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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----direct rule, or an Executive is formed. I hope the parties will now focus on the fact that they will be sitting down again a day or two after the result of a British general election in which it is estimated the Prime Minister will receive a very much enhanced majority over the one delivered in the last election. For that to happen, the parties have to want it to happen. That means,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin raised a very important point about the very good relations, with a few notable exceptions, between Ireland and Downing Street. Those have been very strong in the last number of years. I must note, also, that there is regular engagement at the very highest official level between here and Downing Street on all of these issues. I am sorry the Executive was collapsed and that a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 to 12, inclusive, together. As I outlined last week in my statement to the House, I attended the meeting of the European Council on 29 April. This was the first meeting since Prime Minister May formally notified the European Union of the UK's intention to leave, thereby triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, and it was, therefore, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: We have been consistent on that. The European agenda should not stop with Brexit. It has to go beyond that and the completion of the digital Single Market, capital markets and the EMU, is the agenda for the creation of millions of jobs both in Europe and beyond. That agenda is in place and has been followed, although not to completion because it contains a number of challenges that need to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Health last met on 27 April and will be scheduled to meet again in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 17 and 18 together. The Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish, the Gaeltacht and the Islands last met on the on Monday 27th February. Its first meeting was on the 13th of October 2016 and the date of the next meeting has not yet been finalised.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Implementation (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Government published its second progress report on the Programme for a Partnership Government last month and laid it before the Houses of the Oireachtas. Last week, the Government also published its Programme for Government Annual Report 2017 setting out the progress made on a significant number of commitments right across Government over the past 12 months. It reflects the hard work...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action meets regularly. The last meeting of the Committee took place on 15 May 2017. The next meeting of the Committee will be scheduled shortly.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 31 and 32 together. The Cabinet Committee on Brexit has met 3 times in 2017 on 26 January, 8 March and 26 April. It has met a total of 8 times since its first meeting on 8 September 2016. On 2nd May, the Government published a comprehensive document on Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union under Article 50 of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The process of appointing a new National Economic and Social Council is almost complete. I expect that the new Council will meet in early June.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Implementation (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Programme for a Partnership Government, published last May, set out an ambitious programme of work with hundreds of actions to be implemented across all Departments over the lifetime of the Government. The first Annual Report on the Programme, setting out progress made on over 300 commitments over the past 12 months, was published last week. Progress on the commitment mentioned by...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Issues (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: On 2nd May, the Government published a comprehensive document on Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Following on from this publication, work will begin shortly to prepare a further paper on economic implications of the Brexit challenge. This will draw on the work to date across Departments, and...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Martin that the system we have had here for many years is not up to speed in the context of major new drugs that are approved by the FDA and similar authorities. Furthermore, being a small country, we do not have the financial reach to be able to provide for all new drugs that come on stream very quickly. The case made by the Deputy about melanoma is one of many such...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The advances made over the years in medicine generally and in particular ailments have been astounding. The pipeline of new drugs coming on stream has simply exploded because of the research, the innovation and the work that is going into precise and specific elements for which drugs are now produced. The Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 sets out the legal and statutory...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The assessment for the two melanoma drugs mentioned by the Deputy is under way with the HSE. The Minister can give the Deputy more precise details of the work involved in or the point of that assessment.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Because of the importance of family and care services for children, the Government set up a ministry with responsibility for children, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, held a referendum on children's rights and established the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, which is funded very substantially by the taxpayer every year. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has pointed out...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: That was the reason for setting up Tusla in the first place and having a senior Minister responsible for children and a Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs met representatives of HIQA this morning to discuss inspections of foster car and foster care cases. There was €37 million allocated for Tusla for 2017 and 400 new staff are...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I assume many of those recruited will be social workers allocated to cases involving people who are vulnerable or challenged. It is not perfect by any means and there are serious improvements to be made. I will have the Minister follow up the two particular cases mentioned by the Deputy.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is important to say to Deputy Howlin, who made several public pay agreements, that what is at stake here is an extension of the Lansdowne Road agreement because there were particular benefits gained on both sides in that agreement, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will engage on an extension of that with his officials and the trade unions starting next Monday. The...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The working group comprises representatives of the Departments of Justice and Equality, of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Taoiseach-----