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- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The people to whom they will be allocated should only be in them for the shortest possible time - 12 to 15 months - until their social houses are built and allocated to them on a permanent basis.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will come back to Deputy Troy in respect of his third question. As regards the tenant purchase scheme, obviously the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government reviews this on a regular basis. It is an important point because once a person is allocated a local authority house and starts to pay rent, a proportion of that money is used as an opportunity to buy out the...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is different if a person is allocated a house that was built by a housing organisation, which they cannot buy out. It causes a difficulty for people themselves. I will advise the Deputy on that. Discussions in respect of wind energy guidelines are ongoing and until they reach a conclusion, the 2006 guidelines apply to wind energy situations.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm to Deputy Martin that there is a great deal of information shared among the authorities in the Republic and Northern Ireland in regard to criminal activities, money trails and so on. I do not know all the details, obviously, because it is a very specialised business dealing with fuel laundering and other criminal activities. There have been quite a number of seizures of...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to the Committee of Public Accounts here. I mentioned to Deputy Wallace yesterday that he will have an opportunity tomorrow to have the information given to him and evidence to back it up, if necessary. This can be raised at the committee that is accountable to the House in respect of NAMA. With regard to the women's refuge in Tallaght that the Deputy mentioned, I do not have the...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy know the figure?
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I misunderstood the Deputy. I believed he said the organisation had a grant of €350,000. He says it raised the money itself. I will have the details of this figured out-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will have the matter followed through to determine the position. Obviously, there is-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I happened to be in the UN buildings on Thursday and Friday last week and had the privilege of speaking there. I was aware of the Palestinian flag flying, reflecting Palestine's observer status, outside the UN buildings for the first time. I will consider the point the Deputy mentioned. The Minister for Finance has been before the House and has answered questions on numerous occasions...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have made the point that NAMA itself has been before the Committee of Public Accounts discussing these matters in some considerable detail. Its representatives will be appearing again tomorrow. With regard to Longboat Quay, the Minister has moved to address this. Clearly, it is a matter for the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, the receiver to the developer, the residents...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I pointed out to the Deputy earlier that the law applies in terms of the planning permission issued-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Is that not the very reason, given the mess that was left in the property, building and construction sector-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I know the Deputy is not interested in him. I am only telling her that is why the housing regulations were changed. That is why the delays have occurred and why costs have increased. We do not want the circumstances that applied before to continue.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The planning permission is issued in certain conditions.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The situation was that there may be others in the system, and the Minister has already set up a structure to deal with where this may apply in other Longboat Quay situations, such as Priory Hall and other developments around the country.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Bannon that both those Bills are due for publication in this session.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is currently engaged with each Minister and Minister of State and their Departments in respect of provisions for 2016. When those discussions have been completed, obviously the extent of any Supplementary Estimate will become known and the Minister will deal with that in the run-up to the budget.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is a case of being able to move to a point where the social housing targets set by the Government for each local authority are implemented and that the relevant houses are built.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Second, in respect of rent supplement, as I said yesterday, people, and families in particular - I sympathise and empathise with the Deputy in this regard - are entitled to support today, this evening and tomorrow from the Department of Social Protection in respect of an increase in rent supplement to give them some certainty regarding their continued tenancy of the houses in which they live...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: These are important elements that are not isolated. They have all got to work together and we cannot deal with it until more houses are provided.