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- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: These are places where people will be able to live. It takes a while to repair the destruction caused by the Deputy's party.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has met local authority chief executives-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to discuss their targets, the money they have been given and the objective of getting on with the business to be done. Why is that when the Minister provides money and objectives and tells local authorities to get on with building social housing-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that we are not seeing the results? Is it that some of them do not want to build? They might prefer to have agencies to do it for them. A sum of €37.16 million has been confirmed for the Dublin region which represents more than 70% of that figure. The Dublin Region Homeless Executive has confirmed that its expenditure has been €33.4 million. That is the money being...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Clearly, I admit there is a real challenge, but the challenge is not money.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is the process by which the money can be spent and housing delivered. One will not deal with the issue until more houses are provided, that is, blocks and concrete, to provide houses for people.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The answer is "Yes". I visited the scene of the inferno at Carrickmines. The site, although a temporary site established eight or ten years ago, was very neat and clean. However, the units were located around the perimeter and made from the material that had caught fire, as a result of which ten people had lost their lives. It is an extraordinary tragedy and so sad for everybody involved....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is not acceptable that families and children, in particular, have to stay in bed and breakfast accommodation and hotel rooms.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: In many cases, they are quite a distance from Dublin, in particular, and the families have to travel to schools and so on, which is not acceptable. It is not true to say that there was nothing in yesterday's budget for housing. The Minister for Finance signalled that NAMA will provide 20,000 houses between now and 2020. We will open 100 sites across the country in 2016 and will deliver at...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The problem is the planning regulations and the planning permission process.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Until we deal with the question of the provision of extra houses, in reality we cannot deal with this problem.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is not true to say that the rent supplement has not been increased. The Department of Social Protection has dealt with thousands of cases over the past period where, in individual circumstances-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the rent supplement can be increased, thereby giving certainty to both the tenant and the landlord.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is clear that interference in the market, to its detriment, is not something we should do.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: While people are calling for what they call "clarity" on rent certainty, if we interfere in the wrong way, we will make matters worse.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: As was pointed out by the Minister for Finance, we had three reports in the 1980s by Mr. Peter Bacon which were supposed to sort out all of this but things actually got worse. The Government will not interfere-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in a way that will make things worse. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, is working very hard on this issue and we hope we will be able to bring in a number of measures that will improve the position.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Believe me, I am frustrated about the fact that this is not moving in the way that one would want. We have PPPs, private builders, NAMA, social housing and modular units. Those are five issues. The money is in place and they should be moving.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 72 of the Finance Act 2005 (No. 5 of 2005), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 14 October 2015, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 60 of the Finance Act 2014 (No. 37 of 2014)): "SCHEDULE 2 RATES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX (With effect as on and from 14 October...
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is about the construction of hangars for repair, maintenance, overhaul and dismantling of aircraft. It is therefore about job creation and attracting skilled people to work there. The limit is €5 million per project. A small hangar could cost €1 million, while a double or triple hangar could cost €10 million or more. The €5 million reflects the limit set...