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- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is the ultimate hypocrite. He comes in here week after week with his bleeding heart, talking about links between everyone else and, as he says, a despicable attitude towards ordinary people. Deputy Adams has consistently refused to answer questions about his own goings on or his party's goings on or links with many dubious characters over the years.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Of all people, Deputy Adams should not come in here and accuse the Minister-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has a mandate, but he is not fulfilling it and not telling the truth about a range of issues on his own side. It is a different argument. The Deputy should not come in with his mandate and accuse the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, of deliberately hiding something the public should know.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: This Government got rid of the rotten carcass that was Anglo Irish Bank. That cost the taxpayers of the country €34 billion, and the framework set up in respect of IBRC was set up by the previous Administration. The Deputy asked a number of questions and, in response to Deputy Martin, I said that the Minister met with the chairman and the chief executive-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: He was given clear assurances as Minister for Finance that this matter was properly assessed by the board of IBRC. He changed the framework that applied at the time and appointed a senior civil servant from his Department to make it mandatory that the Department of Finance and the Minister for Finance be informed of decisions made by the board of IBRC in the winding up of the bank.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: In order to clarify it for everyone, the Minister for Finance has no objection, under the responsibility of the totally independent office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, to have this examined in the context of value for money for the taxpayer, which the Minister was given assurances about by the chief executive and the board of IBRC.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: In all his hypocrisy, I assume Deputy Adams accepts the complete independence of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the integrity of the Minister for Finance.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government is acutely aware of the problems Deputy O'Sullivan raises, not just in Dublin but in other locations around the country, particularly the larger towns and cities. That is why the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has set out a whole strategy to deal with social and affordable housing, with a €4 billion programme between now and 2020 to deal...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree completely with the Deputy. It is not justified in any circumstance that people should have to wait that long. I cannot stand over that. The property market in general has not returned to any kind of normality following the total collapse of this system some years ago. In the greater Dublin area, we will have to provide serious numbers of new houses, apartments and accommodation...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The answer is to deal with the accommodation problem, namely, the lack of houses. On the social end of that, the Government has put its money on the table and given instructions to the local authorities while at the other end, the opportunity is there for the private building sector to get down to work. We need to an increase from the 8,000 houses completed last year to 25,000 a year.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 36, Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 35, Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 - Report and Final Stages (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event that a division is in progress at the time fixed for taking Private Members' business, the Dáil shall sit later than 9...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: A great deal of work has been done on the new children's hospital establishment Bill and it is moving ahead very well. I will come back to the Deputy with an approximate date for publication. The Minister will respond to the question on the international evidence review on independent hospital trusts. I will have him give the Deputy the information. Regarding the first issue the Deputy...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government also changed the Freedom of Information Acts so that these questions could be asked and information given.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The chairman and chief executive assured the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, that it represented value for money for the taxpayer. Deputy Martin respects the independence of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the assurance given to the Minister. The Minister has nothing to hide.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, he has a constitutional responsibility to determine and adjudicate on value for money for the taxpayer, and that he will be asked to do.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill is on Report Stage and a number of amendments have been tabled for discussion. Hopefully, it can be concluded reasonably quickly. The public health (alcohol) Bill is at pre-legislative scrutiny stage with the Oireachtas committee, which has already considered some elements of it. It will meet again tomorrow to consider the matter further and it...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I did not see the Deputy's sign in Ballymahon welcoming the €300 million investment there.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government is very much aware of the catastrophic situation-----
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in which the Deputy's party left the country.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is very much aware of the hundreds of thousands of families that were put into negative equity and are in despair and disillusionment because of the mess and incompetence created during its years in government.