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- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who took time to try to understand what has them on the streets, the personal, sensitive difficulties unique to them that they might have.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy thinks that it is just a yarn to say that a person tells me where he or she hides a sleeping bag and bits and pieces during the course of the day, if Deputy McDonald believes that this is some kind of smart alec remark, then it is beneath even her to do that, representing the party she represents.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I think that homelessness is not just a feature of housing accommodation. There are a range of things that Deputy McDonald has not referred to at all. The Government is revising a public housing policy for the first time in a number of years. It is a requirement and a focus of the Government to work with NAMA, which has units available to it, on all these sources to make these available.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: There were quite a number promised; they have not been delivered.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is also a function of the city council. Why am I being told by Deputies from my own party that there are houses and units derelict and left vacant in this city for a very long time that could provide good accommodation, not bed and breakfasts-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----not one-bedroom apartments, for families and for people like that?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is a case of the moneys that are provided, scarce though they are, from the central Exchequer-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----being delivered to best effect. This is an issue that is not new, unfortunately. It is an issue that has fluctuated over the years, but it is a case of organisations and State agencies and Departments and Government working together in the interests of recognising the scale of the problem and how many houses one needs to provide to people.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is an engagement also with the agencies that work here-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----which have different ranges of figures being put out here for homelessness.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not an issue the Sinn Féin Party owns. This is about everybody here. These are, in most cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: In all cases, they are people who are in our country-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and who are around the bigger cities in the main.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have a duty from a humanity point of view to try to deal with these in the best way possible-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but it is not all about housing.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy McDonald wants to take her time to go down the streets herself and talk to some of these people who are sleeping in doorways-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----she, too, might learn a lesson, as I have done.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The position is that I would say all parties in this House elected by the people do not want to see anybody thrown out of their home. The sad fact is, however, that, in a number of cases, it is going to be very difficult for some people to hold on to their homes - some.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government has put in place all of the mechanisms to help every person who is a mortgage holder who has got a problem. There are 47,000 restructured permanently already. The numbers are being assessed by the Central Bank. Despite the fact that the party opposite decried the personal insolvency agency, claiming that banks had a veto and that this would result in thousands of people...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: As these cases are worked through, we will have evidence of the actual situation. If those hard-working people who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in this position of having a problem with their mortgage, the first thing they must do is engage with the lender.