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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: My Department has no record of representations received by me or by my officials or advisers from the person in question seeking persons to be appointed to positions or boards under my remit since March 2011.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of the Attorney General (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: There are currently the equivalent of 29.6 staff employed to draft legislation in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel which is a constituent part of the Office of the Attorney General. Two additional staff members are scheduled to join the Office in the next few weeks and one further candidate will be called from a recruitment panel to fill a recent vacancy. This will bring the total to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Flag (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 173 together. It is customary for the National Flag to be flown at half mast on prominent Government Buildings on the death in office of a Head of State as a mark of respect for a nation with which we have close connections or have had recent engagements with. The flag was flown at half mast on Government Buildings on 23rdJanuary to mark the death...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. The total photography costs in my Department from 2002 to 2010 were €445,616.75. Details are provided in the table below. My Department does not hold financial records from 1997 to 2001 in a readily accessible format. In addition a breakdown of costs from 2002 to 2010 by supplier name, function and cost is not available within...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Relations Contracts Data (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The following table provides details of all external public relations firms hired by my Department from 2007 to 2010. Expenditure relates to the National Forum on Europe and the Taskforce on Active Citizenship, both of which were discontinued in 2009. Year Company Amount 2007 Caroline Erskine €150,524.00 2008 Long Grass Promotions €5,445.00 ++ Young Social Innovators...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is a very personal issue and I take fully on board what the Deputy has said in respect of the person involved and the letters written. I am dealing with a case that came to my attention where someone has gone to the United States for a particular form of treatment. I do not accept that the Minister, the HSE or the Government are not aware of the importance or sensitivity of this. The...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy may shake his head but he went through this himself with sensitive cases. I understand what he is pointing out about the person involved and he can be as righteously indignant as he wants from the point of view of his party-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: ------but this is about an engagement between the HSE, the Department of Health and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is charging €400,000 per year for the drug. Some ten people are on a pilot scheme and I wish the company would be more reasonable in its response to an engagement when it knows there are small numbers of people with this challenging condition. We will continue to engage...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I want to see Mary Gorman, John Duggan and the others involved being treated with this drug. The position is that Alexion Pharmaceuticals is charging €400,000 per annum for it. The engagement is aimed at seeing whether that price can be reduced. The Deputy previously made a point about the e-mail. We have invested €10 million to enable a number of people to be put on a...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I reject the Deputy's story. The position is that very serious matters were brought to the attention of the public and the Government following the revelations by the whistleblowers. The Guerin report was commissioned, following whcih the Government decided to set up a commission of investigation. The correspondence to which the Deputy referred has been very clear and consistent. The...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: On the contrary, it is clear what the Government had in mind. It decided to set up a commission of investigation and on the terms of reference for it. Subsequent to the Government making its decisions, it sent the terms of reference to the former Minister for Justice and Equality for his information only in order that he would be in no doubt that the Government was going to press ahead with...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Tom Fleming for his comments. This is a matter of great concern to thousands of people all over the country. Over 110,000 problem mortgages have been restructured over the last period. The changes the Government has made in this context have been the most radical in many years in regard to bankruptcy, the establishment of the insolvency service, and the creation of the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Tom Fleming that MABS has done great work over the years and evolved to a point where it has taken on some very difficult cases for clients dealing with the banks. No case will be sorted out if there is no co-operation or agreement to engage in the first instance. Help is available for people who do not read the letters or who dump them because they are afraid to read...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 8, Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 45, Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to be taken not later than 5.30 p.m. today and the order shall resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The data sharing and governance Bill is listed for this year and I have already answered a question by Deputy Adams on the consistency of the Government in having made a decision to send the terms of reference of a commission of investigation to a Deputy who was in litigation, for his information and not for any comment. The purpose of this was to leave nobody in doubt but that the...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Bill provides a gateway through which the Central Bank may provide confidential information to the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. There are professional secrecy obligations in EU and national law regarding such confidential documents. The draft Standing Order, which has been agreed by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, creates a process for dealing with...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The banking inquiry sought new Standing Orders alongside the Bill. Standing Orders do not come from the Government. The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis has sought the legislation on the confidential matter with which it is to deal. We cannot move the Standing Order until the Bill has been signed.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: There are obligations regarding secrecy in EU and national law. This was a specific request by the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. The Standing Order motion was not moved today because the Bill has not been signed by the President.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: It was 19 November.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will check that for the Deputy because I cannot recall. I think it was 19 November.