mr. Blix was not given another six months to determine that there were no weapons of mass destruction readily...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams raised a question on Israel being in breach of international law and asked about the upgrading of the Palestinian mission to Ireland arising from the 1961 Vienna convention. In regard to the situation to which Deputy Micheál Martin referred, the Seanad passed a motion calling on the Government to formally recognise the state of Palestine and do everything it could at...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 11, inclusive, together. The Government has implemented a programme of constitutional reform. There have been six referendums held since we took office, namely, on investigative powers for Oireachtas committees; judges' remuneration; the fiscal stability treaty; children; abolition of the Seanad; and the establishment of the Court of Appeal. Of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not proposed to hold a referendum in respect of a right to water being enshrined in the Constitution. We live in a democracy and as far as I understand, no party or individual in the House favours privatisation of our water system. Any party that decides it does favour privatisation can put in its manifesto that it stands for this. The Fine Gael Party does not stand for it; the Labour...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: A total of €2.5 billion was announced in the recent budget for social housing, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, is anxious to get this moving. In fact, we discussed this at a Cabinet sub-committee yesterday. Significant progress has now been made on voids here in Dublin. These are places that are boarded up but are well capable...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: What we did after 20 years of waiting was to address the issue in legislation, as was required and determined by the Supreme Court in its interpretation of the Constitution.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: That meant giving effect to legislation which applied where the life of the mother was threatened, as distinct from the health of the mother.