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- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is currently engaged with each Minister and Minister of State and their Departments in respect of provisions for 2016. When those discussions have been completed, obviously the extent of any Supplementary Estimate will become known and the Minister will deal with that in the run-up to the budget.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: That will not be published until early next year.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is another example of the scale of the catastrophe that the Deputy's crowd left behind them.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It might wash, actually.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Let us bring it on, yes.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Those opposite were building 100,000 houses.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: There is no point.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: If I am allowed to respond.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The previous Government was building 100,000 houses a year and that collapsed to fewer than 8,000. That is the mess it left behind. Now those in Fianna Fáil want to complicate the matter further. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has already made it clear that the modular units that are on display for anybody to see.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: He wants 150 of those provided immediately and a total of 500 will eventually be provided as a temporary measure. When the social houses are completed and built properly, they will be allocated to people on a permanent basis. The Minister is dealing with the issues he needs to deal with in terms of procurement or whether-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----permission is required on council ground or whatever. The locations have not been finalised.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants everything done instantly and the answers yesterday.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is part of a response to deal with the situation that exists. A Deputy over here was seeking €4 billion now, today. He wants answers yesterday.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Those opposite created a mess that we have to clean up and will continue to clean up for a long time to come.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of that Bill have been approved for some time. I can inform Deputy Durkan that it is expected to be published early in the new year.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have any difficulty asking the Whip to arrange an appropriate time for a discussion on what the Deputy said. The criminal justice (corruption) Bill is due for publication this session, as is the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. The modular housing units are not meant to be a solution. There is a particularly urgent situation here that needs to be addressed. The modular...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The people to whom they will be allocated should only be in them for the shortest possible time - 12 to 15 months - until their social houses are built and allocated to them on a permanent basis.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will come back to Deputy Troy in respect of his third question. As regards the tenant purchase scheme, obviously the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government reviews this on a regular basis. It is an important point because once a person is allocated a local authority house and starts to pay rent, a proportion of that money is used as an opportunity to buy out the...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is different if a person is allocated a house that was built by a housing organisation, which they cannot buy out. It causes a difficulty for people themselves. I will advise the Deputy on that. Discussions in respect of wind energy guidelines are ongoing and until they reach a conclusion, the 2006 guidelines apply to wind energy situations.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The gambling control Bill is due for publication in spring 2016. As the Deputy knows, NAMA is appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts tomorrow.