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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The idea is that deals were cut with people on the issue of distressed mortgages. I am glad progress has been made, though it is not happening fast enough. We must keep the pressure on. I note that the personnel from the IMF are leaving Ireland, having been based here for the past three years. They say there is a sense of normalisation. A headline in today's newspaper says we spend...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy that courage and leadership are required. I am taken aback by his comment that those who left Ireland to go to Germany, Brussels and elsewhere have not told the truth about the state of the nation. Their honesty in relating the stark situation is the reason we have succeeded in gaining significant concessions from Brussels and the European Central Bank.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not agree with the Deputy that such people have not given a truthful account of the state of the nation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Gerry Adams for his comments on homelessness. A few years ago €50 million for homelessness and a further €30 million for facilities for homeless people would have been thought sufficient to deal with the problem. There are issues relating to homelessness that must be addressed by the committee. The city manager will address the committee shortly, as will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I have been.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I accept responsibility for what I must do. Some €80 million has been allocated to address homelessness this year. This consists of €50 million, supplemented by a further €30 million for facilities and support for the homeless. Of course we must return to the practice of providing sufficient social housing to meet needs, but a process must be followed. No matter what...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 9, Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Financial Resolutions; No. 20, Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 21, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Report Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event a division is in progress at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Rent allowance is an issue; of course it is. The Deputy had flooding down in his own city in Cork and other places around the country. Emergency responses were had very quickly, but we should not have somebody sleeping in a doorway in this city - 154 of them on any night - in June 2014. I intend to see that this social committee and the agencies for which we are paying €45 million...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for those comments. Deputy Mathews uses his long experience in banking-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----to make his point here. I actually had a brief conversation with Fr. McVerry recently. It is my intention to call to him when I get an opportunity to discuss some real facts down there. Obviously, he has done an enormous job over so many years. I suppose I could say that, if Mr. Ross had not made his investment in Bank of Ireland, the taxpayer would have had to pay more in terms of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is a punt that he made. Obviously, with Deputy Mathews's particular knowledge-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: ----- if he was in the same resource position, he might have done the same thing. I do not know. It is true to say, Deputy, that quite a lot of people have got letters of legal import from banks recently. Obviously, the situation in so far as-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----mortgages are concerned has improved. As every week goes by, more and more are being brought to a point where there is a sustainable and permanent solution for them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes. We have figures from the Central Bank, the Department of Finance and the banks themselves.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett seems to think that this is where they should be left.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I disagree profoundly with Deputy Boyd Barrett on the matter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: A system applied for donkey's years in the country whereby those on the live register were seen as a list of disillusioned disappointed people who had nothing to offer other than to draw on the taxes of others who paid for them. That has changed now. The new Intreo offices introduced by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, bring about a situation whereby these people are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The committee published Pathways to Work and the Action Plan for Jobs and this is where the key to future prosperity lies. It is not about languishing on live register lists; it is about being given the opportunity, incentive and motivation to upskill, retrain and move on to where jobs are being created. Progress has been made. Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to the indicators going in the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: How is that in the wrong direction? How is it that today we are rated No. 1 in the world for country humanity, to use a term?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: How is it that we have the fastest growth rate in the European Union? Does that impact on people or not?