Results 3,981-4,000 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: A total of 80,000 families a year have taken up houses. We have built more houses in the past five years than were built in the previous 30 years.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: Through affordable housing, social housing and the voluntary housing sector, the issues discussed in social partnership have improved the situation.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: I have provided comprehensive figures in this respect.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: Half of Dublin is moving to County Kildare because the houses areââ
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: They are moving into affordable housing.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: The county has extremely good affordable housing.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: There is some extremely good affordable housing in Kildare, which is much cheaper than most places, to that county's credit.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: The Deputies do not want to accept we are building 80,000 houses and that through Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the affordable housing initiative, more than 11,000 sites have been generated.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: They do not want to say this is having a significant impact and they do not want to give credit to the affordable housing initiative, which is very unreasonable. They want to take issue with the ESRI and they do not want to recognise that this year's budget was the most progressive in the history of the State. However, I agree with Deputy Joe Higgins on one point, which is that the high rate...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: On the first issue, in fairness to the social partners, while the national implementation body held numerous meetings during the round, there were not that many breaches. By and large, people stuck to the terms of the agreement and there was good compliance with it. However, my Department is undertaking an examination of the effects of progress on a number of areas, which will be ready...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: On the sale of assets, the Government has a position on this aspect and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions put forward a position paper on the sale of assets which, I have no doubt, will be discussed during the social partnership talks. On atypical workers, I am aware of that initiative. The issue has not yet come up in the talks but it will come up. I am aware of the position for actors,...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: I am not aware of the position regarding the CIE lands at the back of the Great Southern Hotel in Eyre Square. I understand that CIE proposes to develop further the station and its own site. If it is selling it off, I presume it will just sell the parts it does not want, but I am not aware it is selling the land.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: To the best of my knowledge, there is not, but I will ask about the matter. I heard the Chairman of CIE, Mr. John Lynch, say that it wants to extend the station in Galway, which I favour. On social housing, there is a clear line between what is private housing, the affordable housing initiative and social housing. There is no transfer option in this regard. Under the social partnership...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: Social housing is a separate issue. It is a matter for the Minister of State with responsibility for housing, but I am not mixing up the two figures.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: In the 1970s and early 1980s, when we were building far more social housing, hardly any houses were built in the private sector. The equivalent figure was approximately 20,000.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: The key issue for Ireland in regard to the draft services directive is to ensure that we strike the right balance between removing obstacles to the realisation of a single European market in services, which we favour, while upholding the integrity of national traditions in the area of social partnership, industrial relations and dispute resolution practice, not least ensuring that established...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: I correct the Deputy in that the decision was taken by the board of the Great Southern Hotel Group.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: The board reported to the board of the Dublin Airport Authority, which fully supports and endorses the decision. The Deputy is correct that the staff in these hotels are excellent. I hope the interests of staff are protected in the negotiations and the sale. There are top quality staff in these hotels who are forever moving to greater things. The problem in the Deputy's constituency is trying...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: Then I will rephrase it. Many of them move to better paid jobs in hotels in the private sector in other parts of Deputy Moynihan-Cronin's constituency.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Bertie Ahern: That has been happening all the time. The Ceann Comhairle knows that.