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- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The family law Bill will be later this year.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The director of the personal insolvency service is recruiting staff. It is expected that the personal insolvency agency will be operational in the next couple of months, probably before the early summer. I will revert to the Deputy with a more accurate read as to when the legislation will commence.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I stated, the director has been appointed and the service is recruiting staff. In respect of the commentary I have seen about mortgage increases, as I indicated to the Deputy previously, we wrote to the Financial Regulator at the Central Bank asking if it wishes to have more authority and powers to deal with banks. If the Government receives such a request, it will be considered. In...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: It has not yet been discussed by the Cabinet and the Minister has not brought it to Cabinet. Many political discussions are taking place in respect of different areas of the country and medical discussions are ongoing. I hope the report will come to Cabinet in the next couple of weeks. There are two issues, namely, the hospital groups and their impact on the future of local hospitals....
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: All the Bills to which the Deputy refers are being worked on. I referred yesterday to the intention, as set out by the Government, in respect of establishing a court of civil appeal. This will require a referendum, which we hope to hold in the autumn. The Minister for Justice and Equality is actively working on the matter.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The whistleblower legislation is due this session. What was the second Bill?
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is also due this session.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will have to come back to Deputy McGrath on that matter as the Minister for Finance is in London on business this morning. I will have the Minister's office contact the Deputy in regard to the matter he raises.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Given the economic constraints on the country, there is a clear challenge in this regard for a great number of people. Obviously, with 430,000 people on the live register, we have an unemployment situation that is unacceptable. The answer to a great number of these problems obviously is to have the creation of employment and work. However, the issues Deputy Halligan raises are precisely...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 19a, motion re report of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges on a complaint made under Standing Order 59; and No. 6, Finance Bill 2013 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn not later than 10.30 p.m.; and No. 19a shall be decided without...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This motion is included in the announcements of public business. The question is that the Dáil adopts the report of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges regarding a complaint made under the aforementioned Standing Order 59 in regard to comments made by Deputy Mattie McGrath on 14 June 2012 during the course of the debate on the Second Stage of the Residential Institutions Statutory...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: He could have availed of other matters.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice and Equality is considering the question of Bethany Home which was not a laundry but dealt with the health and welfare of young women and their children. The terms of reference set out for Mr. Justice Quirke are designed to give expression to simplicity, effectiveness, compassion and comprehensive dealings. The report, as Deputy Gerry Adams is aware, is very complex...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Summerhill is an issue the Government can consider in due course. I know it is the institution in County Wexford. It is a matter for Cabinet to consider in due course.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As the work proceeds, every Member will want it to be done in the best way possible. That is where we should be.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy John Halligan for his comments and questions. The advisory group on tax and social welfare was established to deal with a number of specific issues relating to the interaction of the tax and social protection systems and to recommend cost-effective solutions to improve employment incentives and achieve better outcomes where poverty is concerned, particularly child poverty....
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not at all taken by the mock anger of Deputy Martin on this matter. Everything he says these days goes back on what he signed off on. There is actually €90 million more available for the Garda Síochána because the Minister for Justice and Equality was able to recalibrate what the Government, of which he was a member, signed off on for the Garda Síochána for...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I respect the work every public servant does and this is not an easy position for a great number of people, but I trust those negotiating these talks to sit around the table, at which these wage discussions are taking place, and to work out a fair and balanced situation across the board so that we will not have a situation where anyone feels he or she has been deliberately discriminated...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for his remarks on this matter. One of the really strong points coming from the groups of Magdalen women was that they wanted the State to apologise but they also wanted a system which was effective, clear, fair and non-adversarial and non-legalistic. The terms of reference presented by the Minister for Justice and Equality to Cabinet, and adopted by it, for Mr. Justice...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was mandated by the Government to become involved in the process of negotiating the new Croke Park arrangement. It is a wage negotiation process that is currently under way. It is wrong of anybody to assume he can state what the outcome of the negotiations will be. What the Government wants is a fair and balanced outcome across the board in...