Results 11,581-11,600 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should make his contributions during tomorrow's debate on the matter, which is part of the continuing discussions the Government has agreed to with regard to housing, homelessness and pressure on people in a variety of sectors. I would be glad to hear him expand on the detail to which he has already referred. Obviously, when the Minister replies there will be an indication of...
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is not any legislation promised in this area. It has been the subject of ministerial discussion and decision over the course of a number of governments, but no legislation is promised here.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The regulation of lobbying Bill will be published in this session. The heads of the two Bills in respect of probation were approved in January so they will be published later this year.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: We have made it perfectly clear that there is no strategy in place to force or encourage possessions of people's family homes. In fact, the Government's approach to mortgage arrears and mortgage distress over the past two and a half years has involved putting in place a suite of opportunities for borrowers and lenders to work out sustainable solutions in each of these cases. That is why the...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: In most cases, they are solvable if people are prepared to work out a solution and a conclusion. As Members are aware, individual banks have agreed a number of write-offs in the recent past. These agreements have received quite a deal of publicity. If Deputy Healy wants to get these details from the Minister for Finance, I suggest he submit a request to the Ceann Comhairle to raise this...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's assertion that evictions are happening in this country every day.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is simply not true.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is no need for the Deputy to engage in scaremongering in here and cause many people throughout the country to worry that they are facing eviction.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I have said, the fact of the matter is that people who have problems with their mortgages now have a range of opportunities to work out a solution with the lenders.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: On the one hand, the Deputies opposite seem to want write-downs, but on the other hand, they do not want write-downs. They need to be clear on what they are actually talking about. I am sure they support the cases that have been sorted out in recent weeks. There are particular circumstances in each case in which a write-down was given.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure what the Deputies are saying. They do not want write-downs for some people, but they want write-downs for others.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: We want everyone to be able to retain their houses. When Leaders' Questions has come to a conclusion, perhaps Deputy Healy might furnish me with a full list of the evictions that have taken place in the past two months. That will allow me to assess the veracity of his argument.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 24, Companies Bill 2012 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; and No. 22, Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 Seanad - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event a division is in progress at the time fixed for taking Private Members' business, the...
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: White.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will facilitate a discussion in the House on the White Paper. It is a White Paper. It requires real consultation with people throughout the country.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: When the information was brought to the attention of the Minister for Justice and Equality, he informed his colleagues at yesterday's Cabinet meeting in respect of the recordings of prisoners. I heard Mr. Donnellan speak clearly on that matter. The Minister published immediately the information that we have, and it will be the subject of further discussions here. The terms of reference for...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are being criticised now because we are going and doing something about it, when that crowd over there year after year let it pass by, swept it under the carpet and did nothing. As far as I am concerned-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the Government will bring the terms of reference here for discussion and approval by Dáil Éireann.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: If it is appropriate that the terms of reference include tape recordings of conversations between gardaí and the public, prisoners and so on, these are matters that the Government will decide on with the involvement of the Department of Justice and Equality and approval by the Dáil. I do not wish to pre-empt that, except to say that the Bandon tapes are covered by the discovery...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: A woman was murdered and there is a court case. There are tapes that are very stark in their remarks about this matter. At the end of the day, all we can do is what we believe to be right. What I believe is right is to have a commission of investigation, to have proper terms of reference, and to have all these matters investigated by an eminent Supreme Court judge to deal with that matter....