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- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes, and the point is that all the Secretaries General of all Departments were in London last week for two days talking to the permanent secretaries of the departments of the British Government, going through each and every detail as we understand them at the moment-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and what issues have to be dealt with or may have to be dealt with in the future. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is not, I understand, a member of the committee dealing with Brexit on behalf of the British Government. To go back to the Deputy’s point, he says I need to know what the Executive’s view in Northern Ireland is-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should hold on a second. This is far too serious for mere pointscoring.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The citizens of Northern Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The citizens of Northern Ireland deserve-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: They deserve to have their case heard, argued and negotiated. We want to help but the Executive is made up of different parties. There are a First Minister and deputy First Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: When we meet on 18 November at the North-South Ministerial Council, I would like to think that there is a consensus opinion as to the approach that the Executive and the Northern Ireland parties want us to take because we will have to argue that for them and on their behalf at the European Council in time to come. It is very important that despite political differences we at least have a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy is Howlin correct when he says that he negotiated the Haddington Road and Lansdowne Road agreements, and he had a lot of support from the then Government. This is a very serious situation, and the Government takes it very seriously. Nobody wants to see a situation where Garda Síochána na hÉireann are not on public duty as the only link between criminal activity and the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: A number of trade unions had particular difficulties with the existing Lansdowne Road agreement, including the TUI, the INTO and some of the nursing fraternity. The agreements were reached and the progress which has been made is fairly significant but others still have difficulties. I accept that there has to be a successor to the Lansdowne Road agreement. One of the terms of reference of...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The previous Government once removed made a decision not to pay young graduate nurses particular increments and it is only now that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has been able to deal with that and approve those. Deputy Boyd Barrett makes the point about teachers. This is obviously a matter of serious concern for teachers. It was of such serious concern to and members of the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: Following the announcement, the Minister wrote to the ASTI to inform it that he is quite willing to conclude a similar agreement with it within the framework of the Lansdowne Road agreement. The ASTI, as Deputy Boyd Barrett will be aware, is now the only trade union within the education and training sector to have rejected the Lansdowne Road agreement. These are very substantial figures...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The INTO balloted to stay within the Lansdowne Road agreement. The figures I read out to the Deputy are very substantial. We have had debates here in the last period about the minimum wage, low paid workers, a reduction in the universal social charge and the abolition of income tax for those who are very low paid. These figures for young teachers starting off in their careers are quite...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will appreciate that the State does not have an endless pool of money for everybody and that is why the Haddington Road agreement-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----was introduced. That is why the Lansdowne Road agreement has been brought in as a successor and why we will have to have another successor after that. These are issues that can be dealt with by political decisions, but they require people to sit down and talk about the role and the strategy to bring that to fruition. Here is evidence of substantial numbers of teachers at primary and...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----with the Minister for Education and Skills. I hope the same can apply in the case of An Garda Síochána, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, and the Garda Representative Association, GRA.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes. Although I have to attend a European Council meeting, the Chief Whip will consent to it, if necessary.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will certainly take that up with the Minister for Health directly. The intention was always to have €35 million ring-fenced. I think that the previous Government was the first after many years of talking about it to attempt to ring-fence money for mental health. As the Deputy is only too well aware, over the years the entire mental health area was always the Cinderella of any...
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is not that simple. The Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, is working on this and the Deputy can have a conversation with him at any time about the work that he is doing following on from the work that was begun by Senator Ó Ríordáin. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has increased the Traveller housing allocation by 64%. There has been a full review of all of the...
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: I said that I could not see ethnicity being approved inside six months.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State is working on it and I will advise him to speak to the Deputy and outline-----