Results 26,821-26,840 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: We have no intention of abolishing water charges. The setting up of Irish Water to deal with the provision of water to everyone, including business and consumers, with proper standards and infrastructure has been neglected for far too long. The Government has provided a subsidy to Irish Water of between €550 million and €600 million, which is for every household in the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is why the priority of the Government has been to focus on middle and lower income earners, from €70,000 down, and why the rate of tax was changed. The band has been changed and we have taken another 80,000 people from the universal social charge, USC, net completely. That means that 410,000 people do not have to pay the USC. Two rates of USC have been reduced to help lower paid...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 22 - financial motions by the Minister for Finance [2014], motion No. 3 (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the following arrangements shall apply to the resumed debate on No. 22: that the speech of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the leaders of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and the Technical Group, or persons nominated...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is an extra €35 million allocated for mental health services next year. The health insurance Bill is due to be published this session. Freedom of information requests to the Department of the Taoiseach and every other Department are handled completely independently by public servants. I never see the requests and have nothing to do with them. I reject completely any assertion...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I want to be clear-----
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I did not know that Deputy Micheál Martin had become a private investigator.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I would-----
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Beidh Acht na dteangacha oifigiúla ag teacht isteach roimh deireadh an seisiúin seo. The gender recognition Bill has been through the pre-legislative stage and is progressing very well. I am informed that we expect it to be brought before the House before the end of this session. No compulsion can be imposed on Members to attend the Chamber. We cannot require the Deputy to be...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The climate action and low carbon development Bill is a serious piece of work. An important meeting of the European Council is due to take place at the end of October at which the issues of emissions and climate change will be dealt with. Unfortunately, the analysis that was carried out in this country has left us in a very difficult position in the context of negotiations. The Bill will...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: A great deal of work is being done on both. They are not expected this session.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: An additional €25 million is being provided in respect of this area for next year in the Estimates. In the Deputy's party's pre-budget submission, this amount was capped at €10 million.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Both Bills are due this session.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: A public consultation process was held. Groups which bought the loan books in question voluntarily agreed to adhere to the code of conduct set out by the Central Bank.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday the Government delivered its fourth budget to the House. This is a budget to secure our recovery and get Ireland working again. It is a recovery that many in this House said was impossible. When the Government was elected into office, the outlook was very uncertain. Unemployment was rising rapidly, the deficit was out of control and the financial system remained at risk. In...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin. The position has been very clear for some time that this State has never invested to the extent it should have in the provision of proper infrastructure for water.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: No one, irrespective of political affiliations, can argue with the point that something needed to be done in respect of the poor quality of water and of treatment works in many areas, that 40% of water has been leaking away-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and that the charge of producing that water is very costly. No one can argue with that. When Government considered it-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----given the calamitous economic circumstances in which Fianna Fáil left the country, looking at the question of how we could invest to improve the quality, volume and integrity of the water system for the next 50 years, the Government made its decision after having looked at the PricewaterhouseCoopers report. The question was whether we should set up Irish Water as an entity on its...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am aware of the chief executive officer's very long service to the public in general, with a lifetime career in it. I have every confidence Mr. John Tierney can do his job.