Results 23,841-23,860 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The reason the Bill is going through is that it is necessary to transfer the assets and the liabilities to Irish Water by 1 January 2014. I remind Deputy Martin-----
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that while his party might have favoured privatisation for several reasons, it is specifically written into this legislation that it would require a change of government policy and would have to be approved by the Oireachtas.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: There will be other Bills dealing with elements of water services which will be introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. This Bill deals with the transfer of assets and liabilities------
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is necessary that the Bill be approved by 1 January 2014. I am sure Deputy Ó Snodaigh does not want to be here next week or the week after.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: They must be transferred by 1 January 2014 and that is why we are dealing with the Bill this week.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is an extensive service plan dealing with an expenditure of over €13 billion and it is important that everybody understands the full range of opportunity and challenge set out in the health service plan. Last week the Oireachtas committee on health decided it would do a full analysis of this at its first meeting in January. Following that if Deputy Martin still wishes to have a...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Public Accounts Committee has been in contact with NAMA and NAMA is willing and wishes to engage with that committee, which is important. This legislation has gone through the Seanad and is awaiting Second Stage, which will be taken early in the next session. The Whips will make arrangements for that.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Charities Act was enacted in 2009. It provides for a system of registration and regulation of the charities sector in the country. As part of that an independent charities regulator authority is to be established. That authority will be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a public register of charities. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence has indicated that...
- Presentation and Circulation of Revised Estimates 2014: Motion (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I move:That, notwithstanding Standing Order 159 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business, Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2014, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members and be referred to Select Committees or sub-Committees, as appropriate, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I will be at the European Council Meeting in Brussels tomorrow, on behalf of the Government I wish Members on all sides of this House, Members of the Upper House and everyone who works here in Leinster House a happy and peaceful Christmas. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his patience in some difficult and contentious issues that were raised here over the past 12 months. I thank his team...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Following the drowning tragedy off the Italian island of Lampedusa on 3 October in which several hundred African migrants lost their lives, the Justice and Home Affairs Council in October invited the Commission to establish a task force to identify priority actions with a view to preventing a recurrence of such tragedies. I discussed the tragedy with Prime Minister Letta of Italy recently...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I said it here, too.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: He told a very good story about the turkeys in-----
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: As the Deputy will be aware, one wants to be a good tangler when one goes there.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy want us to go into a second programme?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should look at the conditions imposed on Greece.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Come on.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is not on the agenda.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Those are two lines referring to a time to come.