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- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: No, I cannot give the Deputy that answer, but what I am convinced of is that there are other Longboat Quay situations out there and other Priory Hall situations out there. And all of that has brought absolute wreckage to the careers and the ambitions and the lives of so many people in our country. And it all happened because of a rush to greed, a rush to build indiscriminately without...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Unfortunately, they are not coming to light long until after those who provided them have absconded or are not in the business. The Deputy's deputy leader wanted to make a telephone call to a developer yesterday as if this could sort it all out.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I made the point to Deputy McDonald that the Longboat Quay apartments were a combination of a number of entities, and the Minister, Deputy Kelly, met with personnel about this yesterday. This is an example of the worst kind of situation in our country, where people who went off legitimately and got their money to buy their homes or apartments or houses found afterwards that, for reasons...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: As the late Dr. Paisley used to say, "Don't you put words in my mouth".
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I did not state I was aware of the number of locations around the country where inferior building took place. I said I was convinced there are others out there.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has made available here some information about places he has been informed are of an inferior nature.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will pass them on to the Minister and the authorities to ensure they are investigated and rightly so. I am convinced, Deputy Adams, that in the so-called Celtic tiger years that applied under the party opposite-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, that the position was that many buildings and apartment blocks were built very quickly. God knows how many others are out there that are not up to standard.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Of course, I did see the "Spotlight" programme about buildings in Northern Ireland but the Deputy knows nothing about that either.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: No Deputy Tóibín, that is not my answer.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, the planning and development (No. 2) Bill will deal with elements of the regulatory authority that is to be set up. The Minister, Deputy Kelly, has made some serious changes in the regulations in so far as the building standards are concerned.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy knows as well as I do that while meetings were supposed to be held on site on a regular basis on all of these developments, in many cases they never happened and one was left in a situation of considerable chance as to whether shortcuts were taken. The result is that in the city centre, for the Longboat Quay apartments, there is substandard and inferior quality-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and confusion about all of that. In addition, people had been living in these apartments in cases where they obviously were not safe from the perspective of fire safety certification and all the rest. The Minister has made quite a number of changes to the regulations that apply here and the planning and development (No. 2) Bill, which the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, and the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: However, to be honest with Deputy Adams, I believe it will be necessary to wait for some time until other cases are sold or transferred and inspections are carried out which find they are not what they are supposed to be, are of inferior quality, are substandard and are not that which was planned and for which permission was given. The Minister will move to ensure these kinds of situations...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I already have answered questions on this matter in the House, as has the Minister for Finance. The Deputy is aware two investigations are under way in this regard. He is aware of the interest from the United States. The Deputy has made or has been given information that he has brought to the House and he has gone to the Garda, on which I commend him. However, Deputy Wallace also is aware...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The position is-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I suggest to Deputy Wallace that while we can continue this kind of dialogue here on a weekly basis, he has been given or supplied with information and evidence-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I suggest he take that information himself-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----as a witness before the Committee of Public Accounts-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----where NAMA can reply to the Deputy in the committee.