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- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The whole theme of the Deputy today is not about a solution; it is about the lack of further protest available to her, because that is all she wants.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is all Sinn Féin wants. Its entire political system is based on outrage, cynicism and protest. In this case, our country is moving on.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I would like to have water meters in every house so that everybody could judge and make arrangements for the safe use of a precious commodity. Deputy McDonald has a different view. She wants everything for nothing. I am quite prepared to be democratic and allow the Oireachtas to deal with the legislation that the Minister will bring forward. If Deputy McDonald's attempt is at outrage...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked a very important question there. I thought she knew the answer but I am going to give it to her anyway. She asked who prevails in a democratic society. The answer is the majority. That is what democracy is about.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The issues are talked out and a decision is made. A decision was made by an Oireachtas committee set up for the purpose of examining the expert review that had made its recommendations and-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----it has agreed a report. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government now has the responsibility to table legislation to give effect to that report. That is the process that is under way. That is called democracy and that is democracy in action. Despite Deputy McDonald's protests, cynicism, false outrage-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----despite the fact that she wants everything for nothing and wants to pay for nothing-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the question is-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Ferris knows a lot about paying taxes as well. The answer to the question-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The question is: who prevails in a democratic society? The answer is the majority. I am glad that, in respect of this matter, a report has been agreed and that the Oireachtas can now proceed to deal with the legislation to give effect to that, which will provide an opportunity for people who have excessive usage to conserve water. It will also ensure that people will pay a penalty for...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. The very reasons the Deputy outlined for the people who are faced with this situation are the result of an economy that collapsed and a construction sector that vanished. This Government and that which preceded it have set about rectifying matters. We have done a lot of things in terms of having an engine to drive the economy. The people who are going into the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: All the things Deputy Boyd Barrett mentions are available to local authorities now.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: They have been given money to buy houses. They have been provided with money by the taxpayer to build houses. They have been given incentives to get into sites that have been inaccessible for building. They have the opportunity to provide public land that they have in their possession in order that builders may come and build houses for them.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The root cause of the problem is not what Deputy Boyd Barrett says but a lack of supply of houses. I do not know where the Deputy lives but-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----he cannot wave his wand out in Dún Laoghaire and build houses like that. It takes blocks, concrete foundations, planning permission and all the rest of it. That is what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is why the Government put €5.3 billion on the table for the period between now and 2021 to build those houses so that the people with difficulties to whom the Deputy referred and their children can be housed in proper and fit accommodation.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is the kind of accommodation that is now being provided in the areas I have outlined for the Deputy for the very same kind of people who have the very same kinds of problems. We cannot deal with them all right away.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Work on all of these issues, including rent pressure zones and HAP, is in full flow in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and is receiving the attention of the Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Of course.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Pringle has set out the situation in so far as Ulster Bank is concerned. Deputy Pringle has not referred to the very substantial rural development programme that has been published by Government across all Departments which includes a direction for the provision of 135,000 jobs, out of 200,000 to be created over the next number of years in areas outside the greater Dublin region,...