Results 16,101-16,120 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am interested in hearing where the Deputy got his information about big gardens and sprawling estates.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy must have heard about them through his private school education.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy spoke about gardens being used for commercial purposes. I do not know if he has a garden where he plants a few cabbages or potatoes for sale at the local market on Saturday mornings.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: However, the Deputy is entitled, given Ireland is a country in which there is plenty of land, to have the space to stand outside his house and look back at it to see if it has been painted properly.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: What is being introduced is a property tax on the house. If the Deputy is proposing a tax on every square centimetre of land in the county, it is not appropriate to do so now.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is a house property tax, the valuation of which is determined by the owner in accordance with estimates submitted by the Revenue Commissioners based on localities.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is not a case of confining everybody to the four walls of the house, as Deputy Mattie McGrath knows-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----rather it is a case of allowing a small space around a house, where appropriate. The valuation is on the house as determined by the owner. This is a house property tax, not a land tax. I hope the Deputy understands.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 22, inclusive, together. I attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December last. While there, I availed of the opportunity to have a number of bilateral meetings, including with Prime Minister Stoltenberg of Norway and Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark. During these meetings, I emphasised Ireland's efforts to make legacy...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have discussed this matter in the past. Obviously everybody would like us to have appropriate centenary celebrations in 2016. A number of features in our capital city need to be attended to, including the military archives in Cathal Brugha Barracks, the courthouse in Kilmainham Gaol, the GPO itself and, as the Deputy mentioned, 14-17 Moore Street, which I have referred to as the lanes of...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have no objection to meeting individual groups. It is a question of availability and time. Clearly the relatives of the 1916 personnel have a particular allegiance, understanding and tradition.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is not an issue. When Deputy Adams asks me whether I am prepared to meet these people, the answer is "yes", of course. This is not an individual solo run by a Kerry man, although they are well able to do that. The Minister is charged with chairing the committee dealing with appropriate centenary celebrations and commemorations. In that sense, I believe the majority of Members of the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want him to understand it is a matter of interest for everybody. We can report progress to the House as needs be.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin should reflect on the situation that has evolved here. In view of the requirement to have an extra €3 billion of savings by 2015, the take from public pay is €1 billion between now and 2015, as 35% of spending goes on the public pay bill. The situation is that the unions and management negotiated this over a number of weeks and the LRC put forward its...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is advisable that we in this House express our respect for the trade unions which go about their business in representing their members in the best way possible.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Some nurses were represented at the talks; others were not.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The case Deputy Martin mentions may be a person who works a very different pattern of work than an average worker every week and may be at the extreme end of increments and premium payments. The point here is that these negotiations were the first and the most detailed. They were spread out across the spectrum, from those who earn the most to all of those under €65,000-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who are not having any direct pay cuts applied to them. Everybody will make a contribution to reaching the target set here, which is about sorting out the public finances, getting the deficit down to 3% by 2015 and making arrangements that every person in the public sector, from the highest to the latest recruit, would make a contribution towards what is essentially a national...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are the fairest across the board because they have been negotiated by the unions who clearly have made fundamental adjustments to original propositions.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: In having that respect for all of those unions, I now want them to have the time to assess-----