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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Could Deputy Nolan repeat the question please?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Which element of the Mahon tribunal is Deputy Nolan talking about?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the capital expenditure programme, the six-year capital plan published in 2015 set out an Exchequer capital spend of €27 billion. Including the wider semi-State sector and public private partnerships, the total State-backed capital investment is €42 billion. That will support more than 45,000 construction-related jobs. A Programme for a Partnership Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I note Deputy Boyd Barrett did not set out the percentage sought. One does not want every development to be-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy cannot have that. Is Deputy Boyd Barrett saying we should put all 8,000 social housing residences on one site?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: He does not believe that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Social and affordable housing is different to social housing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Boyd Barrett suggesting that 8,000 social houses should be put together on one site in Dún Laoghaire or anywhere else?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett knows that is not the way it should be, and that one needs a mix of housing types spanning social, affordable, private and so on. There are more development sites for social housing in Dún Laoghaire than the Cherrywood site.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I think the essence of the Deputy's question is whether we can change the balance of the extent of social housing on the site.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I assume the Cherrywood development has already been designed and agreed to achieve a mix of 8,000 residences of various types in an area where there is a massive demand and there has been a lack of supply of housing for some time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The mix of social housing was not decided by the Government. Deputy Boyd Barrett wants more social housing but others might want less and some might want 100%.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I will bring Deputy Boyd Barrett's query to the attention of the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Not at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I think Deputy Martin has some experience of that himself. It is always difficult to get PPPs that work effectively and that can be streamlined to a point where they deliver well. The bundles of secondary schools, of which the Deputy had some experience himself in his time as Minister, have evolved to a very presentable, effective way of delivering high-class building in a short time. As...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The new-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It has not come before Cabinet yet but I think it will shortly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The €42 billion plan is the one that is under review at the moment, in respect of the €5 billion to be allocated, but the expanded version of that dealing with PPPs and other sectors brings it to €42 billion between now and the mid-2020s.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The intention here is clear. I will have the Minister, Deputy Bruton, respond directly to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action has met on five occasions since it was reconstituted in June 2016. The last meeting of the Cabinet committee took place on 15 May 2017. The next meeting of the Cabinet committee will be scheduled shortly. My Department provides the secretariat to the...