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Benchmarking Awards. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: That is a list of efficiencies. The Minister sitting beside the Taoiseach, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, has a very important portfolio. Benchmarking was paid to workers in all Departments. However, at a very senior level in the Department of Transport, Aer Lingus gave notification of its intention to do what it did in respect of Shannon, but the Minister says he was not...

Benchmarking Awards. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: That is the $50,000 question.

Programmes for Government. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16821/07]

Programmes for Government. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: While the Taoiseach's response is well-written, I am not sure that everyone takes pride in the programme for Government. When the programme was being drafted in the aftermath of this year's general election, the two remaining Progressive Democrats Deputies sat idly by and allowed things to happen, the Green Party Deputies were seduced and the Independent Deputies——

Programmes for Government. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: They were bought so they would fall into line. I thank Deputy Gilmore.

Programmes for Government. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Fianna Fáil election manifesto, which formed the basis for the programme for Government, included tax and spending promises of approximately €7.1 billion. The pre-budget outlook published by the Department of Finance forecasts that there will be a shortfall in tax receipts of €4.9 billion, when compared with the forecast made by Fianna Fáil, by 2010. While the projections do not...

Programmes for Government. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Much of the Taoiseach's reply is absolute nonsense. In ten years of unprecedented economic development, he has failed to establish any value-for-money framework for public spending. He has failed to achieve real reforms in benchmarking, as we discussed. There has been an explosion of bureaucracy in the HSE, serious over-runs in the Luas and Dublin Port tunnel projects, sheer mismanagement...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: This week another two men lost their lives in brutal murders. One was beaten to death with iron bars and the other was gunned down in cold blood. Everybody in the country recognises that Ireland has become a far less civilised place in which to live in the past ten years. In that time gun crime has doubled, trebled and quadrupled. Gun murders are six times what they were in 1998 and...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: As I stated, it is a case of be silent or be next. The Taoiseach rightly referred to the difficulties the Garda have in getting witnesses to come forward. Deputy Charles Flanagan raised the issue of a witness protection programme. I accept this is not the answer to all these problems. I was asked a few short years ago to meet a person serving on a witness protection programme. The meeting...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: I would like to commiserate with the Taoiseach as the leader of Fianna Fáil and with the Fianna Fáil Party on the passing of Seán MacLiam. John Wilson was born on 8 July 1923 and he died on 9 July 2007. During the 84 years between those two dates he lived a full, honourable and deeply connected life to his family, his constituency, his party, his principles and, above all, to his...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: We do not agree to this. I listened to the Government Whip this morning saying that everything had been agreed here and that all was hunky-dory. We on this side of the House wrote about the proportions under the d'Hondt mechanism but have arrived at this situation, in any event. It seems to me as if acceptance of the committees is tantamount to accepting the terms of reference set out...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: The electricity (transfer of transmission assets) Bill is not due until 2008.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: I will shut up for a while.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: I was going to thank you for the picture you sent around to everybody today, a Cheann Comhairle. That is an innovation. I do not know if you circulated the scrolls and pictures of people because you have left the rank of ordinary Deputy to become the Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Would the Taoiseach like to comment on the difficulties being encountered in respect of Moneypoint? I refer to the possibility that the biggest electricity generating plant in the country could be shut down. He might comment on that in the context of the electricity (transfer of transmission assets) Bill, which is not due until 2008. Does the Taoiseach have a sharper fix on that?

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the domiciliary care allowance is available to children who have been diagnosed on the autistic spectrum; the criteria required to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25120/07]

Written Answers — Mental Health Policy: Mental Health Policy (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an inter Departmental working group will be established to co-ordinate action by all Government Departments in respect of the vision for change dealing with national mental health policy framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24724/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have graduated through hospital attendants positions to qualified carers in hospital situations; when it is intended to remunerate these persons at their new level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24725/07]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Transport the circumstances surrounding reports that his Department instructed Dublin Bus to remove three buses from the 25X morning service serving Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25121/07]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (23 Oct 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 288: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding integrated ticketing for Dublin; the cost to date of all feasibility studies and planning exercises by the Railway Procurement Agency and all other bodies under his Department's aegis currently or previously investigating integrated ticketing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25122/07]