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Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised a number of issues. The remit of NAMA is to make and return a profit to the Irish taxpayer. While NAMA was expected to end its responsibilities by 2020, it may have finished its remit some time before that. As I said, that remit is to return a profit, where possible, for the Irish taxpayer. The Deputy said €4 billion is required now. As we meet here, the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We cannot deal with homelessness in this form or any other form until we provide more houses on the ground, block, concrete or modular homes.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has already given an instruction that in regard to social housing, 50% of the allocation should go to homeless people. This year in Dublin, 765 units or apartments that have been neglected or closed up are being renovated and made fit for families and individuals. Dublin was given €37 million last year to deal with homelessness. By August of this year, €33...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We need more buildings on the ground. In the private housing sector, we have a situation where good contractors who want to start building are being charged a €60,000 or €70,000 development levy per site. They will not start those houses because of the restraints on loans and mortgages by the Central Bank.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We cannot expect taxpayers to make up the difference between what some contractors paid for land at extraordinary prices and what it is now worth. We cannot expect the taxpayer make good on that. This is not a question of availability of money now.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I notice Deputy Martin is becoming more and more personalised in his politics. It is an indication that he wants to talk about anything but the forward momentum of the economy and the way it can impact upon what we are talking about here.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy said we are standing as helpless commentators. I reject that.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: What we have done is to change the law, to which we are all subject, so that consecutive sentencing can and will apply for burglaries. We have reopened Templemore Garda training college, which Fianna Fáil closed, with 500 men and women going through there, being attested and accredited and giving service to the country.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have allocated €29 million to replace the clapped-out vehicles, which were left as a legacy of what Fianna Fáil did when it was in government, with new cars and vehicles for gardaí.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Because of the incidence of specialised burglary gangs leaving from particular parts of the country, we have given almost €1 million for specialised vehicles to deal with high-speed chases.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is a fact, and Deputy Martin can make a comment about it if he wants, that some of these gangs do use night-vision goggles and drive at excessive speeds throughout the country.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: In addition, Deputy Martin asked what else we can do. Some 61,000 hours of Garda time are now available for community business.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin made the point, and I agree with him, that Garda presence matters. Gardaí are far more visible when in the community than sitting in a 100 year old Garda station for two hours, waiting to sign unemployment or dole forms. The communications that Fianna Fáil left behind them were a Stone Age facility but that is all being replaced.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Communication, information, contact and community - these are the activities we need to have.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have read the account of what has happened here-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have read this account. Obviously, Deputy McDonald has spoken to someone who actually lives there. This is not the first time this has happened. We recall Priory Hall and the firetraps that were discovered there, and the difficulties that went on for quite some time, including court cases, before that matter was eventually sorted out.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: We recall the late Deputy Shane McEntee dealing with pyrite in houses that were built and then became unsuitable for those who paid big money for them. Now, we have a situation like this. As Deputy McDonald is well aware, under the legislation, planning permission is issued on certain conditions. Unfortunately, because of the over-enthusiasm that was being followed with regard to the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Given the rush to cut corners and the rush to make money, people now find, years afterwards, having paid very good money and having mortgaged themselves for that, the house they live in is a firetrap. This is grossly unacceptable and is not an easy situation to sort out. I would like to find out more about this, in discussion with the city council and the Minister for the Environment,...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Martin that these burglaries and attacks on ordinary people are deplorable, and I condemn them without reservation. I am glad that many of those involved, although not all of them to date, will be brought before the courts under the law. It is most unfortunate that a death occurred among the cases the Deputy mentioned. We live in a very different type of society. I...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes, both Bills are due this session.