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- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----about our post offices, people must use them.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: They have that right and that choice. We support the roll-out of the pilot scheme presented at Cabinet by the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, and adopted by Government for four hub post offices to be determined as a pilot scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Of course.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Pringle has set out the situation in so far as Ulster Bank is concerned. Deputy Pringle has not referred to the very substantial rural development programme that has been published by Government across all Departments which includes a direction for the provision of 135,000 jobs, out of 200,000 to be created over the next number of years in areas outside the greater Dublin region,...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The assessment of the Minister of State, Deputy Ring-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----of a pilot scheme for hubs to operate on the basis of four post offices to be determined was accepted by Government. The credit unions are regulated by the Central Bank. Two reports on credit unions were produced. The Government has implemented them and is fully supportive of the credit unions all over the country. It is not true for the Deputy to say that the Government has no...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: All the things Deputy Boyd Barrett mentions are available to local authorities now.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: They have been given money to buy houses. They have been provided with money by the taxpayer to build houses. They have been given incentives to get into sites that have been inaccessible for building. They have the opportunity to provide public land that they have in their possession in order that builders may come and build houses for them.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The root cause of the problem is not what Deputy Boyd Barrett says but a lack of supply of houses. I do not know where the Deputy lives but-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----he cannot wave his wand out in Dún Laoghaire and build houses like that. It takes blocks, concrete foundations, planning permission and all the rest of it. That is what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is why the Government put €5.3 billion on the table for the period between now and 2021 to build those houses so that the people with difficulties to whom the Deputy referred and their children can be housed in proper and fit accommodation.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is the kind of accommodation that is now being provided in the areas I have outlined for the Deputy for the very same kind of people who have the very same kinds of problems. We cannot deal with them all right away.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Work on all of these issues, including rent pressure zones and HAP, is in full flow in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and is receiving the attention of the Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the question is-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Ferris knows a lot about paying taxes as well. The answer to the question-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The question is: who prevails in a democratic society? The answer is the majority. I am glad that, in respect of this matter, a report has been agreed and that the Oireachtas can now proceed to deal with the legislation to give effect to that, which will provide an opportunity for people who have excessive usage to conserve water. It will also ensure that people will pay a penalty for...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. The very reasons the Deputy outlined for the people who are faced with this situation are the result of an economy that collapsed and a construction sector that vanished. This Government and that which preceded it have set about rectifying matters. We have done a lot of things in terms of having an engine to drive the economy. The people who are going into the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I want to congratulate the deputy leader for cynical outrage in her consistency, at least. She comes in here time after time and talks about privatisation of the water system. I described it yesterday as fantasy and she is at it again today.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald's leader and party made it perfectly clear that Sinn Féin supported water charges and that Sinn Féin would pay its water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is not here today. I hope that he is in Belfast making arrangements for the Sinn Féin party to come together with the DUP and form a working Executive. We have other matters to consider besides the kind of carry-on that Deputy McDonald is on about this morning.