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Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----the two of them are one of a kind on lots of things.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The two of them are one of a kind. Deputy Martin's position is that if we increase the rent subsidy, everything will be fine but----

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----that will not deal with the question of supply. To reflect the fact that one in five people in Ireland rent their homes the Government took the opportunity to update the regulations governing this area.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: There is a time limited measure to change the provisions on rent reviews so that instead of taking place every 12 months, they will occur every 24 months-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----until the fourth anniversary of its introduction.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: That gives a degree of stability to the rent sector. Second, even where a landlord has not increased the rent in the last 12 months, the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill currently going through the Oireachtas precludes landlords from increasing the rent beyond the market rate. Third, landlords cannot seek to set aside these measures by pricing in a rent increase to a level...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is a commercial fund which requires a rate of return and to attempt to do something like that for social housing would be very risky indeed.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has another view as to how we can sort out these things. If one does not build houses, either social or private, then one does not deal with the supply of houses. If one cannot deal with that then the pressures on the existing housing stock will increase and raising the rent subsidy is not the answer. I repeat again that there is a difference in the categorisation or...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Adams's assertion that the Government has failed.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I accept that the Government has faced this challenge, which is unprecedented in terms of the scale of the collapse of the construction sector. We had no resources to deal with the many challenges that presented themselves.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: We are now in a much better position. I have just read out for Deputy Martin some of the things that have happened in the recent initiatives taken by the Government. I again remind Deputy Adams that the Government has already put €2.2 billion on the table for social housing.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Instructions and directions have been given to local authorities. All the chief executives have been called together by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Minister of State. They have given instructions to get on with building the social housing for which they have been given money.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: In addition, NAMA has been in consultation with the Minister for Finance. It expects to build 20,000 houses on its sites, with its contractors, for the private housing sector, which will improve the private housing stock, which is very much behind what is required, particularly in the larger cities. I do not accept the assertion made by Deputy Adams.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have set in place a range of initiatives, both at local authority level and through legislation, in dealing with the homeless and those who are becoming homeless, in terms of housing, voided units, modular units, social housing and private housing. It is now a matter for the sector to measure up and supply those. The resources and the facilities are in place.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The situation that applied in Paris at the climate change meeting yesterday was unprecedented in its seriousness. It was very different to what happened in Copenhagen, which had not been as well planned or thought-out in terms of what is to happen. What was involved yesterday was the setting out of a road map for the future, led by the great powers of the world and the leaders of the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is an important point and the Deputy has made a valid contribution. The situation is that our profile in terms of what we produce and can produce from the agri-sector is disproportionate to other countries. No other country, with the exceptions of New Zealand, Uruguay and, to an extent, Denmark, match Ireland's profile in this regard. The point is that the targets set for Ireland of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Deputies may recall that I met the leaders of the different parties and groupings in the Dáil and the Seanad in December 2013 to discuss how best to proceed with reform of the Seanad. Following this, in February 2014 the Government presented a package of proposals on Seanad reform to the Leader of the Seanad for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure that rambling contribution deserves any kind of response. Are we to have a sudden revelation here in the Oireachtas that the greatest debater of all time has arrived?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy refused to accept any responsibility for the ministries he held. Now suddenly everybody should be cowering away under the benches because they are going to be devoured by this wonderful new political scientist who knows all the answers to all the questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy may continue with his arrogance if he wishes. I saw his picture in the local papers in Castlebar in the Sacred Heart home, the new expansion of which his representatives there say will never go ahead. The Deputy was standing there with his people. He is welcome any time.