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Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Obviously, this is not the case. It is in order that there be a national examination of standards in maternity units. There should be public consultation and the terms of reference should be published and they will be. Our intention is to raise standards to the highest quality in order that those giving birth will be comfortable in the knowledge that whatever maternity unit they are in is...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is important that the terms of reference be published and they will be. Although people with experience in child health said it would be very dangerous in maternity units during the changeover when staff were taking early retirement from the service, nothing of the kind happened. It is everybody's interests that there be an examination of the standards that apply and that where they are...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Everybody is concerned about the phenomenon of suicide and its tragic consequences in any family for whatever reason. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, dealt very capably with the report in recent days, both in respect of her advice that she was awaiting two reports to be brought before us and the progress made since A Vision for Change was published in 2006. She has made it...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy that the mental health service was the Cinderella of the entire service for a long number of years. That is why the current Government ring-fenced particular funding to deal with the mental health service and to make it part of the normal quality of health service provided. As I pointed out to the Deputy, that is why €90 million in additional funding was put...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan has had a particular interest in the matter for quite some time and I thank her for her contribution. We are entering a decade of centenary commemorative events which must be inclusive, sensitive and appropriate. That is why the Minister, cross-party personnel and a number of professional historians are concerned to do this in a way which is authentic, fitting and...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: We do not want to get lost in interminable discussions and rows between one sector and another. Work in the other areas mentioned is under way and will I hope be fully completed before 2016. When one exits the side door of the GPO, one can turn left, heading towards Moore Street. However, the gun in place at the Rotunda hospital meant that people leaving the GPO could not move towards...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: The National Archives Act 1986 places an obligation on Departments of State to preserve records created or received in the course of performing official functions; to seek authorisation from the director of the National Archives prior to the destruction of any of these records; and from among its record holdings, to transfer to the National Archives those records worthy of permanent...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not engage in low partisan politics. We set up a non-partisan, all-party Oireachtas committee to deal with the banking inquiry. When it starts its work, it will get down to No. 119 and many of the items listed are inconsequential. They were the days leading up to the most momentous economic decision in the history of the State and the records have all been released under freedom of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I would not cast a slur on the previous Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2, 3 and 4 together. The Cabinet sub-committee on social policy has met on two occasions since the Christmas recess, on 24 February 2014 and 28 April 2014. It will meet again next Monday.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I realise the constraints on the Chair. As I said to Deputy Adams, the committee met on two occasions and will meet again next week. He may well ask what the committee on social policy does. It ensures there is a focus on the fairness objectives and social policy priorities in the programme for national recovery. It assesses and presents for Government's consideration options or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: A referendum was held on children's rights, and child protection has been strengthened through the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 and the Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012. The new Child and Family Agency was established. The national implementation framework and a value for money...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: If I am reading it correctly, Sinn Féin policy is to increase income tax to 59% for PAYE workers and 62% for self-employed people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know very few teachers, gardaí or nurses who are earning over €100,000-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: What Deputy Adams wants to implement would force them to take an €800 pay cut on top of all of the challenges they face already.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: If that is not the case, then the Deputy needs to spell out an alternative policy to the one he has put forward for the last period.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes, twice.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Higgins for his comments. I do not think it is in any way anti-social to call people who find themselves on the live register to discussions about what it is that they might like to do, about their ambitions, their competencies and their experience in order to try to give them an opportunity to get into the world of work. As I pointed out to Deputy Adams, more than 60 people...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I was coming to that. We have returned to a point where there is a process of direct financing of local authority builds. However, recent reports from the NESC, etc., highlight that this model will not be sustainable into the future. We must find new ways of proceeding. In addition, those in private sector construction must step up to the mark. As Deputy Higgins is well aware, 90,000...