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- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: This has dragged on for many years with so many different variations, given the fact that Dublin City Council, as the planning authority, has responsibility regarding applications that come before it for planning permission both in respect of Moore Street and the lanes of history at the back of O'Connell Street and so on. In respect of the centenary commemorations for 2016, the Government...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has been on before about raising the rent supplement on private accommodation. I have said to him on many occasions that the challenge here is to deal with the supply of houses. There are not enough houses available for the people who need them. To tinker around with the edges of that will not do anything to increase supply for people who badly need those houses.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams knows that. The Government has responded in a number of ways as I have pointed out to the Deputy before, including by providing proper accommodation for people in units that were neglected, closed up or uninhabitable, significant numbers of which have been brought back into use and allocated to families. The social housing strategy for 2020 sets out clear and measurable targets...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I reject the Deputy's assertion that calling together the major insurance companies was either posturing or spin.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I have already given the Deputy the figures in respect of the Government's response to put money on the table, to give directions and targets to every local authority and to say "Get on with it". We have already pointed out that more than 2,000-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Maybe they have a different way in Donegal. The position is that 2,000 houses and apartment units that were closed up and uninhabitable have been handed over recently to families and people who are now off the housing list. The housing assistance programme has helped 6,000, and 5,800 have been helped directly to stay in their accommodation by virtue of increasing the rent subsidy for them...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The fact is the Government has set out €3 billion in its programme for social housing directly between here and 2021-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and has expedited the opportunity for local authority projects of fewer than 15 houses with a faster process to get to construction.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is in everybody's interest. As was said before, it is not a situation where one wants to condone children living in hotel accommodation or in bed and breakfasts, but the fact of the matter is that the entire construction sector had collapsed completely and we were dealing with 7,000 units a year for a country that would need 20,000 to 25,000.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I have said on many occasions that the position is not satisfactory in a number of areas, where elderly people are waiting on trolleys for a very long time or where incidents arise in overcrowded hospitals that should not arise. That is all the more reason that the impact of the spend that is in place should be examined and how capacity can be increased in an effective way to deal with the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is well aware of the position from his experience in that Department and having served as a member of a Government. In this case, an extra €800 million was allocated by the Government to the HSE and the Department of Health, and responsibility resides in the Department of Health for that Vote. The HSE, in having more effective management, would be expected to deal with...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I wish to make a final point. It is something I noted and I will put it to the Deputy again. In 2004, in respect of accident and emergency overcrowding, the Deputy said: "I think it's going to need sustained investment on the nursing home side. It also requires the development of home care packages ... because of the funding constraints of the last three years we haven't really been in a...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The year 2004 was a boom time-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----when the Deputy had the same old way - fire money at it and hope it will work.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Giving €800 million without reform is no good. We must have a developing economy and in a planned way deal with the structures of community care and home packages-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is absolutely necessary then to deal effectively with the interests of the patients by employing medical personnel such as nurses, doctors and consultants and have the capacity to deal with that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. He actually makes the case as to why it is critical that we are able to continue to grow the economy to deal with all these issues. A total of €13.6 billion has been allocated for health this year. I have no intention of returning to a situation where endless money was thrown at a health system without reform and effective spend for the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: A decision has not yet been taken as to which Committee will be asked to consider the Report referred to by the Deputy. It would be a matter for the Committee decided on to organise its own workload, though the Deputy will be aware of the last date for dissolution of the current Dáil.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (26 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: There were no proposals put forward by managerial staff in my Department or the National Economic and Social Development Office to alter the roll-out of public services which were delayed, postponed or abandoned as a result of non-co-operation by trade union representatives.