Results 31,921-31,940 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: We now have €3 billion of taxpayers' money on the table to build social housing. Deputy Micheál Martin did not answer when I said to him-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----that if he wanted to have NAMA build 10,000 units of social housing, he needed to produce €2 billion and tell me the facilities from which he would take it.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Every local authority in the country has its target and objectives and money and has been given the go-ahead to build social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: There were 2,000 units taken from voids to take people off housing lists last year; 6,000 were helped through the housing assistance programme, while 5,800 were helped through increased rent supplement. I do not accept anything the Deputy says about rebuilding the economy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I take Deputy Gerry Adams's comments about cynicism and conviction at the distance warranted. The Government wants to ensure the recovery under way will continue and be spread throughout the country. To do this its priority is to continue to create more and better jobs such that work will clearly be seen to pay. To create more jobs one will have to strengthen the economy to invest in...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Ministers do not even know the names of the individuals who actually apply. In the case of chairpersons to be appointed, they all have to appear before the relevant Oireachtas committee to make their case.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That represents a major change from what applied previously. Every Minister is entitled under law to determine if a person with suitable qualifications might be available and accept the appointment of a chairperson of a particular board. That applies under the Act. All chairpersons are required to go before the relevant Oireachtas committee to make their case.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams’s central charge is about failure to deliver. The mandate given to this Fine Gael-Labour Party Government was to fix our public finances and put our country back to work. Five years ago, we took over these benches by mandate of the electorate. Interest rates were more than 15% and unemployment was 15% too. We had a haemorrhage of emigration, 300,000 jobs lost and a...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has never supported anything that ever came from Europe. He wanted them to go away, get lost and go home. When he speaks about equality, the actions of the Government were not just rhetoric. The first action we took was to reverse the cut in the minimum wage imposed by the previous Fianna Fáil Government.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The second action we took was to reduce VAT from 13.5% to 9% in the hospitality sector, stabilising that industry and creating 35,000 jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Government reduced the levels of universal social charge introduced by Deputy Martin when in government at the lower ends and capped the benefit of universal social charge at €70,000.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am already committed to the abolition of the universal social charge over the next several years as a matter of equality. It ill behoves Deputy Adams to talk about confidence when he stood up in public and said he had wonderful confidence in a person called Slab Murphy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Overcrowding in emergency departments is always a serious issue. Over the past short period, the Government has focused on addressing this issue by making extra capacity and facilities available. It is not just a beds issue.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Some 1,000 beds were taken out of the system. These have to be put back in again. This requires investment in facilities, nurses, doctors and other staff. That means one needs an economy that can actually drive that. An extra €117 million has been put in to this area, along with extra staffing put in place. There is a three-pronged approach to addressing the problem. These...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Extra resources are being pumped into the health system-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and extra staff are being appointed, including 750 extra nurses and 300 consultants. With 1,000 beds having been taken out of the system bed capacity is an issue, which brings me back to the central point that with our economy recovering, we need to be able to keep that in focus in order that investment can take place to provide for these very facilities that people need. I do not...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 6, Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 - Second Stage (Resumed); No. 16, Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015 - motion to instruct the committee; and No. 45, Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standards Orders, that in the event that a division is in progress at the time fixed for...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the issue the Deputy raised concerning the Minister, Deputy White, that is an appointment to the board of the ESB which requires particular expertise. NewERA supports that appointment. The position is that-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----if a replacement is due, one must give notice six months in advance of whether the intention is to make a reappointment for a person with specialist services or not.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is why that matter came before Government yesterday for the reappointment of a person to the board of the ESB with particular expertise and requirements.