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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Membership (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: To date in 2013 there have been 5 plenary meetings held for the Constitutional Convention. In total, 19 facilitators have been paid €10,260 and 30 note takers have been paid €6,915 for these meetings.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Directives (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The State has been required to pay fines in respect of two Court of Justice decisions. Details are set out in the Table below. These are the only two instances in which Ireland has been levied with fines by the Court. Both relate to environmental issues which are now resolved. It should be noted that the Government has established an Interdepartmental Committee on EU Engagement to ensure...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Official Languages Act 2003 provides that all designated public bodies (including my Department) should prepare a statutory scheme detailing the services they will provide in both official languages. This Department’s first such scheme was agreed with the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and came into force in 2005. This Scheme, and its successor, set out the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There are no Acts or specific provisions of Acts under my Department that have not yet been commenced.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Directives (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Department of the Taoiseach has no EU Directives awaiting transposition. Responsibility for transposing EU measures into Irish law rests with individual Departments with responsibility for the relevant policy area. I would draw the Deputy’s attention to our much improved record in the transposition of EU Directives. Ireland achieved a zero% transposition deficit score in the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Details of the number of staff appointments by the Taoiseach are set out below for the periods concerned. January to March 2011 Title Number per post Special Advisers 6 Secretarial Assistant 1 Personal Assistants 7 Personal Secretaries 3 Government Press Secretary 1 Deputy Government Press Secretary 2 total : 20 from 9 March 2011 Chief of Staff 1 Special Advisers...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Government Publications Office (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: My Department's policy is to have an appropriate stock of the popular edition of the Constitution available in the Government Publications Office and at other appropriate outlets at all times. Having regard to economic constraints, there is of course a need to ensure that the document is not over-stocked. On the last occasion on which a re-print was ordered - in May 2013 - the Department was...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: First, the entire mortgage and banking crisis is the central issue of the legacy this Government inherited.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: To sit back and do nothing about it would make the situation even worse. I dealt with the mortgage crisis when Deputy Martin asked a question about it yesterday. It is not true to say that the first port of call is repossession. The family home in this country is of fundamental and immense importance to people and their families.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Quiet now, Timmy. Quiet.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is a difference between buy-to-let and the principal family home. I can assure Deputy Martin that I do not speak here as an advocate for the banks. We have had much legal engagement to put in place a whole range of options of solutions for everyone in mortgage distress. The Central Bank Governor confirmed during the week that on 30 June there were 770,610 private residential mortgage...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have engaged with them. The regulator is the Central Bank. It has been made clear that if the Governor wants extra powers from the Government all he has to do is look for them. The Central Bank has to audit the figures submitted by the banks. Up to 80,000 mortgages have been restructured. I assume these are not just recipients of letters indicating legal action.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of these, 24,000 are new structures in the last quarter. I have to assume, without the verifiable audit from the Central Bank, that these are sustainable solutions for the borrower and lender which everyone wants to see.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Central Bank has confirmed that 76.5% of the stock of restructures is deemed to be meeting the terms of the restructured arrangements. From looking at the entire catastrophic mess that Deputy Martin's party left behind, we have put in place a series of options, including the personal insolvency arrangements, which will provide an answer to everyone's problems.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: To those listening, the first imperative is there is engagement between the borrower and lender. Somebody has to sit down and see if they can cut a deal which is in the interests of the borrower and the lender. In cases where people use the Personal Insolvency Agency, the insolvency practitioners will go through all the circumstances pertaining to each person to ensure the best option can...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not happy that the banks have not measured up in the way we would like.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They themselves have their problems in that their people had become used to throwing out money all over the place without being able to deal with the crisis and the consequences of that. Yes, there are people in mortgage distress. However, this is the evidence from the Governor of the Central Bank as a consequence of the actions put in place by the Government. The Central Bank is the...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is a bit rich coming from Deputy Martin when last week he admitted openly that he allowed a situation to develop where taxes became too low, public spending became too high and his Government lost control while billions of euro were wasted.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: A member of that Government was the first to admit, from this seat, that the Government needed no more taxes and that we had enough stamp duty to run the country, and started a housing crisis.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The figures I have given are the authentic figures from the Governor of the Central Bank. If Deputy Martin wants to say the Governor is not telling us the facts, he should say so.