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- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas le clann Alan Ó Murchú, go ndéanfaidh Dia trócaire ar a anam. The Deputy's party has tabled a motion on housing for debate this evening when this matter can be dealt with in greater detail in the response by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. Clearly, one cannot beat this problem until one supplies more houses and...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: That means we must continue the programme of social housing and returning so-called voids to habitable use - of which it is expected there will be 2,500 this year - and that the housing construction sector begins to move. As Deputy McDonald is aware, there are numbers of components to this. There is the social housing element, the renovation of units or apartments that are void at present...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It has already been allocated to local authorities. In fact, the Minister and the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government are meeting with the chief executives of all of the local authorities tomorrow to hear their responses in terms of the targets that have been set, the objectives laid out, the money awarded to them and how they are getting on...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has issued an order in respect of the allocation of social housing to ensure that 50% of all allocations go to homeless people. I also do not hear interviews with anybody who has been awarded a voided apartment or house that has been renovated and made fit for living in again. There will be 765 of those in Dublin by the end of...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: No I do not, actually.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: What I see is, for the first time, a Minister for Health saying we have to have accountability for taxpayers’ money and the services we run, I am not happy with the way things are being run, I need people to step up to the mark and take responsibility, unlike what happened in Deputy Martin’s time-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----when he denied publicly that he had ever been given any responsibility. The Minister is quite entitled to say he is not happy with the situation he finds in some services that we run and he needs people to be able to accept responsibility for the charges they have been given. It has been a trying time. There was a modest increase in the health budget last year despite the fact that...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is the champion of false anger.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: If I recall correctly the Minister for Health back in 2002 was one Deputy Micheál Martin.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: He proclaimed to the nation and internationally that he would end and abolish waiting lists. He had a plan to do it. He still has a plan to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: He comes in here floundering around in desperation. His party, with a few notable exceptions, has not come up with a constructive suggestion in the past four and a half years. He started his period in opposition-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----saying he would work in the interests of the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----but what he has been at here, week after week and month after month-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----is typical of somebody who has no vision of where his party should be or where his country should be.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: What he has given out there in that diatribe does not warrant a response.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Requests (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: 225 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have been received in my Department so far this year. This is an increase of 30% over the total number of requests received in 2014. 51 FOI requests are currently under consideration by my Department. Of these, final replies in 3 cases have been delayed but will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Meetings (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: There were two significant EU meetings on the migration/refugee crisis during the week beginning 21 September. The first, an extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council, on 22 September, agreed a proposal to relocate 120,000 people in need of international protection. This means that 120,000 people seeking asylum will be relocated to other EU Member States from Greece, Italy and any...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: No bonus remuneration has been paid to staff in my Department or any agencies under the aegis of my Department to date in 2015.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 154 and 155 together. The following table details the cost to my Department of fees paid to private for-profit companies who provide services specified by the Deputy from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015. Service Provided Cost Department - Consultancy €23,948.10 Cleaning €19,018.16 Catering €67,069.56 Waste Collection...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice raises a number of issues. He will be aware of the constraints placed on the Government in recent years in respect of the availability of money and the capacity to spend. That is the reason the public private partnership concept was brought into being and is, for example, delivering the extension of the motorway from Gort to Tuam at a cost of nearly €600 million....