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- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Meters also provide an opportunity to determine where leaks are.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The more leaks that are fixed, the less treated water goes to waste.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: That, in turn, will lead to a reduction in the cost to be met by the public when that water is being provided in the first place. Obviously, a comprehensive metering programme will have a much more effective and efficient infrastructure to deliver high-quality water to businesses and consumers all over the country.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Kelly, is aware of the issue the Deputy has raised. He has undertaken to examine the funding of community organisations and entities like those mentioned by the Deputy. It is often necessary to draw funding from various State agencies for these kinds of communities or organisations. As the Deputy knows, a Private Members' motion on the question of social inclusion has...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan that the participation in third level institutions from areas of deprivation or areas that are certainly socially challenged has been very low. We have tried to encourage third level institutions to make a particular effort so that young people would have the opportunity to go to third level, though the difficulties that they have encountered have been...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I actually spoke to the Lord Mayor myself recently about some matters relating to this. No more than the Deputy's good self, he is well acquainted with the difficulties in a number of communities here in Dublin in particular. Obviously, island communities have had a particular priority over the years. There is a €2.2 billion fund for rural development between 2014 and 2020 that...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Halligan has raised with Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan the question of the child care centre in Waterford. For instance, non-commercial or community-run centres, obviously, were derated recently by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to lessen the charge there.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is actually more important that the Minister look at what the overall result might be here. I cannot speak for his diary, but I know that he is aware of this and has already undertaken to look at it.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps if Deputy Halligan wants to give me the details of the centre in Waterford, which I am not acquainted with,-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----I would be happy to have a response provided for the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I would be happy-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I would be happy to have a response provided for Deputy Halligan and Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, if they wish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 21, inclusive, together. These questions relate to the Cabinet committee dealing with climate change and my attendance at the climate change summit hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York in September. I have been asked about meetings of the Cabinet committee dealing with climate change. The most recent meeting took place on 11...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Higgins for his comments and broad analysis of the challenges we face. At European level, Ireland obviously participates in the general consensus that one must take political action in this regard to meet the targets that have been set out. However, the Government also is conscious that Ireland has arrived at a position in which its agrisector is highly energy and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The point is that there is a difference between targets and principle. One could set targets that might not be completely realistic for the period from now until 2050 and probably find oneself in the courts most of the time over not being able to achieve them. One must have the discussions and negotiate to determine what realistic targets could be achieved, accepting that we have to and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy did speak of targets; the principle is accepted. The reduction target that was set for 2020, -20%, was the highest of all the targets for all the countries in Europe. That is a fact. This was compounded by the fact that we were still expected to meet the target although we went over the cliffs economically.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We have to be realistic about what we can achieve. I do not want to take any credit - I never have and never will - but must say that the European Council actually agreed with Ireland's position in that it has a very different profile from any other country in the European Union. The only country with a similar profile is New Zealand, because of its agricultural sector. This is why the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The difference is realism. As I already pointed out to Deputy Martin, this country was given the highest target to achieve of minus 20% carbon emissions. It was utterly unrealistic. Any Minister for the marine who has gone out to Brussels in the past 15 years has always been able to argue his case cogently for quotas in respect of fish or whatever,-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----including in the Ceann Comhairle's years when he did exceptionally well, but it was based on accurate scientific evidence. What happened here, in setting out the targets for Ireland for 2020, was based on an amalgam of different pieces of information. It set us a target that was utterly unachievable. One could ask whether we were to proceed on the basis that we accepted the target for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams.