Results 33,641-33,660 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for raising this question. It is of the utmost seriousness for the country, for society and for the members of the Garda Síochána. The motto of the Garda, as everyone is aware, is to work within communities and to protect the public. This matter has taken up a great deal of time from the point of view of the Government, particularly for the Minister for...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Martin raises this issue out of genuine concern that this industrial action should not take place and that the public can be assured that gardaí will do their duty as they always have done. Were this to happen on Friday, and I hope it does not, there will be no winners. It is always inevitable that in any industrial dispute nobody gets exactly what they are seeking. The...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Leas Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: No. I cannot give the Deputy that date but I have already informed Deputy Martin that the Government has decided that gardaí should have access to the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court as a matter of course. To make that happen, the work of Professor Horgan must be completed. The professor's report is due in December and will feed into the work of the public sector...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I respectfully disagree with Deputy Adams. A firm commitment without a date, he says, is irrelevant. The fact is that for the first time the members of An Garda Síochána have access to the State machinery of the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court. This is not a once-off. While it is on an ad hocbasis, it is a sign of commitment and the building of trust...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is not a case of this being left until the very last moment. Clearly, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has pointed out on many occasions the constraints that are upon Government in respect of the Lansdowne Road agreement. The Government yesterday was unanimous that we have to stand by the Lansdowne Road agreement and that this dispute must be settled within that, as must...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I do not want to go into the details of contingency arrangements when the Labour Court is sitting in an effort to resolve this dispute so as not to have industrial action take place on Friday. I met the Minister for Justice and Equality, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Garda Commissioner and her senior staff during the course of the week and asked that question about...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I have one final point. Discussions have been going on between both the Garda and military authorities about contingencies. There is no question of the Defence Forces undertaking the duties or work of the Garda Síochána. They are only an aid to the civil power and would only stand in as an aid to the civil power were that necessary. Obviously there have been discussions with...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----will be able to deliberate in a way today that can avert the threatened industrial action on Friday.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: Equality is at the very centre of the work the Government tries to do across a range of spheres. I am disappointed that the ASTI has taken a day's action-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and that others will follow. It is important to note that there are two disputes causing industrial action on the part of the ASTI at present. The first relates to the withdrawal from supervision and substitution, which is likely to cause indefinite closures from 7 November on, affecting over 250,000 students and parents. That is the result of the ASTI's withdrawal from carrying out...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: Again, the Deputy has deliberately missed the point. The ASTI's decision to withdraw from supervision and substitution is the cause of a situation in which boards of management are unable to keep schools open due to health and safety reasons.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: Due to this decision, more than 250,000 pupils and their parents could be inconvenienced on an ongoing basis. Although supervision and substitution were part of the agreement heretofore, the ASTI, for its own reasons, decided to withdraw from it. The agreement was to work 33 hours extra per year, or one hour per week. Most other public servants agreed to work 100 extra hours per year. If...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has no leeway left.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: The benefits here are available to the ASTI and I hope the discussions now taking place will bring them about.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: I indicated on Question Time last week that it would be necessary to have a debate in the Dáil and approval from it in respect of the elements of CETA that are appropriate to our national responsibility. That will happen as part of the normal business of the Dáil.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: To clarify, that is a provisional agreement. The terms of the agreement will not come into force until the relevant approval is given by the Dáil. We intend to have that debate.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: Break for the Border.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)
Enda Kenny: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I will give the minute to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, because he can deal with the detail of the question.