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Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the jobs action programme, there are 270 action points. It is fair to say some of these have been around for a very long time and were never followed through or implemented. There is a range of new initiatives to improve the atmosphere and the environment in which business can happen and jobs can be created, and to free up the road blocks that business people, entrepreneurs...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The latest figures from across the public service indicate that more than 7,500 people applied to retire in January and February 2012. Those figures are based on data reported by all of the public service employers on the number of retirement applications that have been received. It will take some time for the final figures of actual retirements to be determined, taking into account those...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is no dysfunctionality within the Government. I expect to launch tomorrow the report on implementation of the programme for Government to date. A number of the major measures committed to in the programme by both parties have been put in place or are in train. The Deputy will be aware the programme is for a five year period. Ministers are also dealing with a range of serious issues...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not want to have meetings for the sake of it. I would like there to be a purpose and a conclusion to a meeting, following which we could move on. It might be in everyone's interest to await the advice of the Attorney General's office on this matter. As I said, I had expected that we would be able, following the reversal of the Abbeylara case decision, to have an Oireachtas...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I stated previously to the Deputy, all of these functions are performed under a staff ceiling of 185. The Department of the Taoiseach is the smallest and has a budget of only €20 million. The staff include one Secretary General, one Second Secretary General, three assistant secretaries, seven principal officers, 18 assistant principal officers, three first secretaries and staff of...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The ceiling is 175.9 which is lower than previously. The Department of the Taoiseach is a fit, lean, competent Department which is-----

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----delivering on its objectives in terms of output, as it should.

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I said at the time of the appointment of the new Secretary General that the Department would be reformed into a coherent, cohesive, responsive and efficient Department, which it is. The Deputy will appreciate, having served as a Minister in an important Ministry when Ireland last held the Presidency, that it is necessary to recruit temporary staff to deal with Presidency matters during the...

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Their noses are to the grindstone. I have put out the word that when the Department of the Taoiseach comes calling-----

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----people should be responsive and ready.

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 11 to 14, inclusive, together. On Thursday, 9 February I attended the Invest in Ireland Roundtable in New York organised and hosted by President Bill Clinton. I am deeply grateful to him for his commitment and efforts to support Ireland as the Government intensifies its national recovery efforts. He promised his assistance to Ireland at the Global Irish...

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: At the RDS.

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: To which venue does the Deputy refer?

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments regarding the interaction with American business and politics. I also saw the pictures on television showing people who attended the aforementioned expo at the RDS. It is disheartening to see people there, particularly those who are in their 30s and mid-40s, who may be married with families but where unemployment has hit either one or both partners and...

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I agree that the connections which have been in place for so many years, be they in the areas of art, literature, music, politics, business, economics or trade, remain very strong. I recognise that the process relating to foreign direct investment from the United States has evolved from one where we attracted companies which produced computer hardware to a model where a great deal of...

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I agree with this. The Deputy would be aware that there were occasions in the past when a company would seek a forklift driver but would be sent a painter or somebody in an entirely different trade. It is a case for the personnel working in the new sectors, both in the Department of Education and Skills in so far as training is concerned, and in the Department of Social Protection where the...

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: One must judge when to raise matters like this. It was not appropriate in the circumstances in which I found myself to raise a matter like the Pat Finucane case in a mixture of business and politics, as it would have been of considerable interest to the political side but not to the business side. These parties would have told the story of investment in Ireland or heard of the opportunities...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council and of the exercise by the State of the options or discretions in respect of Regulation (EU) No. 1077/2011; and No. 3, Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed,...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Cuireadh cinn línnte an Bhille sin os comhair an Rialtais cupla seachtain ó shin agus tá an obair ar siúl faoi láthair. Tabharfar isteach é in am do chur i gcrích chóras nua Údarás na Gaeltachta agus in am do bhaill nua an údaráis a cheapadh, i dtreo is go mbeimid in ann déileáil lena chuid oibre as seo amach.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Ní droch scéal é ar chor ar bith. Tá a fhios mhaith ag an Teachta Martin go mbeidh údarás ann agus go mbeidh cumhachtaí faoi leith ag an údarás.