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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Higgins for his comments. On the question of exiting the bailout by the end of 2013, I believe this was an achievement that was regarded objectively by markets and international analysts as being significant and being the first eurozone country to exit a bailout programme. Market sentiment which has neither sympathy nor memory reflected that in its opinion. I was glad to see...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I referred to its views on regional peace in the Gulf states and that region and to its appointment to the human rights seat at the United Nations, which Ireland currently occupies. The Deputy might well laugh, but that is the forum for dealing with issues where human rights are concerned. The question of human rights in the general region was raised in those discussions. I have to say...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I understand some further costs will arise, although we do not yet have a figure for those.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I cannot say. A figure has been included for this year and the sole member of the tribunal is working on the issue. He has indicated he will be able to finalise the costs fairly soon.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: That is on the basis of the cases to be decided by both divisions in respect of what will be the final costs. I cannot state that this will be the end of the matter. I expect there will be some further claims and costs.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I cannot put a figure on it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: If I knew the answer to the Deputy's question, I would give him it but I do not know the figure.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Irish Water was set up by a Government decision to provide a single utility to take over from 34 local authorities and deal with the situation that has arisen in recent years in the context of the supply of quality water, the capacity and standard of that supply and so on and the opportunity by so doing to extract and save €1.1 billion in operating costs over the next seven years....

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Also, the scale of holidays is seven days less.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The chief executive will be happy to lay all of that out before people to ensure there is full transparency in that regard. As the Deputy knows, Irish Water will be subject to the freedom of information Act. The apology given by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to Deputy Cowen and some other Member who put in a question was because-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes. It was because the Department sent it to the company, the parliamentary questions having come in the normal way, and they were not followed up by the company. The apology was on that basis. This is a public utility and as I said last week, it will be scrutinised by the Oireachtas and by civil society because it is subject to the freedom of information Act. That is the reason it was...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: All of the information is available to the chief executive of Irish Water.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It should be put in the public domain and there is nothing to hide. Those who were employees of local authorities were subject to the Haddington Road agreement and were part of the discussions and negotiations.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin made the point about PwC. The Government must make decisions, just as Deputy Martin's Government did. I distinctly remember the previous Administration paid €7 million to a major financial company in respect of the bank guarantee. Deputy Martin said he should not have done what he did, yet that was paid for three days' work.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin continuously interrupts, but the situation in our country is that 18,000 people on public water supplies either must boil water or have a restriction in place. Can we continue with that? The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that we must take remedial action on supplies where there are risks-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----covering almost 1 million people, or 16% of supplies, and including some of the very large supply areas such as parts of the Dublin city water supply and the Cork city supply. In Dublin there are serious supply constraints, as daily demand is 96% of supply. We saw what happened with the Poulaphouca reservoir before Christmas. There are still large amounts of water unaccounted for,...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----and it should not continue. Irish Water is a new utility to provide a facility for consumers, businesses and future development with high standards, efficiency in terms of leaks and delivery, and capacity for the future. It stands to reason. I meet companies that come to me and say we need X million litres per day. We cannot have up to 40% of the taxes people pay leaking into the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams's comments about the edifice of the health service crumbling are an insult to those who work in front-line services in every hospital across the country. Anyone who has had the opportunity to sit in an emergency unit can see the work done by people in challenging positions.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams should not tell us it is crumbling. Deputy Adams, above all people, decided to fly off to other pastures to have his treatment carried out, and good luck to him.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The number of patients on trolleys in hospitals was 40% lower in the first two weeks of this year compared to two years ago. The number of patients counted on trolleys was one third lower last year compared to 2011. That amounts to 30,000 fewer patients waiting on trolleys. Since we began to count such things in hospitals, why is it that we always had a spike in numbers waiting in January?...