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- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The free fuel scheme here runs for six months covering what are normally the coldest months of the year. The Government considered this yesterday. This is a particularly bitter spell of weather. Therefore, the scheme is being extended by a week and obviously next week the Government will reflect on the continuing degree of temperatures that apply and on the weather.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I so confirm. The Government is probably the most open Administration in the past 50 years-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----in its focus on trying to sort out of the public finances, getting people back to work and providing opportunities for everybody.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand the extent of the challenge for hundreds of thousands, particularly women, every day in balancing child care costs with income, careers and determining household budgets. We all know the extent of the pressure on so many.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would like to clarify the position for the benefit of the people. As a result of the situation that has arisen which was inflicted on every household in the country owing to incompetence in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----people in mortgage distress must sit down with their lender - individually in the first instance. They may also decide to go to the personal insolvency agency to discuss their circumstances with an insolvency practitioner. However, the guidelines referred to by Deputy Micheál Martin have not yet been published. I want to make it clear to every man and woman in the county but...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to make it perfectly clear that the guidelines will not impose conditions on anybody. No woman or man will be forced to give up his or her job, irrespective of the reality of his or her current income position, as distinct from the child care costs involved. I know young people, women in particular, including teachers and nurses, who are not earning as much as their current child...
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date of publication of the criminal justice Bill. In respect of Deputy Brian Stanley's comment-----
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----I recall that people from his party-----
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----were miraculously able to get people who had long been laid to rest to vote in different elections.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: On what?
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, is dealing with the matter.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand progress is being made.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will advise the Deputy of the progress made.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of both Bills have been approved. I thought the employment permits Bill might get through this session, but it will not. It will be taken in the next session, as will the mental capacity Bill.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have an exact timeline. I think it is appropriate that the trade unions have the opportunity to reflect and consider their views and the negotiations that have concluded in respect of Croke Park II.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the timeline and I will wait for the response on 17 April.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Hopefully the decision of the trade unions ballot will be known by 17 April.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is only appropriate that they be given the opportunity to deliberate on the discussions and negotiations that took place. There is no promised financial emergency measures in the public interest Bill of which the Deputy speaks. Hopefully the decision will be a positive one but it is a matter for the unions to make a decision through their ballots on 17 April.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have already said it is appropriate that, after these intensive discussions, the unions should have the process and time to deliberate and cast their ballots on the discussions that took place. This affects all public servants and is a matter of considerable importance.