Results 4,201-4,220 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for his ceisteanna. The Government has 180 days to respond to the finding of the UN Human Rights Committee. This will require some detailed conversations and discussions between the Office of the Attorney General and the Minister for Health. This will take place over the next period. As I said, we have 180 days to respond. The citizens' assembly will be set up within...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I might say something to the Deputy if he will let me finish. This is a 400 page judgment. It is a complicated judgment. It is the first time the High Court has ever determined that a national monument be on private property. It could end up in all kinds of contentious litigation in future. It certainly requires that the Government, in respect of whoever the Minister with responsibility...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and could cost significant amounts of money. Work got under way last November to preserve the building. The Minister and officials studied the judgment very carefully. As I said, it runs to 400 pages. Of course, they have sought advice in respect of its findings. People have very strong views about this. The Minister is anxious to have a consultative forum comprising the people of...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: On the public pay question raised by Deputy Micheál Martin, the Minister is bound to discuss with all of those who signed the Lansdowne Road agreement on public pay the follow through on it. He is actually doing this. Over the next couple of weeks he will make his intentions, and the details of that, known to everybody. In respect of the victims of crime directive, this matter is...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I do not think Deputy Coppinger or anybody else is entitled to judge the electorate that voted for the Constitution or that voted to amend the Constitution. My view is that if we were to decide to have a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment in October, it would not be passed. I will explain why. There needs to be a real discussion here. If we are going to attempt to remove this from...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re sittings and business of the Dáil; No. 12, motion re Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998; No. 13, motion re Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009; No. 16, Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 1, Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad] - Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, (1) that...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: This is another distressing case, one of many that have come to light during the years. I would like the Deputy to understand that I listened to the women involved very carefully in the case of the Magdalen laundries, an issue which had gone on for over 60 years and nobody had done anything about it. I listened to women as part of the LGBT group who expressed the fear, loathing and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: This week will be taken up with Estimates, which will be brought through by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin's successor. Back in April the Government informed the Commission of some adjustments to the Estimates as originally drafted. This is on a 75% to 25% basis. The local authorities will have access to finance borrowing capacity from the Housing Finance...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The work will be able to commence this year. Payment will be drawn down then for 2017. We are in a situation where we have now identified a number of sites, in particular in the greater Dublin area. It is not within the capacity of local authorities to open up these sites to allow for the construction of sizeable numbers of houses. For that reason the Government is keen to step in with a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The drawdown will not be until next year but work will commence this year.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: In fact, the Minister is keen to expedite this process so that work can start as soon as possible.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked why the debate should be adjourned. The reason the Minister requested the Sinn Féin spokesperson to have a debate but not to push it to a vote was to allow the Oireachtas committee, on which the Deputy's party has members-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----to produce its report on Friday. The development of the housing strategy on behalf of the Government will, I hope, be available in draft form by the end of this month. The strategy will take into account a range of propositions from the various Departments I mentioned to deal with the very questions the Deputy raises. These include the supply of housing, including social housing, the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The decision taken this morning was to approve a €200 million local infrastructure development fund. This will require estimated additional amounts of €70 million in 2017, €100 million in 2018 and €30 million in 2019.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is in respect of the €200 million, which will be funded by €150 million from the Exchequer matched by a €50 million local authority contribution. It is Exchequer money and, therefore, on-balance sheet. It is designed because of the obvious difficulty in a number of locations, particularly in the Dublin area, where there is serious potential for building sizeable...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Is that right or is it not right? That is what I am informed. If I am being misinformed here, if somebody has got evidence to that effect, I would certainly like to hear it. The Deputy makes the point that the sale should have been stopped. Where is the evidence that the process that was followed was not open-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----was not above board-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and was not fair?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: In the sale being concluded, the information that I am given, standing here in the position that I hold, is that this was conducted in a proper and open process, and was sold to the highest bidder for what it was worth. If the Deputy has information to the effect that this is not-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----the way it was, I will be happy to hear it, or from anybody else either.