Results 27,401-27,420 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----but a formal tender is obviously more accurate because it is a more detailed assessment. That is the position with regard to the water meters. The Deputy should talk to the children who wrote to me.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are told by Deputy Adams that we have to believe everything here. Of course, he did say, "Go and pay your water charges". He supports water charges and then he does not support water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has changed his tune on a number of occasions. The people to his left on the political spectrum seem to be getting at him because he has abandoned ship with regard to his wealth tax-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and he is now back to putting an 8% increase in income tax on every taxpayer in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The people of this country should know that in supporting the populism of his party, what they are being asked to do is to have their income tax increased substantially for those earning from €30,000 right up through those whom Deputy Adams deems to be wealthy, those earning from €40,000 and €50,000, hard-pressed middle Ireland. Sinn Féin will increase their income tax.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is what they want to do. He told us that he has submitted his budget which was exceptionally well costed with a black hole of €300 million, €400 million, €500 million and which he expects the workers of Ireland to pay for by means of increased income taxes.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not believe the things he tells me in here. I do not believe what he told me about Clare and Limerick.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy's people are associated, as he puts it, in a broad support group by the members who were down there the other night, then I ask him to make his statement to Mr. Quinlivan and everybody else. The kind of language used by people associated with his party-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----was absolutely appalling and an affront to women in particular.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams should make a statement asking every Sinn Féin member to cease association with that broad support group to which he referred.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I note Deputy Wallace's comments of today and yesterday. I congratulate Commissioner O'Sullivan on her appointment by the Government as Garda Commissioner. She was recommended as the sole candidate for appointment, following a rigorous and independent scrutiny, analysis and interview process. This selection was part of an international competition for persons who considered themselves...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: With regard to the file of complaints, some of them came to me. Some of them have dragged on for up to 20 years in various forms. Some have been before various assessment or court procedures. In many cases people look for particular elements of justice, as they see it, arising from these complaints. They are being examined by a panel of legal experts. The legislation in respect of GSOC...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It seems to me as if the Deputy has very different view of how the system should work, as he says, from the bottom up. I expect Commissioner O'Sullivan will follow through on the Garda Inspectorate's report in terms of the agenda of reform that must be set out. The Government has responded to the requirements of gardaí in terms of new vehicles and facilities for them to do their job....
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in dealing with the many difficulties with which the Garda force has to contend and in being able to implement and follow through on the Garda Inspectorate's report in terms of reform-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----of the Garda Síochána. Having the Commissioner report to the police authority is a radical shift. The role and responsibility of the Garda Commissioner is changed-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----somewhat in reporting to the police authority and the Minister for Justice and Equality-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in terms of the security of the State.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is the most radical shift in the Garda Síochána since the foundation of the State. The Deputy might have a very different view about how it should operate.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It was with great sadness I learned earlier this year of the death of former Deputy and Minister of State, the late Ted Nealon. Today, on behalf of the Government and the Fine Gael Party, I convey my deepest sympathies to his wife, Jo, who is not with us in the House today, his son Fergal, his daughter Louise and extended family. Louise is watching this broadcast in Sydney, Australia. Ted...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 20a, motion re membership of committee; No. 20b, motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimates [Votes 20, 21 and 22]; No. 20c, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimates [Votes 20, 21 and 22] to Select Committee; No. 36, Finance Bill 2014 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 9, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and...