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Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: We know the impact of that. There will be no guillotines. I, for one, do not want to see A lists, B lists and C lists that have no hope of getting through.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: This is a different situation. To get any Bill through now, we need consensus, agreement, consultation and so on. That is what Members are going to have, and they will have plenty of it. There is no point looking for 25 Bills on the A list when a Minister is only going to get three or four through. The committees that will be set up by the Oireachtas will have a far greater responsibility...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: That is correct. Many of the lists were pressurised lists in that Ministers had to say, "I got my Bill on the B list"-----

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----whether it was the noise Bill, the greyhound Bill or the bail Bill going on for 15 years. I am putting an end to all of that now.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Bills that will be brought before the House will be Bills that have a realistic chance of being discussed in the public interest. I expect that next week. Issues like the sugar tax and such like are a matter for the budget. The Minister for Health will have as many or more home care packages for this year. He is looking at the question of the waiting lists for home care packages...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Wednesday. It is a bank holiday weekend.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has already done that. There is a very clear process for the determination of drugs of this nature. It is done through a clinical process. The meeting is tomorrow and the Minister will be informed and will report on it. Obviously he is anxious to have an effective process expedited in the patients' interests. Decisions are made clinically and not by politicians or the...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will be straight with the Deputy. This is a partnership Government. It is very different to having a majority Government, because one is not in a position to do as one might like. I did say that if he gave me a couple of nominations from particular sectors I would consider them. Can anybody object to the founder of Pieta House being able to give of that experience? Can anybody object...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Love them all to bits. It is a new circumstance and it is never easy, as Deputy Howlin knows from experience, but believe me we will give every opportunity for those who serve in government to serve well and do their duty with responsibility.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Where difficulties arise we will try to have everybody understand there is collective responsibility on the House to move it forward. Deputy McGrath and anybody else can rest assured we will politically love them to bits, in the sense of-----

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Estimates, the only Estimate passed, as the Deputy knows, was for the Central Statistics Office because the census had to be taken on 24 April. The Minister expects to deal with all of the Estimates for 2016 in the next two weeks and will follow this with a timetable for setting out the summer statement and dealing with the preparations for the budget for 2017.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will send the date to the Deputy, but it will be in the next two weeks. The Minister has already outlined it. With regard to the long list of Bills, I do not want a long list of Bills which will never go through. I want a list of Bills-----

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Next Tuesday, I will have a list of Bills which are really important which Ministers and Departments are really anxious to put through, for instance dealing with the question of prescription drugs before the summer recess. The Minister is working very hard on this, and instead of waiting for it to come through by the end of the year we hope that with a bit of agreement it might be possible...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: One gets many briefing notes in Departments, as Deputy Barry is aware. No memo has come to Government from the Minister for Social Protection in that regard. We launched the comprehensive strategy for work for people with disabilities some time ago. People with disabilities are as entitled to jobs as anybody else. We would like to see them happy in their work and that the work in which...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes, it will start this year, and the summer statement, to be issued after the Estimates for 2016 have been concluded, is the start of that process. I understand that the sectoral committees should be in operation by the week after next. This, in the run-in to the summer period before the House rises and in preparation for budget, is the start of that process. There will be the plenary...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: This is a priority for the new Minister for Health, who will consider it in the context of the preparation for the Estimates for the budget.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Maybe the Deputy did not hear me correctly. It is on the list, at No. 13 today, to be restored to the Order Paper. The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is at a meeting of Ministers for culture in Brussels today. The arts have not been downgraded. The progress of the school admissions Bill will continue. I recently had a bilateral meeting with the Minister for Education and...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The main issue during the run-in to the election was about housing, planning and local government. The priorities were housing and homelessness. It was therefore practical to transform the previous Department into the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Out of that former Department came the question of the environment, central to which is climate change, an area that has...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy should join us on this occasion-----

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: A Bill is not needed for this. The Minister will act in this area.