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Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: We had to restructure those banks and recapitalise them. That has happened. They are now back in profitability and they are paying lower interest rates on the money they have to borrow.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The point is that we did not fix those banks for the benefit of the banks but rather for the customers.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, responded to this during Priority Questions this morning. I expect the banks to do better than they have been doing in respect of variable mortgage interest rates.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: I notice the Fianna Fáil Private Members' business last evening called for the Economic Management Council, which Sinn Féin wants to abolish, to produce a White Paper. The Fianna Fáil Members have nothing but a catastrophic tradition in so far as banks are concerned. They need not open their mouths about it any more. As for those in Sinn Féin, who know a lot about banks...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: I put it to Deputy Adams that AIB has reduced variable interest rates. I am unhappy that the level of interest rate reduction is not being passed on to consumers. Let me repeat the point.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: When this Government first came into office, the sector was a complete and unholy mess. It has been restructured and recapitalised. Those banks are now returning to profitability.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: AIB has reduced variable interest rates. The bank has not gone far enough. I want to see the engagement that the Department of Finance has every week with the Central Bank continue. The Government, as I said in the House yesterday, will meet the banks about an agenda of issues, including the bringing forward of a number of other actions in regard to mortgage distress. The priority for...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams seems to be happy with a situation whereby our country, his country and my country, can continue with people having to boil water, with houses connected with lead pipes and where there is inferior quality water coming through.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has said in the House that he is a legislator and he will pay his water charges. It was the same with the person beside him, his deputy leader. The cost is €1.15 per week or €3.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Adams not believe it is fair that we should be able to raise sufficient money to invest in and fix these inferior systems? Perhaps that is how Deputy Adams wants to condemn people to have that inadequate standard for the next 15 years. I do not and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government does not.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is time now to get on with dealing with this. The Government, having listened very carefully to people-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----set a charge of €1.15 per week or €3. The man who stopped me with the two pints in his hand last week-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----shouting about the cost of water that he could not pay-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: What he was holding in his hands would pay for water for him - because I know him - for nearly ten weeks.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is a most distressing condition that people find themselves in. Everybody in the House knows families or people whose loved ones or family members are so afflicted, and I know many myself. We waited ten years for a strategy on dementia to be produced. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, brought that forward after extensive consultation and published it before Christmas,...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: As I said, the Minister of State launched the national dementia strategy in December, after we had waited ten years. I pay tribute to the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland for its contribution and for the part it played in the development of that strategy over a period. There are 50,000 people afflicted by dementia. As I said, a very substantial amount, about €27 million, is being...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 1, motion re proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain acts in the field of police co-operation and judicial co-operation in criminal matters; No.37, Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 38, Sport Ireland Bill 2014 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages;...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill is due this session. On the question of guidance counsellors and the reform of the junior certificate, the Minister for Education and Skills has given her views in respect of the junior certificate. I will raise the question of guidance counsellors with her, but the decision was very clear, namely, to allow them to have greater freedom at...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the mental capacity Bill, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill was published on 17 July 2013 and provides a series of options to support people with impaired capacity to make decisions and to exercise their basic rights in line with the principle of the UN convention. It undertakes a comprehensive reform of existing legislation governing capacity and is awaiting...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: No, the Bill was only published in July 2013. Committee Stage is awaited in the House. Another key task which is under way involves examining how the issue of reasonable accommodation can be achieved in a meaningful way within our constitutional framework, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. The House may be aware that the Supreme Court in an Article 26 referral dating from 1998 found it...