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- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, is more than capable of running his Department and dealing with the matters for which he has responsibility. The Minister informed us about the negotiations on IBRC in so far as the promissory notes were concerned. Deputy Adams stood up in this House, week after week and month after month, to ask the Government whether we were going to borrow €3 billion...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the date but he kept us updated on IBRC because the promissory note issue continued for quite some time, as Deputy Adams is aware.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked why we did not establish a commission of investigation. The interest of the Government here is for the taxpayer and that the facts in respect of the Siteserv sale should be made available as quickly as possible. The Deputy knows well enough that if a commission of investigation is set up to look at an issue like this there is a lead-in of a number of months and it can be a...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Of course the Deputy will conveniently forget that.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Supreme Court is due to make a decision on Friday in respect of the Referendum Act referred to by the Deputy. Of course the Government will abide by the decisions of the court, as it always does.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the code of conduct, Deputy Ó Fearghaíl raised the question of house repossessions yesterday. I am looking into this. I have spoken to Deputies Heydon and Wall about it. Where a system has gone through the court and a repossession order has been given, I do not agree at all that it should be carried out in this fashion. Perhaps we should consider an amendment which...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: In some cases, we have evidence of extraordinary activity by personnel. It is not right that people arrive at 3 a.m. to do this.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Repossessions that are ordered by the court should be orderly.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Neville has had a specific interest in this matter over many years. This Bill is awaiting Committee Stage. A number of amendments are being drafted before it goes back to Committee Stage. I do not know the extent of that, or the numbers involved. I will come back to the Deputy with renewed information.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for that. I will update the Deputy on the progress being made with it.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Mathews is very good at raising these matters. He will be aware that the Minister for Finance has met the Governor of the Central Bank. Obviously, he has yet to meet the banks themselves in respect of their variable mortgage interest rates. It is not fair, it is not equitable and it is not just.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is wrong that banks are continuing to charge interest to variable-rate mortgage holders at rates that are very much above the rates at which they are borrowing the money themselves. We have made this case. The Deputy is aware from his long experience that the Government does not want to be in the position of setting interest rates. Clearly, the engagement with the banks goes on in...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy's sentiment. We are doing everything we can in that regard.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is due later in the year.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have answered this already. For Deputy O'Donovan's information, the Government considered a number of reports yesterday in respect of RTE. The Minister has been speaking this morning about a replacement situation in respect of a broadcasting licence. That will not happen this year. I would expect that RTE will be called before the Oireachtas committee arising from the reports. If the...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Regarding the bail Bill, the Minister for Justice and Equality has made a number of recommendations on two particular issues. It has been proposed that limitations be imposed on bail where consecutive burglaries, or small numbers of people doing repeat burglaries, are concerned. It is proposed that this would apply for consecutive sentences. The draft heads of this Bill are at an advanced...
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I did not see the Deputy's sign in Ballymahon welcoming the €300 million investment there.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government is very much aware of the catastrophic situation-----
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in which the Deputy's party left the country.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is very much aware of the hundreds of thousands of families that were put into negative equity and are in despair and disillusionment because of the mess and incompetence created during its years in government.