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- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: We had troika engagement after troika engagement that required complex and technical legislation that had to be introduced within specific periods in order to help sort out the economic mess the last Government left behind.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The streamlining of the way legislation is to be drafted in future-----
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: It will have a very beneficial effect for all Deputies elected to the House. I will sit down with the Deputy if he has time within his busy schedule-----
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----as well as Deputy Gerry Adams and whoever else over there. We will sit down and have a chat about this. I will be very fluirseach with them.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I said yesterday that the situation in so far as the health Vote was concerned had improved dramatically and considerably from what it was last year at this stage. At this point last year more than €250 million had been spent in excess of the Vote, while currently the amount is in or around €60 million. There are difficulties with the demand-led schemes because of the problems...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is the position and the same applies to every other Department.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister merely pointed to the reality of the current sitaution. Obviously, in preparing for a difficult budget-----
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not talking double Dutch or double Irish.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The problem is that every Minister is required to do whatever is necessary to bring his or her Vote back into line.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: As far as the health Vote is concerned, it is in a better position than it was last year, but it is not yet in line with what was agreed.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is working hard to see that that happens.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the figures the Deputy asked for to hand, but I will have a detailed response sent to him by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. The Deputy is aware of the Government's decision to ring-fence money for this area and the brilliant work going on in so many areas involving many organisations in dealing with the phenomenon of suicide. I will give him an updated report on...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch; the Minister for Health and Minister Poots may have had discussions about it. I will check that matter for the Deputy also.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is awaiting Report Stage.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is just a matter of getting room to table it.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: Amendments to the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 are being drafted by the Parliamentary Counsel's office and, therefore, we are awaiting its return on Committee Stage. The Coroners Bill 2007 has not moved any appreciable distance since it was last raised. With regard to the committee report on sponsorship by the alcohol industry, I expect the Minister of State at the Department of...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: That will be one of the first reports to be debated during the Friday sittings to deal specifically with reports. The Government Chief Whip will communicate with the Deputy in respect of it.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government at its meeting this morning approved motions to be proposed to the Dáil and the Seanad by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to commence the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013. The view of the Government is that the first inquiry to be undertaken under the new legislation should be into the banking crisis. The Government...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: For everybody in the House, the new inquiries Act offers an opportunity for the House to meet the concerns of our citizens and to fulfil its true democratic potential. The Act being in place and having been signed by the President, it is a matter for the Oireachtas now to proceed in respect of having the appropriate parliamentary inquiry put in place.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will ask the Minister to contact Deputy Healy-Rae.