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- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The State does not own the properties right up along Moore Street where the O'Rahilly was shot up as far as the Rotunda. The State now owns the national monument and has responsibility for it. The State wants to do a very sensitive, authentic revising of the quality of the buildings that were there. As Deputy Adams will be aware from recent press comments and from confirmation in those...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes, it is: to deal with the plan that they have presented to them and the planning applications that go in for that, whether those take into account the existing laneways and existing streets or not. That is not a function of the Government. The Government purchased, with public money, the buildings involved. The Government wants, with public money, to do a really important, sensitive...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I think that the Deputy's party, with respect, does not want to associate itself with the national commemorative ceremonies that are going on.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The party seems to want to have its own issues, and that is its own business.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I would say this to Deputy Adams: the State, with public money, has invested in the provision of military archives, has invested in the transformation of the mezzanine in the General Post Office, has invested in the courthouse in Kilmainham, has invested in Richmond Barracks and in the tenement buildings-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and also purchased this national monument. I do not think the-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----authority in Washington bought the entire terrace where President Lincoln was assassinated, but the State has purchased these buildings here and wants to restore them as a national monument, which they now are, in State ownership in a sensitive, authentic restoration. People occupying it are not helping that case and may well be a danger to themselves, given the fragility of some of the...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The issue is whether Deputy Adams agrees that it is the right and proper thing for the State, the national Government of Ireland, to have purchased these dwellings-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and to have transformed them into an authentic restoration of the place as far as which-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----the leaders of the 1916 Rising in the GPO tunnelled and burrowed before Elizabeth Farrell went to deliver the surrender on the footpath opposite the Rotunda. I think it is. It is part of the commemorative centenary celebrations-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----which are sensitive, inclusive and open to everybody. Deputy Adams does not seem to want that. He may have purposes of his own.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The State does not own the other properties-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and the State does not have the authority to say, "These are the buildings and the kinds of developments that we want here".
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is a matter for representatives, including Sinn Féin's own, to participate in that discussion so that this kind of development can take place in the locality of the State monument here at 15, 16 and 17.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am not God and I cannot predict the extent of rainfall. That is one of the reasons we have invested in far more sophisticated long-term weather forecasting.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I point out to Deputy Martin that the scheme in England is only going live now. It took five years to put together and it excludes small businesses and houses built since 2009. Some £40 million was spent on Carlisle but it did not work. The Minister of State at the Department of Finance with responsibility for the Office of Public Works is developing the CFRAM detailed response which...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Army personnel were available and at the end of a telephone, day or night, to man pumps, fill sandbags and assist communities to keep flood waters in abeyance. In the complex area between the Slieve Aughty mountains and Kinvara, where fractured limestone results in underground streams and turloughs which emerge in winter, flexibility must be shown under the Habitats Directive and water...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his questions and I wish him good luck for 2016, outside the electoral contest. The rains in December were the heaviest for 52 years in many places around the country. Cork Airport had 400 mm, more than it ever had. Places in the south east such as Carlow had between 150% and 300% more than average rainfall. This was absolutely devastating for many communities...
- Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Joe Soap and Mary Soap.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his question. The Bill is due to be published next year.