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Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----because the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will answer parliamentary questions to Deputies on all sides of the House about Irish Water.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Let me confirm for Deputy Martin-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Is it right that somebody who worked in the public service, who retired and who took his or her lump sum payment and pension should be re-employed in the public service?

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Martin not know that for many years a system has applied? Are we to change it now? But in the interests of transparency, accountability and-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputies never listen.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: In the interest of public information, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has formally written to the chief executive of Irish Water asking for the information relevant to remuneration, pay and conditions and the question Deputy Martin asked.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: When the information comes back it will be in the interests of the public and the users of the service of Irish Water in the time ahead. I hope we are all on the side of transparency and accountability. That is the position. I cannot answer for all of the people who work in Irish Water.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has formally written to the chief executive seeking all of the information relevant to remuneration, pay and conditions. The information will be made public.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It will be made public.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: We have had discussions and questions here over the past several years about what is different. Since coming into government, many of the political and financial carpets we have lifted have been infested with maggots.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This Government is in the business of clearing up of a legacy untold proportions. We are now into section 38 and section 39 bodies. I assure the Deputy, the House and the public that, after what is happening in the charities area, the sector will come through to a much safer and a more justifiable, accountable and transparent system. It will be the case that everyone who donates to the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am sure Deputy Adams is as interested as everyone else that transparency and accountability be had right across the board in respect of all charities. The regulatory authority will be in place by Easter. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform sanctioned the appointment of an interim chief executive officer. That position will be filled by the end of February. One of the early...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: For the Deputy’s information, the Charities Act was enacted in February 2009 by the former Administration but no regulator was appointed. When the Charities Bill was published in 2007, the then Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, said: ... the Government is committed to protecting both charitable organisations and the public...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am telling the Deputy the truth of the matter. Arrangements for the implementation of the Act had to be examined in detail and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, has brought forward his proposals on how best to implement them. A consultation process was carried out between the Department of Justice and Equality, the public and the charities sector on the Charities Act...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will be very happy to take the details of the pensioner Deputy Joan Collins has mentioned. Someone who has earned a contributory pension has paid for it and it is his or her entitlement. In dealing with the massive expenditure in the Department of Social Protection the people in it have a duty to see to it that the payments made are in order. That is the reason this year it is expected...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: In response to the Deputy's first question, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has introduced serious changes to the process in dealing with public representatives, both Oireachtas and non-Oireachtas, as part of the general changes to the public pay scheme.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: These changes are in place for everyone to see. I am interested in the case mentioned by the Deputy of the good lady who has been in receipt of a contributory pension for a considerable time. If I understand the Deputy correctly, the lady in question was contacted by the Department to verify that she was still in receipt of her pension. The question is: why, following that intervention,...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 24a, motion re Standing Orders 38, 39 and 124; No. 24b, motion re membership of committees; No. 1, Local Government Reform Bill 2013 - amendments from the Seanad; and No. 6, ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. 24a and 24b shall be...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is becoming more and more like Tadhg an dá thaobh.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: He is a history scholar but he seems to have forgotten his own recent history.