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- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: They seem to think one can deliver these units overnight. There are processes that one must fulfil.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I never hear interviews with anybody who has been allocated a house that was a void and closed up and which has now been returned to proper condition. There were 2,333 units returned to use in 2014 and the most recent projections show that there will be 2,500 by the end of the year. Dublin City Council has reported that 633 vacant units have been returned to use to date, with a projection...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: To date the local authority in Waterford has returned 74 units to use and is projecting a figure of 148 by the end of the year.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: These are places where people will be able to live. It takes a while to repair the destruction caused by the Deputy's party.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has met local authority chief executives-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to discuss their targets, the money they have been given and the objective of getting on with the business to be done. Why is that when the Minister provides money and objectives and tells local authorities to get on with building social housing-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that we are not seeing the results? Is it that some of them do not want to build? They might prefer to have agencies to do it for them. A sum of €37.16 million has been confirmed for the Dublin region which represents more than 70% of that figure. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive has confirmed that its expenditure has been €33.4 million. That is the money being...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Clearly, I admit there is a real challenge, but the challenge is not money.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is the process by which the money can be spent and housing delivered. One will not deal with the issue until more houses are provided, that is, blocks and concrete, to provide houses for people.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The answer is "Yes". I visited the scene of the inferno at Carrickmines. The site, although a temporary site established eight or ten years ago, was very neat and clean. However, the units were located around the perimeter and made from the material that had caught fire, as a result of which ten people had lost their lives. It is an extraordinary tragedy and so sad for everybody involved....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The first point the Deputy makes is important. Clearly, the vast majority of communities in this country are prepared to work with the local authorities and different agencies in their own interests. This is a very sensitive issue in that the funerals involved have not even taken place yet, although, to balance that, there has to be an explanation to any community of what a local authority...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I spoke to Deputy Fitzmaurice about this previously and I spoke to his predecessor in the House, who had agreed a certain line of action and then decided to renege upon that. I cannot comment on any case that is before the courts, as the Deputy is well aware. The law of the land will apply and is determined by members of the Judiciary. As Minister, Deputy Deenihan worked...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Unfortunately, not all of the people involved, for their own very personal and sensitive reasons, wanted to comply with offers put forward.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy says people are willing to co-operate. I take his point about the longer-term involvement of Bord na Móna in terms of peat cutting. The offers were there for alternative bogs to be made available so that people could either cut the turf themselves or have it cut for them. However, because of geography, it was not feasible to do that in many cases as there was not a suitable...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The issue here is that turbary rights are a long-standing right in Irish law. It is not a case of getting people off the bogs, but of them not cutting turf. The objective is to have turf available.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Most houses do not use turf alone for heat and the quality of Bord na Móna products is higher and of a better calorific burning standard than turf cut by conventional means. People retain their ownership and their turbary rights and there is no question of these being interfered with. The issue occurs if they decide to cut turf on an area that has been designated - for some time now -...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I understand that. The issue is that they want to continue to cut turf. However, the boglands in question have been designated in a particular way and that is the law that applies. What the Deputy is saying that it is about their opportunity and right to cut their own turf as distinct from having turf from another location provide heat for homes. However, those who have accepted the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Others have a different point of view. I hope the Deputy's influence in this area will be able to bring about a resolution. I know he has been intensely involved over the past number of years, but I hope the issue can be resolved in everybody's interest.
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 37, Financial Motions by the Minister for Finance - motion 5 resumed. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) the following arrangements shall apply in relation to the resumed debate on No. 37: the speech of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and the leaders of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group, or persons nominated...
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: For 2016, the Department of Health will have funding from the Exchequer of €13.175 billion in current expenditure and €414 million in capital. Further funds come in from contributions from the HSE, from private insurance, car parks and so on. These amount to over €1 billion. This represents an increase of €880 million on the 2015 current expenditure budget set...