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Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It would be far better to provide homes for these people.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Joe Higgins knows — there is no point in repeating it — that Ireland has one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: On affordable housing, we are investing substantial resources in significant numbers of houses. It is envisaged that more than 15,000 units will be delivered under various affordable housing schemes this year, next year and into 2008. I gave the details of the Part V programme and the other programmes last week. The total provision of social and affordable housing was €2 billion last year....

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As Deputy Joe Higgins pointed out, we spend €400 million on rent supplements each year. That money goes to private landlords. The point made by the Minister, Deputy Brennan, is that it would be far better to spend a substantial part of that money on housing, in addition to the €2 billion we are spending on social housing, rather than giving it to landlords and others involved in this business.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The State is spending this money.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: This is a very progressive way of bringing about social change——

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Bertie Ahern: ——rather than handing out hundreds of millions of euro, year in, year out.

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Bertie Ahern: In a five-year period——

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——we would hand out €2 billion to landlords.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: You should listen, Joe.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: What we want to do is to use that money.

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Bertie Ahern: Deputy Joe Higgins always gets upset when the Government tries to solve some of the problems he raises.

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Bertie Ahern: He never wants to solve the problems.

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Bertie Ahern: He comes from the category——

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Bertie Ahern: His business is in keeping the poor poor. That gives him a reason to go on.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Deputy has no good policies. He is just a negative politician.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: He never wants to see people getting out of anything. He follows the worst of 1930s socialism.

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yesterday's annual report to which Deputy Kenny refers sets out the statistics confirming the provisional headline crime figures which the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform released in January. It shows an increase in headline crime of 2.7% last year compared with 2004. The statistics also include non-headline crime — for the first time in the annual report — which increased...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——there has been a substantial increase in the detection of crime in this area. That is to be welcomed by all of us who wish to see an end to the carnage on the roads, whether caused by drink driving offences, insurance offences or vehicles having difficulties. Detection in all these categories has substantially increased. The figures differ very little. The Department of Justice,...

Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It stated it would continue to keep taxes down, build up infrastructure——