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- 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.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is Government policy to protect home ownership where possible. Repossession should only be applicable as a last resort.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no date yet for the publication of the Bill.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The health (private patient charges) Bill will be taken in April. I am not responsible for the allocation of mortgages. By coincidence, the person yesterday received an immediate response and an introduction. I asked her to advise me how discussions went and I hope that in the newfound openness of the lending institution involved, the good lady and her husband will be considered very...
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not advising that the Deputy hangs outside the doors of the banks.
- 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.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Undocumented Irish in the USA (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: During my visit to Washington last week, I raised the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform in my engagements with senior political figures including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Speaker Boehner, and Senators McCain, Leahy and Schumer. The Tánaiste, who accompanied me to most of these meetings, also raised this issue in his other political engagements in Washington. ...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Information and Communications Technology Issues (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 to 167, inclusive, together. My Department operates one LoCall 1890 number at present. An upgrade of the telephone technology in my Department is currently underway as part of a shared service agreement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is expected that the LoCall 1890 number will be changed to an 076 number when the upgrade...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Presidential Reports (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I received a copy of the executive summary of the Being Young and Irish 2012 - Take Charge of Change Report and I have noted its contents with interest. I have also noted with interest the declaration prepared by the participants who attended the seminar in Áras an Uachtaráin in November last. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Ms Frances Fitzgerald T.D., and a number of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Remuneration (26 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) is the only State Agency under the aegis of my Department. The NESDO was established under the NESDO Act 2006 and is the body corporate for the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). Three staff members have salaries in excess of €100,000. If individual salaries were capped at €100,000, the annual savings to...
- 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.