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- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I confirm, with regard to the last question, that a memorandum will be brought to the Government by me next week to deal with the outstanding reports which have not been debated in the House. The Government agreed yesterday in respect of the proposition that there be a referendum to deal with blasphemy, but I am making it clear that while the Government accepted the principle, it is not...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: That was approved a couple of weeks ago and is awaiting publication. I will advise the Deputy of when that is going to happen. On the other matter, a memorandum was prepared quite some time ago by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform which has now been revamped and was approved by Government yesterday. The PAS scheme on stateboards.ieis already in situand 200 appointments were...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I answered questions on this reform Bill yesterday. Of course, we value the great work done by so many around the country as home helps. This issue is now the subject of discussions between the Minister for Health and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform which will be concluded in the coming days in time for the budget which is to be announced on 14 October.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I saw an excerpt of the programme which dealt with a foundation for elderly people. I do not know the details, but it reminds me of the great expenditure on a field to build a prison some years ago.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I think €40 million was spent on it and no prison was built. The Deputy asked me about the Low Wage Commission. This is part of the discussions the Minister for Social Protection is having with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the improvements in the live register. The figure is down to 370,000 today, which is below the European average. A reduction from...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I think we will probably have it towards the end of November, but I will confirm for the Deputy the expected date with the Department of Finance.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not agree with Deputy O'Dowd's comment that Irish Water is an unmitigated disaster. I agree Irish Water certainly had teething problems during the course of its being set up. I also agree Irish Water is here to stay. It is a fundamental concept and it is an entity to deal with the situation which was allowed to develop over many years whereby we pay €1.2 billion to produce...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Irish Water is here to stay. It is a fundamentally important State agency held in public ownership for the development for the good of the country, unlike the situation, I might add, whereby Deputy Martin supported the Irish Water concept but had an average charge of €400 with no allowances.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: In other words, the Deputy is a little bit like St. Augustine in that he wants it but not just now.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Irish Water is here to stay. The Government will move on a number of other proposals for the amalgamation of Bord Gáis and Irish Water into Ervia, with appropriate competency to run what is one of the largest entities since the foundation of the State, the fundamentally important issue of water for personal, social and economic reasons and the development of our nation as a place fit to...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am not dismissing it. I have admitted that obviously there were teething problems in the setting up of Irish water. The former Deputy O'Dowd was the Minister of State who dealt with setting it up.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: He dealt with NewERA and piloted the Bill through the House. Perhaps if some of these issues had been brought to his attention then-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----he might have been able to change them before it went through. The water regulator has determined the average bill will be less than €240 per year.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: He further confirmed that 80% of all bills will be less than €24 per month.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: We also welcome the fact the regulator has adhered to the Government direction that there be a free allowance of 30,000 litres per household for water usage and an allowance for every child under 18. I have said to the Deputy before that a person living alone will have approximately 40% of his or her water needs provided by the allowance and will pay approximately €138 per annum or...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: These reforms are essential for future provision of quality water services following the debacle that went on for years. In respect of the pay situation, the regulator has ordered and instructed Irish Water to reduce its cost base by €170 million, or 8%, by 2016 which includes a substantial element of the pay situation.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Adams was coming here to tell us why he did not submit his budget proposition today. I thought he was coming here to explain to the nation why Sinn Féin suddenly decided water charges for residential households should be scrapped. The one thing the Deputy forgot with all his information was that by so doing in the way he proposes, it goes back on to the public pay bill...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----extra money with the scrapping of-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I know it is very easy to-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----knock on the doors and say, "We're opposed to water charges". This is the usual Sinn Féin stock; it is also opposed to property charges. In respect of water, it had better revise its budget submissions because it will cost an extra €850 million. What will it do for USC, income tax, PRSI and so on? No bonuses have been paid to anyone in Irish Water and the chief executive...