Results 30,541-30,560 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have not spoken to Mr. McNamara for a number of years.I do not know whether in raising this issue here the Deputy has attempted to speak to him herself.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I need to know more about whether there was a HomeBond insurance scheme in place for any of these houses or whether there was any other insurance scheme. We had evidence the other day of houses that were bulldozed and rebuilt. We are aware that HomeBond was able to deal with a number of houses involving pyrite before that fund ran out. We had all of the complications between the city,...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: That took some shifting.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure whether Deputy McDonald has spoken to Mr. McNamara or whether she has made any attempt to locate him.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is not.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I need to find out the details of this before I contact anybody. If I did contact him, he would have a different story to tell.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised a number of issues. The remit of NAMA is to make and return a profit to the Irish taxpayer. While NAMA was expected to end its responsibilities by 2020, it may have finished its remit some time before that. As I said, that remit is to return a profit, where possible, for the Irish taxpayer. The Deputy said €4 billion is required now. As we meet here, the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We cannot deal with homelessness in this form or any other form until we provide more houses on the ground, block, concrete or modular homes.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has already given an instruction that in regard to social housing, 50% of the allocation should go to homeless people. This year in Dublin, 765 units or apartments that have been neglected or closed up are being renovated and made fit for families and individuals. Dublin was given €37 million last year to deal with homelessness. By August of this year, €33...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We need more buildings on the ground. In the private housing sector, we have a situation where good contractors who want to start building are being charged a €60,000 or €70,000 development levy per site. They will not start those houses because of the restraints on loans and mortgages by the Central Bank.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We cannot expect taxpayers to make up the difference between what some contractors paid for land at extraordinary prices and what it is now worth. We cannot expect the taxpayer make good on that. This is not a question of availability of money now.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is a case of being able to move to a point where the social housing targets set by the Government for each local authority are implemented and that the relevant houses are built.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Second, in respect of rent supplement, as I said yesterday, people, and families in particular - I sympathise and empathise with the Deputy in this regard - are entitled to support today, this evening and tomorrow from the Department of Social Protection in respect of an increase in rent supplement to give them some certainty regarding their continued tenancy of the houses in which they live...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: These are important elements that are not isolated. They have all got to work together and we cannot deal with it until more houses are provided.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: This year, those targets are set and the Minister is meeting with them this morning to see that they live up to their responsibilities and get on with the job.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: They received taxpayers' money to do this and the should be following through on it now.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Coppinger's comments at all. The situation is that the Government responded last autumn and winter to a serious situation in this city in respect of homeless people, particularly those who were sleeping rough.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I pointed out yesterday the action that was taken by the Government.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The money that was put up and the consequence thereof - night cafes, extra beds, money to different agencies and all the rest of it-----