Results 24,841-24,860 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, motion re membership of committee; No. 8, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision 2005/681/JHA establishing the European Police College, CEPOL, back from committee; and No. 19, statements on the Government’s priorities for the year ahead (resumed). It is...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Bill will be published in this session and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White, is conducting comprehensive discussions and consultation on the contract with doctors and members of the medical profession from all over the country.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will have to advise Deputy Adams on those later. I do not have the information here with me. The Children First Bill was first committed in 1999 and again in 2009. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, informs me that the Bill is complete and will be brought to Cabinet very soon, in this session.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No.2) Bill will be brought forward in this session. I do not want to speak about the content of a Bill. I have advised the Chief Whip that next week we should have statements from Members on the construction and housing sector. This is a real problem. The Government will be able to finalise its strategy across the construction sector shortly after...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government has cleared this Bill and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is working out details. It will come before the House in this session and it is not far away.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: That will come before the House in this session.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: In Deputy Healy-Rae’s part of the country would they call fermented hay silage?
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The first one is this session. Perhaps we should chew on the second one to find out what is the best thing to do. We do not want to have lower trailers and higher bales but the transportation of fodder is an important issue around the country and there are implications for lower bridges where high loads can get caught. I will ask the responsible Minister to clarify the issue. We do not...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is an important matter and I am glad the Deputy raised it. There are two grants, as the Deputy is aware. One is for home improvements and the other is for energy efficiency. They can be run together in terms of the claim for a rebate over two years. They will involve smaller local contractors and where they are registered, obviously the work can proceed. I expect a significant level...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The mineral development Bill is this session and the low carbon Bill will be towards the end of the year. I would say November but I cannot confirm it.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I apologise to the Deputy but I cannot give him a projected date for publication of the Bill. I will ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to advise him on it.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is due next year.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The road traffic Bill is next year. The issue to which the Deputy referred pertains to the veracity of serving a summons. Elsewhere, if a summons is sent by post it is received, even if it is by registered post. Down here it is different because summonses have to be served. In other countries the way of dealing with that can differ. The discussions between here and Northern Ireland have...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am aware of Deputy Walsh's interest in the new development in Galway. The harbours (amendment) Bill is not due until next year. I have responded to Deputy Durkan on a number of occasions regarding the bail Bill. As there are a number of complications with the legislation, it is quite a while away.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Red Cross Bill is next year. The housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill, containing 42 heads, was approved by the Government on 17 December 2013 and will be published this session.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not yet have a date for that.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The row with Deputy O'Dea and his colleagues last year was about Bills being guillotined. I understand that no Bill has been guillotined thus far this session and there is no intention of guillotining any of them. It is always a case of attempting to comply with Standing Orders and allowing a decent period between Second Stage and Committee Stage. I spoke to the Chief Whip about the...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is true. The National Ambulance Service is preparing a report on the incident there where it took 57 minutes to transport the patient to hospital. The objectives are that a patient carrying vehicle, an ambulance, should be there within 19 minutes for 80% of calls and the unfortunate case Deputy Kirk mentioned is the subject of an incident report being sought by the National Ambulance...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I cannot confirm whether the Minister has spoken to the two groups involved in the 32 persons surviving from thalidomide. I will advise Deputy Ó Fearghaíl on that. I am not sure from the Deputy's second question whether he wants to attend at a Fine Gael Parliamentary Party meeting or not. If he does, he would be welcome.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The issue of alcohol sponsorship has not been long-fingered. I have decided that we should look at this element of it in a different way and under the Department of the Taoiseach, this will respond within 12 months from when we made that decision. The Bill, as Deputy Shortall will be aware, is being worked upon by her successor, the Minister of State, Deputy White, who has done a great...