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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----obviously is an issue. Consequently, when Deputy Adams talks about pinning down accountability, what can be more transparent or accountable than a seven-hour involvement by the Committee of Public Accounts on national television in the public forum of the committees of this House asking questions in the public interest? Clearly, every party and every Deputy who serves on those...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the issues that have been delivered upon, and the same applies to him. I hear his comments outside the House very frequently and it is the same record. Fair play to the Deputy; he is in the hit parade with that. However, it does not deal with the measures of accountability that are being-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: What is more transparent than the Committee of Public Accounts or an Oireachtas committee of all Members of the House asking questions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and dealing with issues that apply with regard to different matters nationwide?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, the salaries of those involved in Irish Water are known. However, Deputy Boyd Barrett should note that the salaries and pensions of some personnel in the news recently were not known-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and because they were not known, they are now subject to transparency, inquisition and accountability in the public interest. Does the Deputy think it fair that such a situation should continue in which members of the public did not know where their hard-earned money was going, in the belief that when they contributed to charity X, the money should go towards what was intended? As I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is the reason the Oireachtas and its committees are playing their part in bringing about that transparency and accountability, which is the way it should be. The Deputy stated that ordinary people were being hammered. Deputy Boyd Barrett should note that these are the same ordinary people who give their direct debits or donate a few euro or a few cent to the flag days, the collection...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Clearly, as Deputy Boyd Barrett is well aware, there will always be a number of rough sleepers or short-term homeless people. However, when one considers Dublin, with its problems in this regard, it is clear that this is an issue that must be dealt with-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and housing supply and the opportunity to get into hostels - dry hostels and wet hostels - are important considerations in this regard. Substantial moneys have been allocated, and this morning I raised this with the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, at the Cabinet. I acknowledge to Deputy Boyd Barrett that we need to get a fix on this. I do not understand how someone can be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett knows as well as do I that there are some unfortunate cases in which there are psychiatric challenges or problems or in which there may be psychological difficulties. The rough sleepers count, which takes place regularly, confirms that a minimum of 139 persons were sleeping rough across the Dublin region on a given night. These are the official figures from November...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: A total of €31.9 million, or 69% of the national total of €45 million, went to the Dublin region. From that perspective, this is an issue with which the Government must deal. As we approach 2016, the centenary of the Rising, I would like to think the legacy the Government will leave behind it for the start of the new century from 2016 onwards will be a city that has been...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 to 22, inclusive, together. The last occasion on which I answered oral questions on Northern Ireland issues was in September last year. There are 45 parliamentary questions tabled on this subject. Therefore, in the light of previous representations, I have decided to take questions in two groups and on a thematic basis to allow for a more structured...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputies for their questions. There will be a debate on Northern Ireland the week after next. Deputies have raised issues they wish to be debated here. We will have the Health Service Executive plan next week and a debate on Northern Ireland, the Haass talks and all of that the following week and everybody will have the opportunity to contribute to that. Deputy Martin raised...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, but it seems the Deputy is suggesting that because Louth County Council said it would make up the shortfall, we should ask taxpayers here to write another cheque for €14 million, on top of what we were already contributing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The point is there was an estimate of what the bridge would cost, but when the tenders came in they were almost double that. The Deputy seems to think we can just write cheques as happened before. This is a different era. I support the concept of a bridge at Narrow Water. I met the people on both sides and the bridge would be a tangible benefit. The project is not dead. We must revive...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 25, statements on European Council, Brussels, pursuant to Standing Order 102A(2)(b). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members’ business; (2) No. 25 shall be taken following the Order of Business and the proceedings thereon shall, if not...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: It would never be my intention to mislead the House. I expect that if a question comes to the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, or the Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, about Irish Water they will contact Irish Water and have the answer given to the question through the House. This is what I would expect.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should try putting down a question to the Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, for answer in the House and will see if he gets an answer.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy continuously decides what I say.