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- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: I condemn unreservedly the attempt to murder Francis McCabe. I condemned those who murdered Paul Quinn and Garda Adrian Donohoe unreservedly. I pledge that the Government will see to it that resources are made available to the Garda and that it continues to have full co-operation, as it does, with the PSNI in the pursuit of criminal activities of any description but most particularly in...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: Let me assure the Deputy that the Government does not demonise anybody.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: I again unreservedly condemn any attempts from any criminal element to inflict damage on people or to make serious attempts to murder somebody or have somebody murdered. That is an attack on the State, it is an attack on democracy and it is an attack on humanity. There is the very highest level of co-operation between the PSNI and the Garda. I had a briefing some time ago with the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy would not raise this matter unless it was serious and sensitive. I do not know the details of the case she speaks of but I would be happy to speak to her and I will ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for a report on this matter. If what the Deputy says is true, this particularly appalling crime was repeated many times. Obviously, there are legal connections between Ireland...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: The first thing is that there is certainly no harm in talking about these issues.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: What has been put forward by Deputy Micheál Martin's party is not a solution because it would refer all of these cases to a court of law. The fact of the matter is that the solution about which Fianna Fáil is talking in its Bill would not actually deal with the 37,000 cases in which there has been no engagement with the banks at all. In the vast majority there has not been any...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and a decision to be made by the Circuit Court.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Micheál Martin makes an assumption that there will be a free for all in terms of write-downs-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----it is tantamount to saying to people they should not have to make their repayments at all.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: I assume that is not what Deputy Micheál Martin is on about. The reason the Government has had to restructure the banks and the Government had to set up the personal insolvency agency was the carry on in previous years. We went through that issue on a number of occasions. It is true to say headway and progress are being made. Since the personal insolvency agency has been set up, it...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: The number of cases in arrears for in excess of 90 days has fallen by over 17,500 accounts when compared with the figure for 2014. In each of these cases it means that a borrower and a lender were able to sit down with the personal insolvency agency and whatever other practitioners were operating to work out a solution that would give them a sense of security and certainty in their...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: That shows the extent of the solutions reached when there is engagement between the borrower and whoever is the lender. During the same period, for Deputy Micheál Martin's information, the number of permanent restructures for family homes by the six main banks increased from 41,000 to 91,000. That is 50,000 family homes in respect of which agreement was reached on a sustainable...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----but the Minister for Justice and Equality is in the process of finalising an engagement following a meeting we had with the personnel involved which she will bring forward shortly. The review of insolvency legislation covers bankruptcy where the banks have no veto, as well as insolvency. It has included discussions and engagement with the official assignee, the PIPs, FLAC, MABS and the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----because we need to be in a situation where, at the end of the day, only the very smallest number of cases - I want to see no house lost - cannot have solutions worked out for them.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: Of course, the Deputy does.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reason we have had to do all of this is the mess Fianna Fáil left behind.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil's solution, in fairness to it, is to put forward a proposition that is unconstitutional.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil wants all of these cases to be transferred into the Circuit Court to deal with the issue of debt. That is what it wants to do.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: What I am saying to the Deputy is that Fianna Fáil's Private Members' Bill does not deal with the most difficult cases in which there has been no engagement between banks and borrowers. That is where the solution needs to be found.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have pointed to the 50,000 cases that have been restructured to the satisfaction of both the borrower and the lender. This gives certainty and clarity in the time ahead.