Results 32,801-32,820 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: For many years, the Irish representation in Brussels, as the Chairman will know from his own experience, has actually performed exceptionally well. It has been very good at making contacts with the different elements of the institutions, the Commission and so on. The Chairman said that the officials might have appeared to "turn native". It is important to hear that they follow political...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: To the end of 2015, a total of 58 bills of cost amounting to €13.945 million were settled for a total of €6.667 million. Settlement costs in excess of €20,000 are published by period on the Department's website. The Moriarty tribunal is currently dealing with the remaining applications for third party costs. The Sole Member has indicated that the majority of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: I spoke to the First Minister last week by telephone. I also spoke to the Deputy First Minister, the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament and to the British Prime Minister, who had engagements at the European Council with many Leaders. This is unprecedented in the sense of a decision like this not having been made before. People said that it was inconceivable that Britain would leave...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: I had no intention of putting forward a view that a statutory-based forum or a statutory-based institution be set up. Ministers currently meet on a regular basis through the North-South Ministerial Council. We also have other North-South bodies and State agencies, including the British-Irish Council, the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and so on. From that point of view, I was struck...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: It was and remains a good idea. I keep an invitation open to everybody if they want to follow through on this. There is nothing in this other than the capacity for everybody who wants to have a say and who has a point of view or a proposal to be able to state it cogently and clearly. All of the bodies are talking to each other. From assessing all of that, my idea was that it would be...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: That is true, but the assessments and estimates were all wrong; they were €20 million or more out of line. We cannot expect to plan properly if at the end of the process the European Commission will not have anything further to do with Northern Ireland. We need clarity. The first thing is that the British Prime Minister will have to state his view. The process of triggering Article...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams did mention to me last week here in the House that he had written to me.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: I am not taking anything from Deputy Adams. I am not sure whether the Deputy was talking about a statutory forum that would be put in place like any of the other institutions. Deputy Adams's idea certainly has merit and value and I share his view that it is necessary that everybody works together in the common interest of all the people of the island. I also share Deputy Adams' view - it...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy makes the point that I share, which is that everybody must work together here. If I proceed to set up a forum that has no participation from other parties, it will become divisive, which is not in the interest of the island of Ireland and its people, North and South. The Deputy's proposition might be slightly different from mine but there is a welcome opportunity for people from...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin mentioned a previous situation in which a Fine Gael Taoiseach had a view rejected. I point out to him that within 12 months of that, the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed. I think the opportunity is still there for everybody to participate in an island conversation about the common challenges that we face here. That invitation remains open. In respect of the Deputy's...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "Yes, I do." I believe the Attorney General is the legal adviser to the Government under Article 30 of Bunreacht na hÉireann and I accept the advice of the Attorney General. The Supreme Court eventually determines constitutionality-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin asked me a question: do I accept that the Attorney General is the legal adviser to the Government? The answer to that question is "Yes." Second, do I accept the advice given by the Attorney General? The answer to that question is "Yes, absolutely, 100%."

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for the notice about the protest. This is one of the most important developments in the country in a long period because of years and years of neglect during which the Irish water system and the Irish wastewater system have been woefully inadequate. The city in which the Deputy lives has been on a knife edge in terms of its capacity for clean water for many years.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: That will not improve without Irish Water being able to invest seriously in improving capacity to supply clean water in huge volumes and to deal with the leakage that, in many cases, has been happening for 100 years. Irish Water has invested over €400 million since 2015, an increase of 37% on the estimated €300 million spent in 2013. Since January 2014, it has built 20 new and...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: These are people of particular abilities and experience who have a lot to offer in terms of the expert group that is being set up. Everybody has a view and everybody can have a proposition. Everybody can have their say about what should be done but what has to be done is to continue to invest in the capacity to deliver clean water for people, volumes of water for business and wastewater...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: The people who are on this expert commission applied for it. Their expertise speaks for itself.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister brought those names before Cabinet. They are there to do a specific job and that is to advise on the workings of Irish Water and how it should go about its business in an efficient and professional manner to provide a proper service for the millions of people throughout the country who have not had it for years because of neglect and lack of investment.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has a very different view of how Irish Water should be funded. The process the Minister has put in place with the suspension of charges for nine months will allow for all of these matters to be dealt with, and it will come back here eventually in terms of a decision being made by the House.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Enda Kenny: In the latter case, this morning, the Cabinet approved a proposition for a new service to be provided, to be funded over the next three years by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dealing with a code of conduct and the particular difficulties that have arisen with the number of mortgages in respect of which there has been no contact whatsoever with lending institutions for quite...