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- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, of course.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the second Bill. The heads of the landlord and tenant Bill were approved in 2011, which just shows one the scale of operations going on here. It will be next year before the Bill becomes a reality.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The monuments Bill is still in situ. It will be next year before it comes. I do not have a date for the bail Bill. The courts (consolidation and reform) Bill has not been discussed at Government. The heads have not arrived. I will advise Deputy Durkan as progress is made.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is still in situ. They are going to be there until next year.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: A number of amendments to the Bill have been discussed at some length. I expect the Bill to come before Government in two weeks and Committee Stage will take place then.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is an issue of extensive proportions and the intention is to split this into three. I expect the first of those to come forward in the next session. Hopefully, the other two can be dealt with this year. There will be details of how it is proposed to break it up.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will ask Deputy Jan O'Sullivan who is the Minister of State with responsibility for housing to address this. The housing Bill will be split in three. I cannot provide details of whether the section coming before us in the next session will deal with the matter raised. I will ask Deputy Jan O'Sullivan to engage with the organisations to which Deputy Ellis referred in that context.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: If we are talking specifically about older advance factory-type buildings which have lain idle or were used only for a very short time, I am not sure of the details of any particular contract or lease, but if somebody else wants to use one of these buildings, I am sure there is an opportunity for discussion or negotiation. If some local indigenous operator wanted to acquire a premises in...
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business is No. 21a, statements on the pre-European Council meeting of 14 and 15 March 2013; No. 22, Finance Bill 2013 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to adjourn at 10 p.m. tonight if not previously concluded; and No. 1, Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage, to adjourn at 7.30 p.m. tonight if not previously...
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government's position is that the consumer and competition Bill, which was scheduled for this session, will not be introduced in this session but in the next session. Thereafter, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources will have responsibility for the media end of matters, but the Government will produce the consumer and competition Bill. It is at an advanced stage...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand the history and tradition to which the Deputy refers. I recall the stories in my part of the country, particularly that relating to one of the great initiators of the agrarian movement, Michael Davitt, whose family were evicted from the family home at Straide. I understand the point Deputy Gerry Adams is making very well.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have no intention of doing so.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: On Monday last, 11 March, when asked a question on a national radio programme as to whether repossession should ever be an option in the case of the family home, Sinn Féin's spokesman on finance stated it should be an option but only in extreme circumstances. He also indicated that there had to be legal protection and legislative provision to the effect that banks could not swoop in and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I wish to make it perfectly clear that the Government wants there to be a fair and transparent process for dealing with mortgages. What we want to do is get the people whose mortgages are either in arrears or distress to the point where they can enjoy the psychological relief to the effect that their homes will not be taken from them and where they can contribute to their local economies and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Family Home Protection Act is on the Statute Book and the property rights of every citizen are protected under the Constitution.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: What is happening today is part of the strategy and process of restructuring and recapitalising banks and providing alternatives for people through the personal insolvency agency which will open its doors shortly. In order to rectify matters, we are seeking to make available a variety of ways by which banks can work out more appropriate, convenient and suitable arrangements for those clients...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy John Halligan for raising this matter. IDA Ireland is the agency which has for many years dealt with inward investment. Of its type, it is one of the best in the world. It has an extraordinary record of success and last year was one of the agency's best to date. It works with companies that wish to invest in the country in the areas of manufacturing, research and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The scale of that mess means they are walking into constituency offices all over the country and every single person knows-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that the reason all of this was inflicted upon the country was the incompetence of the Fianna Fáil Government in dealing with the banks, as Deputy Micheál Martin well knows.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy failed to talk to people in mortgage distress when he had the opportunity to do so. The answer to his question is "Yes". The Central Bank will provide for independent oversight of arrangements made between banks and their clients.