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- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Of course, the judge will have at his disposal the opportunity to have expertise available in respect of complex technical equipment.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not an inquiry under the 2004 Act.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is an opportunity for a judge of the High Court to review all of these papers and present-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----a completely objective and independent report to the Minister for Justice and Equality in the interests of sorting this out.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government has set out its priorities for this year in the sense that the action plan for jobs and driving forward the Government's priorities to grow our economy constitute the real priority in terms of creating jobs. As the Deputy is aware, following the exit from the bailout, the Government published its medium-term economic strategy. That indicates a 2% growth this year, 2.5% next...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's assertion of auction politics. We have set out this clearly for the preparation of the budget for 2015. The discussion on tax cuts is part of a jobs plan to grow our economy and to provide employment. Research shows that is the best way to reduce the tax burden on people. The Minister for Finance has made it perfectly clear that is a priority for us. I know...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on mortgage arrears and credit availability met on 20 January 2014 and has met on nine occasions since January 2013. I anticipate that it will meet again in March.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is correct.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am more interested in taking decisions and action rather than just having meetings. We tend to meet on a monthly basis and devote one Monday in the month to seven or eight Cabinet sub-committee meetings. They start at eight in the morning and go through the day. That is why the committee will meet again in March. It is sometimes interfered with by requirements to attend meetings...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: In addition, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, announced a new €20 million fund to allow local authorities to offer the mortgage to rent scheme to local authority mortgage holders with unsustainable mortgages. Deputy McDonald also mentioned arrears. The total number of mortgage accounts in arrears has fallen by 5,833 between August and...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I remember when I used to sit where Deputy Martin is now and I would get no answer at all from the Government as there is no requirement to make any answer about Cabinet sub-committees. It is an important issue and I have indicated to Deputies that there can be a series of priority questions regarding particular issues. With regard to Deputy Higgins's contribution, we are talking about the...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Central Bank is the client’s own bank. Obviously, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has made quite a number of significant changes to the way we are dealing with the live register. The extent of mortgage interest payments - a figure of 50,000 comes to mind - was so high as to keep people out of work, despite the fact that getting them into work is the...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 to 9, inclusive, together. In the past 12 months the Cabinet committee on health met nine times and has met on three occasions since the October budget. It last met on 20 January and is due to meet again next Monday, 24 February.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: On 24 February.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The White Paper is due to be published in a couple of weeks. It will deal with the changes in the structures that are required to introduce universal health insurance. That will not happen overnight. The White Paper will not provide details of individual costings because what is involved here is the level of charges that might be applied by insurance companies in regard to health a couple...
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It will be published in a couple of weeks.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: A couple could mean three or four, perhaps. It will be within a few weeks.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I know.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy knows as well as I do that when one has the last full stop put in place, one finds there is another inclusion or addition to be made. It is a couple of weeks, but I can give the Deputy more up-to-date information about it later.
- Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: A lot of work has been done in that respect. I advise the Deputy to send an e-mail.