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Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----nature of what has happened here from the report I received from Mr. Justice Paul Anthony McDermott about bugging-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----following comments the Deputy made earlier.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: On the Deputy's comment on dysfunctionality, this morning the Government approved the commission on the future of policing in Ireland with detailed terms of reference and a list of people who have great experience in the law, policing and other elements of society. The commission's report is not being asked for in 15 months. There will be a rolling report whereby the commission can make...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy raised questions about potential corruption, bugging and accountability, and she raised the most distressing issue of all, which was the video of a young woman who is no longer with us. We share the grief of her family over the tragedy. That matter is being investigated as a matter of urgency by the Garda. I understand from reports that the footage was taken on a mobile phone....

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----or that there is something there that is not real? There will be 24 homes built in Cherry Orchard, 30 in Mourne Road in Drimnagh, 39 in St. Helena's in Finglas, and so on. These are real sites, real opportunities and places where construction is under way to provide rapid build homes for people who need them. I admit there are challenges facing the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Yes, and that is part of the five pillars set out by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in his programme. The State land mapping process has concluded that there are over 700 local authority and Housing Agency owned sites-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----totalling about 1,700 ha, which is a substantial amount of land. There is the potential to build, as Deputy Collins said, 50,000 homes.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The position is that local authorities are now tasked with preparing strategic plans to get on with that business. Twenty five or 30 years ago, local authorities always built more than enough houses and then they got out of that business entirely.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: This Government has given money, facilities and incentives to local authorities to do their job. For instance, we are now making rental a more attractive proposition for investors. The Department of Finance has set up a working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of landlords, which includes officials from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. We are taking...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's solution is facile to say the least. She could have said 50,000, 70,000 or 100,000 because she seems to imagine housing can be conjured up just like that. She stated these things are not real. What is real is population growth of 3.8% which is greater than the growth in housing stock, which is 0.4%. The average household size has increased for the first time since 1966....

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Planning permission has been granted for 16,375 new homes. That is a real figure. Unlike Deputy Collins, we have to build the houses. This means when we have the planning permission we have to have somebody with the blocks, concrete and facilities to be able to build the houses. This is why rapid build housing has been part and parcel of the five pillars for housing we have here. Am I...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: There are to be 12 homes provided there. In St. Aidan's in Brookfield in Tallaght, 71 homes-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: In Poppintree in Ballymun there are 22 homes, all of which are occupied. If Deputy Collins and I went there I wonder if we would see those houses. Would we meet the families who are there? Would she tell me that they are not real, that they are a mirage-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I happen to know what the position is. An agreement has been reached with the European Council that Ireland will be recognised as having particular and unique circumstances which apply to it. The European Council has also recognised that it has no intention of returning to a hard border. Deputy Gerry Adams says there will be no tariffs, but he is not in a position to do so, given that...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Maybe Deputy Adams and I could form an unprecedented unique partnership when he leaves. He might advise me. In respect of the Single Market, Mr. Barnier spoke here last week and outlined his views on the outcome of the European Council, the paper from the European Commission and the recommendations from the European Parliament. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland want access to the...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Derrinlough was chosen as the sole location for future peat briquette production and the new biomass briquette plant. The review of peat operations was prompted by the very significant decline in sales in the past few years. If the product is being produced but not sold and there is no capacity to sell it, it just sits there. That is not the way it should be. Increased competition,...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps in a moment of exuberance-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: A date has not been determined. It wants an orderly wind down in order that it can engage with the employees on other options, training, new skills, etc.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: When is the Deputy going to join me?

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I can agree with Deputy Martin when he says workers should be treated with dignity and respect, as they should be. This decision, however, was made by a commercial semi-State body and it is not the subject of direct instruction from the Government. If I am correct, my understanding is a very substantial amount of briquettes are unsold because of the change in the nature of the way things...