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Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: As I stated, the unique structure of Irish industrial relations has, by and large, stood the test of time and it is important that we retain the voluntary concept. It is not true that workers are always the last to be paid when companies are liquidated. While there may be challenges or competing interests from different creditors, when companies become insolvent or are liquidated it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. The programme for Government contains a commitment to put to the people a referendum to abolish the Seanad and the necessary Bill is currently being drafted. It is the intention to publish the Bill in the current session in order that there will be ample time for debate on it prior to a referendum later in the year.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is an issue in the public interest.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am telling Deputy Martin that in the interest of public safety and public accuracy the Garda Commissioner has asked the president of the GRA to substantiate his claims of manipulation of crime statistics. The Government fully respects the work that gardaí carry out day and night on front-line services as the only line between the criminal and the civilian. These are difficult...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: Unlike the situation under Deputy Martin's Government, which made very little available, the provision of facilities has increased over the past two years. When burglaries occur, it happens on a frequent basis that they destroy people's hopes when they have to enter their own homes to find them ransacked. We have evidence of this. Many of the vehicles available to the emergency response...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will be frank with the Deputy. I think we had 28 items on this morning's Cabinet agenda. The Government dealt with all of them, including the approval of 1,000 to 1,500 jobs on the Kilkenny-Waterford border. This will have a significant employment impact on rural Ireland when the milk quotas are abolished. It is an example of strategic and important planning. The Cabinet began...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes, it is my intention. I remind the Deputy that it has been 30 years since the amendment was first introduced in 1983 and, as she noted, 21 years since the last occasion in which people were engaged here. This matter has not yet been dealt with. The Government intends to deal with the issue within the parameters of the Constitution and the law, taking account of the obvious sensitivities...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin raises two issues, first, the comments about crime rates and, second, the question of transport. The Government fully understands that the Garda Commissioner runs Garda operations on a day-to-day basis. There is no interference in that regard, nor can there be, unlike what happened on a number of occasions in the past. I understand the Garda Commissioner responded this...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----including, I point out to Deputy Healy Rae, those that go to Kilgarvan. A further €5 million was made available this year for the purchase and fit-out of appropriate Garda vehicles, as determined by the Commissioner and his staff.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: This represents a considerable investment in Garda transport, particularly at a time when the level of funding across the public sector is limited. Currently, the Garda fleet consists of 2,400 vehicles, with Garda patrol cars being taken out of commission when they reach 300,000 km on the clock. That decommissioning is undertaken to ensure the safety of Garda personnel and of members of the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy must have been somewhere at the weekend. I liked the way he started, asking me to answer the question I was asked.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: Did I not hear the Deputy for 12 glorious minutes on Sunday, refusing to answer a question? The interviewer asked Deputy Martin about his proposal to take €350 million from the public service although he was complaining that the Government was not being fair in dealing with the figure of €300 million. The Deputy refused point blank to answer the question so he should not come...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: He must have had a little interaction. I can understand him getting buoyed up by these things. The Garda Commissioner has challenged Garda Parker to back up his evidence for the claims he made that crime statistics are being massaged and manipulated.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I say to the Deputy-----

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Commission Expenditure (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 133 together. €2.1 million has been allocated in my Department's 2013 Vote for the establishment of a Referendum Commission on the abolition of the Seanad.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: My Department has committed in its Strategy Statement to undertake specific actions to promote transparency. To advance this, a programme of measures was recently initiated to promote transparency through the routine publication of information on a quarterly basis. Information published on the Department's website to date includes details of foreign travel expenses in respect of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (30 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have agreed to meeting with the Justice for the Forgotten Group and the families of other victims of the troubles. In preparation for a meeting with Justice for the Forgotten officials from my Department met with representatives of the Group on 18th February and have been in regular contact since that meeting. I hope to be in a position to meet with the Group shortly, and a date will be...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: The criminal law (sexual offences) Bill is due next year and the medical practitioners Bill is due this session. The road Bill is due next year also.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: That inquiry will begin at the end of this session. We are not abolishing county councils, but the local government Bill will come before the House in the autumn, before the end of the year. I expect to have the matter concerning the Seanad attended to and cleared by Cabinet next week. I will update Deputy Cowen on that.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: On water charges, the Deputy is aware that the troika is back in town and that there will be discussions between it and the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on Ireland's programme. The Ministers will make a case to it that water charges should not be applied until 1 January 2015 and that they should be applied quarterly and retrospectively in that they...