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- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: We now have a programme, a strategy and a clear plan to catch up given the neglect and collapse caused by the crowd that were in before. We will do it over the period ahead.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Quite a number of local authorities actually refused houses that were offered to them by NAMA for whatever reasons.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am only making the point. The strategy that is laid out here, with money on the table provided by the Government, is to build 110,000 new social housing units through current and capital funding streams.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The programme contains €3 billion. As Deputy Wallace is well aware, local authorities have been instructed to get on with achieving their targets and objectives in order to meet this demand. In 2015, 13,000 social housing units were provided. That was an 86% increase on the 7,000 built back in 2014.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The target for this year is 17,000. As I told the Deputy, 2,000 were taken off the housing list last year. Some 6,000 were helped through the housing assistance programme and another 5,800 were helped through the increase in rent supplement under the tenancy agreement. Therefore, local authorities, which used to build lots of houses, have been given clear instructions and money to build...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure if Deputy Wallace has ever engaged with people who are looking for social housing but they want it close to where they are now. I did not comment on the suitability or otherwise of the NAMA offerings that were made to local authorities. I know from engagement that when people look for a social house, they want it to be close to where they are now, given their family connections...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: There are 300 sites being built on and 2,000 people were taken off the housing list by being re-accommodated in places that were voided and neglected and not habitable.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin does not want to recognise the fact.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not want to recognise the fact that the construction sector collapsed completely and has had to be rebuilt from the ground up. It is literally taking the longest of all the sectors to recover. Everybody admits that.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Exchequer spend here is up to €70 million, a 56% increase on what it used to be. I have given Deputy Martin the figures.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: He mentioned modular housing. Yes, the Government did commit to building 500 units of modular housing, warm, comfortable and easily built, the first 150 to be delivered here in Dublin but there were objections to the first ones being built. There are a further 350 to come on stream.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: These are areas where the Government has a serious programme and is following it. Yes, it is catch-up but it is catching up.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I do not like to see a situation where people are in those circumstances.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I acknowledge that the Government inherited an unprecedented situation where among other sectors the housing construction sector had collapsed completely. I acknowledge that the Government has put in place a clear plan and strategy and put money on the table to deal with that. I have given Deputy Adams’s colleague in opposition the figures that apply to the last period. In terms...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will send them to him, whether he reads them or not.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: We have also worked with the representative bodies for the approved housing body sector, that is the Irish Council for Social Housing and the National Association of Building Co-Operatives, and both are members of the oversight group. The 18 local authority areas supported 6,000 families in the housing assistance programme, HAP. A site selection process is under way for the first bundle of...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for that. Obviously, given the mess that the Government inherited the question of taxpayers’ money going into banks was of critical importance. Over €30 billion was lost and wasted by the previous Administration. The remaining €30 billion will be recovered by the taxpayer in full over the next period of time. That crowd there did all of that,...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams legitimately asked on many occasions was this Government going to continue to pay €3 billion in interest rates every year for Anglo Irish Bank.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: He asked the question for months. That was not part of the programme this Government implemented because we did a different deal with the European Central Bank. However, we were told only recently that this was a follow on, implementing the previous administration's catastrophic position.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. Obviously, the stories of Emily, Ryan, Preston and Parker are not the kind of stories one wants to see on television or indeed hear about. The reason for the real problem with housing is the total collapse of the construction sector just a few years ago, which was the most severely impacted sector and which is taking the longest to get back on its...