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- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: This year, those targets are set and the Minister is meeting with them this morning to see that they live up to their responsibilities and get on with the job.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: They received taxpayers' money to do this and the should be following through on it now.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Coppinger's comments at all. The situation is that the Government responded last autumn and winter to a serious situation in this city in respect of homeless people, particularly those who were sleeping rough.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I pointed out yesterday the action that was taken by the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The money that was put up and the consequence thereof - night cafes, extra beds, money to different agencies and all the rest of it-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----dealt, by and large, with the vast majority of people sleeping rough who wanted a bed for the night. Speaking to some of them myself, they said they would not go into hostels because they might be attacked, beaten up or whatever. These are not simple cases. The Deputy mentioned families and I empathise completely with her in this regard. Housing men, women and their children, some in...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I ask the Deputy to imagine if a local authority official said to someone, "I am going to provide you with a social house at address X and number Y. The money has been given to the contractors and building is about to start. It will take 18 months to two years to do all of that."
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: "In the meantime, I am prepared to give you one of the proposed 500 modular houses for you and your family, where it is your own space."
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: "They are comfortable, warm, insulated and have a life span of 50 years, and I will give it to you until such time as your social house is built." Would the Deputy not advise a family in those circumstance that, compared to being in a bed and breakfast or hotel room, they would be much better off to have their own space for that period until their social house is built?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: All of these things I have mentioned, modular homes, the social housing targets, the money that is in place, the €37 million given to Dublin City Council - €23 million of which was spent up to August - to deal with these very issues-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----thee Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Minister of State are very conscious of them. As I said, there was a meeting this morning with the chief executives of all the local authorities to see that they are following through on meeting the targets that were set down.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 46, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed); No. 6, Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 7, Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event a division is in...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned the legislation that applies in the case of items purchased in a shop, which can be returned if faulty. Where a person decides to apply for planning permission to build a house or building and does not build it in accordance with the planning permission, the authority concerned is entitled to bring the builder to court to enforce compliance with the regulations. The...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have not spoken to Mr. McNamara for a number of years.I do not know whether in raising this issue here the Deputy has attempted to speak to him herself.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I need to know more about whether there was a HomeBond insurance scheme in place for any of these houses or whether there was any other insurance scheme. We had evidence the other day of houses that were bulldozed and rebuilt. We are aware that HomeBond was able to deal with a number of houses involving pyrite before that fund ran out. We had all of the complications between the city,...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: That took some shifting.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure whether Deputy McDonald has spoken to Mr. McNamara or whether she has made any attempt to locate him.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is not.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I need to find out the details of this before I contact anybody. If I did contact him, he would have a different story to tell.