Results 26,921-26,940 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will do so but I will not stand in judgment over them. I will ask them the question that the Deputy will not answer.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's last question is that the people will decide the outcome of the next general election and make their choices, whenever it is called. The intention is that it shall be in the spring of 2016. That is always the way it should be. People are the masters and those whom they elect here are merely their servants. With regard to Irish Water, I dealt with this matter at...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I place myself, obviously, as Head of Government. The Government made the decision to set up Irish Water and it was the correct decision to make. The Government also made the decision to not have every local authority involved, with a different standard of provision of water and the difficulties that they all encountered. That is the correct decision. The regime that is in place at...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a12, motion re membership of committee; No. b12, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 12, Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013 Seanad – Financial Resolution; No. 29, Statements on the pre-European Council meeting of 23 - 24 October 2014; No. 30, Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Order for Report, Report and...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I must come back to Deputy Martin on the latter issue he raised. I will let him know today. In respect of the report from Mr. Guerin SC, the commission of inquiry is not yet set up. The Government has not finalised its terms of reference. Work is ongoing with the Minister for Justice and Equality. I will advise the House and the Deputy as to the timescale when we expect the commission...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: An immigration Bill is on the clár, as it were. So many amendments were tabled to the Bill that it was considered better to withdraw it and draft a new Bill, namely, the international protection Bill. I have a note on it in respect of the commitment to legislate to reduce the length of time for asylum seekers must spend time in the direct provision system, through the establishment of...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It will be next year.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments. He asked if it was time for Irish Water to step down. It is time, actually, for Irish Water to step up.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The purpose of the policy decision to establish Irish Water was to deal with a situation that had been neglected for years.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I already pointed this out to the Deputy, but he disputed my figures. Government is about making decisions. One does not get it right all the time by any means.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Obviously, there are times when one has to look at how decisions can be improved upon. This is one of them. I do not accept the Deputy’s comments about my being arrogant, having an inability to listen or not recognising that people have difficulties in many ways with a change like this where a new contribution cost is introduced.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: However, he should recall that the mandate given to the Government was to sort out the catastrophic mess of an economic position that his party left behind. I know very well the challenges and the difficulties for so many people arising from negative equity, unemployment and so on. Fianna Fáil had its own proposition for a system of water charges too. I am not prepared to allow a...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am not prepared to allow 40% of treated water in Dublin city to leak away or a position in which one third of treatment works are inferior.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We pride ourselves now on being the fastest growing economy in Europe, with a strengthening of foreign direct investment. Every decision on foreign direct investment requires the construction sector to measure up in terms of apartments, buildings, houses, office blocks and water supply. It is a case of recognising that people have expressed legitimate concerns and anxieties. It is a case...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and that it will deal with the problems expressed by people as to what they are expected to pay, what it is for and the programme of investment by Irish Water. In other words, people must know their money is going towards what it is intended for and not into a black hole of some perceived private company or something like that, which was never contemplated and is not in fact the law of...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I answered the Deputy’s question.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I recognise that there is a great deal of misinformation about this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: People are being told by those who want to tell them that the contribution they will make for water is going to some private company.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy knows from the law of the land that was passed here that Irish Water is never going to be privatised.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not going to be privatised by this party, the Labour Party, the Fianna Fáil Party, the Sinn Féin Party or the Independent group.