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Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: The water services Bill will be published very shortly after Easter. The Bill will contain the decisions made by Cabinet following the propositions brought forward by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. I do not presume to indicate the details of the Bill at this stage. The Bill dealing with the official language will be published in this session. We will...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his direction. Yes, I spoke to Commissioner Hogan about his announcement of a €200 million allocation for rural Ireland and trainee schemes for young people to allow them to participate more fully in building up the country.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy has it within him to welcome that announcement also.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: The answer to Deputy Gerry Adam's question is that I do not intend to call a general election until it is appropriate to do so. The Government was given a mandate by the people to fix the public finances and get the country back working. I hope that when the Deputy is attending meetings around the country and asked how he proposes to pay for all these facilities, he will respond by saying...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will bring his proposals to the Cabinet in the next few weeks. The Cabinet will consider and make decisions on them. The Bill will then be published and put through the Dáil and the Seanad. It will deal with the questions the Deputy has raised.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is not good for Deputy Paul Murphy or anybody else here to express a view that would put people in a position where they would build up a debt for the future. The Government has listened carefully to what the people have said and introduced a level of charge for water that it believes is fair and affordable. It is not good to tell people to put this off and build up a debt as a...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has drifted back to where he left off.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is tax and spend.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is more tax and spend from Deputy Martin. He is back to where he left off. He has not stood up from that seat once in the last two years to make a constructive suggest for the development of the country, other than to restore or provide money. Does he not understand that when he walked out of this Chamber four years ago, we had 12 weeks of reserves left to pay pensioners, gardaí,...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is the mess he left behind.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Now he comes back here in 2015 to look for all those things to be restored.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Allow me to answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Under the scheme as it operated until this year, administration costs amounted to 33%.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Some 33% of the funding for the Leader groups went into administration.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is not pumping money into rural Ireland for schemes that the Deputy wants. He knows that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: The OECD recommended a more integrated approach to dealing with these kinds of funds. That is why the relationship between Leader and the local authorities, which are served by elected people from all over the country, will make an impact.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: There is a responsibility on the part of Leader groups to work with local authorities and other agencies to make the best impact with the €250 million allocated to them. I expect they will do a very good job.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: In Gerry land, the record shows that Deputy Adams agreed that he should pay for water until he heard the sound of marching feet and thought this was populism which required him to take a different stance.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am sure he read the reports of water being contaminated with leachate because of diesel laundering in various parts of the country. I am sure that is of interest to him. Deputy Adams is the president of his party. It is about time people faced up to the reality that water has to be paid for.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Every Deputy should observe what happens in a water treatment plant to understand the cost of producing quality water for consumers, businesses and people alike. It seems to be fine for some people to say we are all paying for this. They are happy to continue with a situation in which people have had to boil water for years, contend with inferior and inadequate sewerage facilities in their...