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Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: One has to start somewhere.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Even the Fianna Fáil Party that decimated the economy and the construction sector knows that one must get bulldozers in on those sites to ready the earthworks and start building off planning permission where we have expedited this for local authorities.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: There are 490 at pre-tender and 1,493 at stage four, which is the tender report or final turnkey approval. These are really under way now. If Deputy Martin wants the location of each and every site, they are on the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government's website. They are being worked on now.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: They are not answers for those who say they will not get home until 2021. Deputy Cowen should tell me how it could be done differently.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy wants to know about the European Investment Bank-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----we opened an office of the European Investment Bank here and it will provide long-term credit at low interest for projects in this country of major infrastructural output where there will be a stream of income coming through to pay for those loans, such as toll roads, ports or Luas light rail.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Over the next period, let me assure Deputy Martin, the European Investment Bank, in the words of the chief executive himself, wants to lend much more money to this country from what is the European people's bank.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: That was a well-written speech. The carousel is different to the trampoline. The position is that the fundamentals of dealing with the economy and job creation, as well as tackling difficulties and issues as they arise are a fundamental part of Government. I wish to point out to Deputy Adams that since the then Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, launched the first...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Ross, is very true to his office and is supportive of everybody getting together under the experienced aegis of the WRC. It is not like situations in the past when personalities might appear late at night and say they had put in a word and the situation was sorted. This is a difficult dispute and there are some technical issues that are quite complex. However, the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Broughan's question is perfectly valid. It is part of the sacrifices that people have put up with over the last number of years in order to return the economy to a safer place. I agree that this is a budgetary matter and must be reflected on over a number of budgets. Clearly the process by which the budget for 2018 will be constructed is starting now. The Minister for Public...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I understand that Olive from Donaghmede, who speaks for so many others, has a grievance and would like that to be addressed. The Deputy spoke about the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I will certainly have the Chairman of that committee contacted in order to look at it from the committee's point of view and see what recommendations it might make. Obviously, the Deputy will raise the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am not in a position to do that, as the Deputy well knows. I agree with him that transport for rural Ireland should not be left to market forces only and it is not. That is why the Minister, Deputy Ross, has pointed out, as I have on many occasions, that the National Transport Authority, NTA, is quite prepared to take up any slack for public transport connectivity between areas that are...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: For the sake of his constituents, the Deputy will be aware there is a capital review programme about to be carried out on major infrastructure during the course of the year which should be completed by mid-year. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will look carefully at the ongoing public consultation in that regard at the moment. As I said to Deputy Martin, the European...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: It will not happen today but the Deputy has to work on his proposals to advance it piece by piece.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I had a meeting this morning with Commissioner Timmermans about a range of issues that are about to come up and one of those is the investment capacity for countries throughout Europe to invest in major pieces of infrastructure to improve facilities, provide employment and boost output and growth. I wrote to President Juncker because there was a blockage in the system in terms of the way...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned the N24 and the Thurles bypass. They are not alone in their difficulties. A man in Cork said to me at the Brexit meeting last week that he found me guilty of clogging up the roads with people going to work.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I assure Deputy Micheál Martin that no change in the Government is proposed. The Government is a minority partnership Administration made up of the Fine Gael Party, the Independent Alliance and a number of other Independents and supported by our confidence-and-supply agreement with Deputy Micheál Martin's party. The Deputy has made it perfectly clear that he intends to adhere to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I met Aisling and people from Sligo-Leitrim in Sligo recently at a candlelight vigil relating to Orkambi.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputies O'Dea and MacSharry are well aware that the Minister and the Cabinet of the day do not make the clinical decision on any drug. The HSE has re-entered talks with Vertex.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Reports that they were ended are not correct. The fact is that the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE-----