Results 21,201-21,220 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to tell the Deputy one thing; he can accuse the Minister of many things but he can never accuse him of cowardice.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: He is the Minister who, on behalf of Government, put in place the process to try to do something about a situation which was inherited by the Government because contracts were approved and signed off by the previous Fianna Fáil Administration and because of that process, the Government commissioned a report into bankers' pay, conditions, salaries, pensions and so on. That report was...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: First, I want to confirm that it was not because of the bleatings of Deputy Mattie McGrath that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine was able to put €1 million extra on the table yesterday to deal with the fodder shortage for hard pressed farmers. Second, when the Deputy speaks of courage, he did not have the courage to put his name behind the Fianna Fáil banner and...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: He was afraid-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to knock on doors in Tipperary and say "I represent the Fianna Fáil Party".
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: He showed absolute cowardice and lack of courage and far be it from him to come in here and preach about others. The Deputy proved it himself; he did not have the gumption to say "I was selected by the party, I represent the party".
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy fled in the face of the people because of the brand image that the party carried with it at the time.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, put in place the process for attempting to deal-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----with banking contracts that were signed before this Administration's time and that process is in place. The Minister will attend at the AGM, I understand, but because it is his understanding that the response to the recommendation he made arising out of the Mercer report to Government is that there will be a substantial and significant contribution from bank leadership, he has made a...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and it is right that it should be because these are extraordinary salaries.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 18 - Revised Estimates for Public Services 2013, Votes 11 to 19, back from committee; No. 20 - Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 2 - Companies Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 3 - Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to be taken not...
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept the assertions of Deputies Martin, McDonald and Boyd Barrett. The normal procedure for dealing with Estimates for Departments is that they are sent to committee and that is the opportunity for spokespersons or anybody else to have their say and make their line by line analysis of what is involved. That was what happened last week when they were sent to committees for 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...
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The charge would be levied but paid three months later, from 1 January 2015.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, for the October to December period.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Ministers have to make that case to the troika and have its approval.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill on water charges will be brought forward later in the autumn. On the protection of maternal life Bill, there has been a lot of speculation and comment on it. The Minister expected to have the heads approved yesterday. We had a discussion on the issue. There are a number of matters that we must address to get the Bill as right as possible. I hope this can happen.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have seen all of the speculation. I do not comment on speculation.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is about saving the life of the mother and that of the unborn, the Constitution and the law. It is important to get the Bill right. I do not engage in wild speculation.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I share that view. Much of the comment I have heard has been, to say the least, unedifying and not respectful of women. This is an issue on which there should be as much consensus as possible because it is an important one. As I said to other Deputies, if we work backwards from the date of the rising of the House for the summer towards the end of July, there is a raft of legislation to be...