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- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It included a figure of €3 billion to be paid to Anglo Irish Bank from the taxpayer. It included a figure of an extra €638 million in income tax increases on the taxpayer.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It included a figure of €400 million for water charges without providing any relief for anybody. As the great equaliser, it proposed a cut in the minimum wage.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is the Deputy's credibility on the economy. We have had to rebuild all of the structure. The Deputy has no credibility - zero, zilch, nothing.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: We now have €3 billion of taxpayers' money on the table to build social housing. Deputy Micheál Martin did not answer when I said to him-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----that if he wanted to have NAMA build 10,000 units of social housing, he needed to produce €2 billion and tell me the facilities from which he would take it.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Every local authority in the country has its target and objectives and money and has been given the go-ahead to build social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: There were 2,000 units taken from voids to take people off housing lists last year; 6,000 were helped through the housing assistance programme, while 5,800 were helped through increased rent supplement. I do not accept anything the Deputy says about rebuilding the economy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I take Deputy Gerry Adams's comments about cynicism and conviction at the distance warranted. The Government wants to ensure the recovery under way will continue and be spread throughout the country. To do this its priority is to continue to create more and better jobs such that work will clearly be seen to pay. To create more jobs one will have to strengthen the economy to invest in...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Ministers do not even know the names of the individuals who actually apply. In the case of chairpersons to be appointed, they all have to appear before the relevant Oireachtas committee to make their case.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That represents a major change from what applied previously. Every Minister is entitled under law to determine if a person with suitable qualifications might be available and accept the appointment of a chairperson of a particular board. That applies under the Act. All chairpersons are required to go before the relevant Oireachtas committee to make their case.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy raised this question yesterday in respect of the television programme. I pointed out to him that the disastrous state he left the country in meant that the entire construction sector and the building business has collapsed.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I pointed out to Deputy Martin that the Government set about dealing with the scale of that problem by dealing with voided units, reconstruction of places that were not habitable-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and a variety of schemes to prevent people from becoming homeless and being put on the housing list. These include the housing assistance programme and the tenancy agreement for increased rent supplement, which have helped thousands of people. Given that the economy is recovering, and it is important that we keep the recovery going, the Government has put €3 billion on the table...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I note this morning that not only are there objections to the modular housing that Deputy Martin is proposing but that other such schemes have also been objected to. There is a legal process to be gone through here. Deputy Martin wants instant houses. The Government has put public money on the table for every local authority. It has given them their objectives and targets and has told...
- Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to express my full confidence in Deputy Joan Burton as Tánaiste in the Fine Gael-Labour Party partnership Government and indeed in her nominee to the position of chair of the Pensions Authority. I also express confidence in the plan we have implemented to bring the country back from the brink of economic catastrophe. Fine Gael and Labour put these plans...
- Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: No.
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the outcome of the European Council which took place on 17 and 18 December. The context for the meeting was no easier than it is today, with the ongoing migration and refugee crisis continuing to pose the most serious of challenges for the European Union. This crisis was the first item on the Council agenda. Heads of State and Government...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is where this needs to be dealt with in the first instance. We cannot have a situation where a fire officer says this is a fire hazard and it continues to be occupied.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Report Stage of this Bill will be taken here next Wednesday. Hopefully, we might be able to conclude it in the Dáil.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is Report Stage. If it concludes here on Fifth Stage, it goes to the Uachtarán for signature. If everybody gets together, it will happen. Otherwise, we will have to do it in the weeks ahead.