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- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Thirty-five million euro was also brought forward this year for people who have a disability-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----people without a home and the elderly. There has been a €30 million investment in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of local authority housing-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and a €10 million investment this year to kick-start the resolution on the remaining unfinished housing development. NAMA and the Government will respond in parallel to the budget to deal with the question of social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The issue raised by the ESRI, which has been raised by many other housing agencies, is very clear. There is a real demand. No matter who is in government, even the Deputy's party, they would have to have contractors and builders provide blocks, foundations and houses. It takes time to build them.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy, with his fantasy economics, cannot put these houses on the ground just like that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: We will deal with it next week and the week after.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: But real, Gerry.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I accept from Deputy Murphy that any charge imposed on people is always difficult to deal with and difficult to accept. That is why, under the structure of Irish Water, the policy directions were given by Government to the regulator and are being implemented by the regulator. Appropriate allowances for the different categories of people that I have outlined on a number of occasions will...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is a massive organisation which has a fundamental and important part to play in the economy for the future. Without mentioning some of the issues the Deputy referred to it is a question of putting in place an entity that can borrow off the Government balance sheet to invest in infrastructure and provide quality water for people and for business and deal with the leaks, the treatment...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The former Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, brought this Bill through the House with the specific Government direction to put in place Irish Water to deal with a situation that was neglected for years. We were one of the most inferior countries in terms of the quality and supply of water-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----with so many different systems. Deputy Martin comes into the House every week with a barrage. He, on behalf of his party, put forward a €400 charge with no allowances.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government set directions for the regulator-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----of an average charge of €240 per household, an allowance per household and an allowance per child. That means a person living alone will have 40% of his or her water needs provided by the allowance-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----which means his or her average charge is approximately 50 cent per day. There are 411,000 recipients of the household benefits package, including pensioners, carers and those with a disability. They will receive an extra €100 per year to assist them. Deputy Martin never wants to know about what he left behind. Some 18,000 people on public water supplies-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----have a boil water notice or other restrictions in place. The Deputy left that situation behind him. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that remedial action is required on 16% of supplies for almost 1 million people, including large schemes, such as the Dublin city supply and the Cork city supply. They are badly in need of proper remedial treatment. There are significant...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams. In regard to his comment on the water charges, I understand Sinn Féin proposes that domestic water charges should be abolished and that this would then go back on the public pay bill. This would impose a charge of €850 million to be raised. I understand from its submission that it has left aside something like €300 million, leaving a hole in that...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin raised this issue yesterday. I notice that he has not yet submitted his budgetary proposals, in which I understand there is a €3.4 billion black hole.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has some neck to come in here and say what he is saying. His party in government proposed the introduction of water charges at a minimum charge of €400 per household with no allowances.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is true.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin subsequently rejected that proposal and is now opposed to the introduction of water charges. If he were in Government, however, he would have to do it. There is a €3.4 billion hole in his party's budgetary estimates and he needs to explain what he proposes to do regarding the €4 billion adjustment he has objected to in recent years.