Results 11,181-11,200 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: All of the observations that are made will be considered.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy can examine the Green Paper to understand it.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I hope we can come back to the House before the summer recess with proposals on the structure of an independent statutory Garda authority. It is a tight timeline to get it done before the end of the year but I hope we will have the observations and reflections of Members of the House before the House rises for the summer recess. There will be a two hour debate tomorrow on the Guerin...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The process is beginning in respect of the recruitment of the new Garda Commissioner. It will be a national and international open competition. How best to structure that will be devised by the Minister for Justice and Equality and her officials. The intention is that we hope to have the process concluded and the a Commissioner appointed in or around the same time as the independent...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: We need to consider what the commission of investigation needs to look at arising from the Guerin report. I am also discussing with the Minister for Justice and Equality how one deals with all the cases of a historical nature that are coming to light, some going back many years, that are outside the remit of the Guerin report. I am also considering whether we should wait and reflect upon...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: My apologies.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy. Her question and comment at the beginning related to the situation that has applied from the foundation of the State up to the present time where the Commissioner of the day was always responsible for the day-to-day running of the Garda force and the Minister for Justice of the day, with few exceptions in the past, did not interfere with that. Obviously, there would be...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Murphy. Her points are valid in respect of morale being a requirement, that people have pride in the job they do and that they Garda force, as a unit, has high morale. There are a number of things on which the Minister will be able to work to improve that in the shorter term. Clearly, in terms of the force itself as a professional competent force, issues have been identified...
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 4, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 10 - motion re: establishment of joint committee of inquiry into the banking crisis. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. 10 shall be taken at 4 p.m. today and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams talks about changing tunes here. There are a few issues on which he could change tune himself, but I will not go into that now. When he speaks about the housing problem and puts forward Deputy Ellis's view that we should take €1 billion from the National Pensions Reserve Fund and start building houses, even Deputy Adams with all his magic could not conjure up houses in...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I refer to pyrite, greed corruption, planning scandals and credit as if it could be thrown about forever.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I said before to the Deputy previously, the hallmark of the previous Government's catastrophic failure was Priory Hall. It put people into those kinds of housing units.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yet again this Government has to come along and clean up the mess.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I make no apology for saying I do not accept anybody's assertions that this Government, in cleaning up this mess, will go down the road of creating a further housing bubble.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: There are 100,000 people on the live register who were involved in the construction industry, including plasterers, block-layers, chippies, tillers, roofers and everything else. We want these people to have an opportunity to get back into the world of work. We want families, young people and those starting on the housing ladder get top-quality housing at affordable prices, not like what we...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is about people, our economy and jobs for the future.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I met a young mother yesterday evening on one of the streets where I was canvassing. She had three children under five and she cried bitter tears in that she had been sent to a very small apartment with inadequate facilities in an area that is used by drug pushers and drug users. It was a very powerful statement made by this young mother. At the height of the boom in 2006-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps we should also talk about the past as well.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: In 2006 there were 93,000 housing units completed. The corresponding figure for last year was 8,000, a reduction of 91%. We have a construction sector that is about half the size it should be and is very much below European standards. We should be building 25,000 to 30,000 houses a year.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is why some €88 million has gone into the coffers of the Minister of State with responsibility for housing for social housing. It is why NAMA wants to provide 4,500 houses over the next two to three years. It is why we want to see a return to the construction sector with the hopeful creation of 60,000 jobs between now and 2020.