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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do accept it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: They made the point that the time to implement the report would be after the next Seanad general election. Perhaps the Deputy did not read the report. He clearly has a very different viewpoint, as does Deputy Gerry Adams. There is no point in getting into a long, contentious argument, which is what all the other reports about Seanad Éireann have led to over 40 years, about what to do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that we agree the Seanad needs reform in the way it does its business. A number of issues were mentioned in that report by people who have long experience and which are very much worth noting. They did say we should implement it after the next Seanad general election. I am not going to be as presumptuous as the Deputy. His party, from what I can gather from his spokespeople,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That assumes the Deputy intends to lead his party to an overall majority in the election in the spring. Good luck to him. As far as I am concerned, I do not want to be in any way presumptuous but if it happens that the Government I have the honour of leading is returned by the people, which is a matter for them, this is a report which I look forward to implementing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is welcome any time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Deputies may recall that I met the leaders of the different parties and groupings in the Dáil and the Seanad in December 2013 to discuss how best to proceed with reform of the Seanad. Following this, in February 2014 the Government presented a package of proposals on Seanad reform to the Leader of the Seanad for...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: We are now in a much better position. I have just read out for Deputy Martin some of the things that have happened in the recent initiatives taken by the Government. I again remind Deputy Adams that the Government has already put €2.2 billion on the table for social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Instructions and directions have been given to local authorities. All the chief executives have been called together by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Minister of State. They have given instructions to get on with building the social housing for which they have been given money.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: In addition, NAMA has been in consultation with the Minister for Finance. It expects to build 20,000 houses on its sites, with its contractors, for the private housing sector, which will improve the private housing stock, which is very much behind what is required, particularly in the larger cities. I do not accept the assertion made by Deputy Adams.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have set in place a range of initiatives, both at local authority level and through legislation, in dealing with the homeless and those who are becoming homeless, in terms of housing, voided units, modular units, social housing and private housing. It is now a matter for the sector to measure up and supply those. The resources and the facilities are in place.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The situation that applied in Paris at the climate change meeting yesterday was unprecedented in its seriousness. It was very different to what happened in Copenhagen, which had not been as well planned or thought-out in terms of what is to happen. What was involved yesterday was the setting out of a road map for the future, led by the great powers of the world and the leaders of the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is an important point and the Deputy has made a valid contribution. The situation is that our profile in terms of what we produce and can produce from the agri-sector is disproportionate to other countries. No other country, with the exceptions of New Zealand, Uruguay and, to an extent, Denmark, match Ireland's profile in this regard. The point is that the targets set for Ireland of a...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has an allegiance to a particular philosophy that was always the hallmark of his party in government which was, in the main, responsible for what happened in the last number of years. He wants to throw money at every problem. If we were to decide to increase the rent subsidy, that would not improve the supply of housing by one unit. It would merely put more pressure-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: No. It would merely put more pressure on the existing housing stock and make the situation worse.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why, on an individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----basis, thousands of families have been helped, whose individual circumstances meant that their rent subsidy was increased.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's proposition will not supply one extra house for one extra family; not one.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government has put €4 billion on the table for social housing out to 2020.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputies Kelly and Coffey, have met with the chief executives of local authorities where social housing is to be built.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The National Asset Management Agency has both contractors and land. There is a need for private housing.