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Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: There will be plenty of time to ask plenty of questions.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Barry Cowen should calm down.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Cowen was one of the good ones.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am happy to have this opportunity to inform the House of the Government's priorities for the year ahead. This comes on the same day as the Government has published its third annual report, After the Bailout, which catalogues the substantial progress it has made since 2011. When this Government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party entered office, we faced the toxic legacy of years of economic...

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the contrary.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Neither true nor fair.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy does not wish to hear the truth, do not listen to it. A process must be gone through to provide proper housing accommodation for people who need it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: That means blocks, concrete, bricks and mortar. It means one must put in place a process to know what must be provided and go through the proper channels to secure planning permission and so forth. We have said quite clearly that the construction sector must step up to the mark. We cannot have any more pyrite and Priory Halls. Of course it is a priority for the people who are homeless.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: God love them, we are anxious to do something for them as quickly as possible. However, the Deputy will not get an answer to her question tomorrow. There is a process to be gone through, including planning, the provision of sites and the provision of finance to build these houses and move people into them. Even the Deputy knows one cannot do that in the space of a couple of months. What...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes, and it has gone on all during the years, Deputy Cowen. The Deputy is not responsible for any of this, but we know what happened-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----and we are still paying the price. God knows, the people who are homeless on the streets and those who need housing are paying the price of greed and profligacy and money being fired around this country like confetti during the so-called boom years.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: We must clean up that mess too, and we will.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: This matter was decided last Thursday.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Last week, without even being asked for it, the Government gave Members not only a debate and statements but also questions and answers. It is a measure of how generous we can be but, of course, the Deputy will not mention that.

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed, notwithstanding Standing Orders-----

Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the order of Dáil of 27 February regarding the arrangements for the statements on the Government's priorities for the year ahead, that the statements of each other Member called upon after the opening statements shall not exceed 30 minutes in each case.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is wonderful for Deputy Collins to point out that there are 90,000 people on the housing list; we know that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants an immediate response. I am sure she understands that Dublin City Council or any other local authority cannot just move in on a site tomorrow and say a specified number of houses are to be built there. Things do not work like that in reality. This is a fuse that has been burning for quite a number of years. The Government is left to clean up another mess here. That...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: We recognise that the construction sector-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Cowen for his comments.