Results 29,421-29,440 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the introduction of the electoral commission Bill. One does not need an electoral commission to know that posters should not be taken down. It is an offence to do so.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: We are reforming a Victorian-era piece of legislation where people were sent to jail for very small amounts. The details of that will be announced by the Government very shortly.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: There is a difference between those who cannot pay and those who will not pay.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is unfair that those who do pay should be isolated. The Minister will shortly bring forward the compliance measures for dealing with Irish Water.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date but I will advise him of the update in respect of the preparation of the Bill.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I said in response to Deputy Coppinger that the Minister will bring forward the compliance measures for Irish Water very shortly.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Very shortly.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Universal health insurance will not be introduced during the lifetime of this Government. The Minister for Health said that he would bring forward a paper on the costings for that. Universal health insurance will be delivered during the lifetime of the next Government.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy do not open his mouth about health issues.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the road traffic Bill were cleared on 10 February 2015 so work is proceeding and it will be taken in the second half of the year. The heads of the Garda Síochána (compensation for malicious injuries) Bill were also cleared and the Bill is due for the latter part of the year.
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. I am sure that on a matter as serious and sensitive as this, nobody wants to make political point-scoring the objective of their questions. I know that is not what Deputy Martin is doing. For the families of the five little babies who are no longer with us, Katelyn Keenan-McCarthy, Nathan Molyneaux, Joshua Keyes, Mary Kate Kelly and Mark Molloy, it...
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have not seen the e-mail to which the Deputy referred. I would like to read it before I comment, as the Minister would. When the Deputy speaks of bands and categories of hospitals, he is reverting to the sort of system we had for so many years.
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Could I finish? The old system of hospitals A, B, C, D, E and F, and their facilities and services always led to tension between different regions for their individual hospitals. The establishment of the hospital grouping system allows for contracts to the group and much greater engagement between hospitals, medical personnel and the services they provide.
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: For example, in the new hospital grouping, the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital is associated with the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, and this speaks for itself. The HIQA report clearly points out that much has been done in the last period. As the Deputy knows, all eight of the recommendations will be fulfilled. New management is in place in Portlaoise and a memorandum...
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I take the Deputy's suggestion that this should be the start of a new conversation about how we structure our health system and the services we provide. The Minister will come before the House at 5 p.m. and will have no difficulty indicating his intention and that of his Department to follow through on the implementation of the eight recommendations made by HIQA in this very grave and...
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have made it perfectly clear for quite some time that the Government is unhappy and finds it unacceptable that lending banks have not passed on the reduction in rates at which that they borrow to variable rate mortgage holders. The Minister for Finance has made it clear on many occasions that were the Central Bank to request him for legislative authority to deal with interest rates, he...
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The report was commissioned by the Minister of Finance and to be provided for him by the Central Bank. The report was received yesterday evening in the Department of Finance. The Minister is in Brussels and returning today. He will be the first person to read the report, at his request. It was not delivered to everybody else, if that is Deputy Gerry Adams’s insinuation. The...
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The central mandate given to the Government was to fix the public finances and put the country back to work. I am happy to report that we will exceed the target we set ourselves of having 100,000 new jobs created by the end of 2016.
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will come to it. I was unhappy about the 15.2% unemployment rate. I am still unhappy that it is at 10%, but at least it is heading in the right direction.
- Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Clearly, the public finances are now in much better shape than when Deputy Gerry Adams was crowing that the European Union could go stuff itself and the other language he used.