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Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: Everyone has the same access to that report because it is a published report on the direction of a High Court judge. In respect of access about the matters of surveillance, it is a published report each year.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am advised that a letter has been prepared for Deputy McDonald on that matter. The effective date for implementation is 31 March.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I stated there was a letter for the Deputy regarding the other matter of 31 March. For once, I can confirm to the Deputy that there is no blockage in the Department of Health.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The reason is that this Bill on restorative justice is coming from the Department of Justice and Equality.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is on the A list and will be published this session. The Government made it clear in respect of the Magdalen decision that it wished to be as generous as possible to those who live within and outside the State. The Magdalen report is being implemented. Much work is being undertaken, payments are being made, etc. This Bill from the Department of Justice and Equality dealing with these...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The matter is one for discussion on Private Members' Business in the Seanad. Deputy Naughten is aware of the Vision for Change document setting out the view on how psychiatric conditions should be dealt with for the future. I am aware of the situation in Ballinasloe in both St. Brigid's Hospital and Portiuncula Hospital. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Vision for Change document is accepted by all as the right way to go. It is a case of not losing focus on the patients, who should be the central feature of all concerns here - both the younger psychiatric patients and elderly people with a psychiatric condition.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The heads have been approved, the Bill is expected this session and these matters can be raised at the committee hearings.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White, is concluding his work on this. We are a while away from publication yet.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is part of the more open process to have the committees take pre-legislative hearings in order to engage with civic society to a far greater extent than ever before. That is concluded by the committee and it will send a report to the Minister, who will then prepare the detailed process of the legislation. It is on the conveyor belt, but having engaged with wider society far earlier than...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not due until the back end of this year. The Betting (Amendment) Bill awaits Committee Stage. The National Treasury Management Agency (amendment) No. 1 Bill, which will deal with the strategic investment fund legislation, is listed for publication this session. That is practically finalised and I expect it to be published very soon.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Red Cross (amendment) Bill is not listed on the current programme and the heads have not come before Government. At the current rate of progress it will be next year before it is published. I asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, to send around an up-to-date information note on the adoption Bill for Members of the House. This is not as easy as it seems....

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: We are still talking to the CAB about that Bill. The CAB has raised a number of issues that need to be teased out. I presume the organisations Deputy O'Dea mentioned were anxious about the gender Bill have already given their proposals at the pre-legislative hearings. It now goes into the process of a report being prepared for the Minister and they can then translate this into the...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The pre-legislative hearings on this are finished and the education (admission to school) Bill is for this session.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will have to get back to the Deputy on when the health information Bill will be published. I will forward the up-to-date details to him.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Bill has been on the Seanad Order Paper for some time. It was produced by the previous Government but has not been moved in the Seanad. Let us find out why not.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais), 2014: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: First Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: No.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Issues (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: No official body under the aegis of my Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by www.pricestats.com.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Local Authority Functions (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: My Department has not conferred any new powers on, or functions to, Local Authorities since this Government took office.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Issues (18 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am responsible for answering parliamentary questions in relation to the National Economic and Social Development Office (which is the body corporate for the National Economic and Social Council), the only State Agency under the aegis of my Department. I am also accountable to the Dáil in a limited way in respect of a number of State offices, for example, the legal offices of the...