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Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (9 Jul 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 325: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average cost of processing each application received by local authorities for the scheme of housing aid for older people; the average cost of processing each application received by local authorities for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability; the average cost of processing each...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am glad the Minister understood my statement.

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Enda Kenny: Name them. The Minister should list them.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghlacadh leis an Taoiseach as ucht teacht anseo inniu. In the three months since we last met circumstances in the country have changed utterly. There have been thousands of job losses. Unemployment has increased by 42% to more than 300,000. Jobs are not being protected and are being outsourced to other countries. The tax shortfall has increased from €3...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is an act of gross political cowardice on behalf of the Government to refuse to debate the circumstances that apply in the economy of the country on the first day the House meets after its summer recess.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach said the Government is facing up to the situation in which we find ourselves and that on budget day on 14 October it will have a balanced and coherent plan. The Government produced a balanced and coherent plan, or so he said, in July when its projections for the deficit were €3 billion and it projected a 3% reduction in payroll across every Department. I saw the Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has said the Government is facing up to the situation, yet he was the Minister for Finance who presided over this gross waste of public money. He had the temerity in Cuffesgrange yesterday to say we have to stop all this wastage of public money, bring in efficiencies and face up to the situation. In the first 120 days or so of his time as Taoiseach, can he name three actions...

Departmental Staff. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff vacancies in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17139/08]

Departmental Staff. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: I refer to comments made in July by the Government making a commitment to reduce the public service bill by 3% by the end of 2009. I note the Taoiseach has employed a non-Civil Service economic adviser in his own Department at an obvious cost to the taxpayer. May I take it that the 3% reduction in payroll will apply to both Civil Service and non-Civil Service staff?

Departmental Staff. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: If this is to apply across the board, how will the decision be made between civil servants and non-civil servants? Who is to point the finger of redundancy, moving on or whatever within the Department of the Taoiseach?

Departmental Staff. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: I will ask two further questions. The website of the Department of the Taoiseach shows the progress report, phase 3, of the public service modernisation programme, which was published in April 2007, or 18 months ago. In fairness, the first three reports were published within six months of each other. This modernisation programme, as the Taoiseach knows, details staff numbers and points out...

Departmental Staff. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: This obviously means the Government Information Service is duplicating at a cost of €340,000 per annum what is being done in the Departments. In the context of the reduction in the public service pay bill, does this mean that either the units in the Departments or the communications unit will be the subject of some rationalisation?

Data Protection. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the procedures in place in his Department for the protection of personal data held by electronic means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18732/08]

Data Protection. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for that reply. If I understood him correctly, he clarified that no laptops, as far as is known, have been stolen from his Department. The Taoiseach will be aware that personal information on 380,000 people on the social welfare register went missing in April 2007. It took until August 2008 — 16 months — before the Minister for Social and Family Affairs was made...

Data Protection. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: The question is in respect of his Department, but I have given examples from others.

Regulatory Reform. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the OECD report on regulatory reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19680/08]

Regulatory Reform. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the recommendations of the OECD report on regulatory reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29469/08]

Regulatory Reform. (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is very exciting stuff from the Taoiseach. I have three brief questions. The Government is committed to a 25% reduction in red tape, which is a very large cost for business. An employer with eight employees recently told me that one of his staff must spend half a day each week filling Government forms. Is it planned to carry out a baseline assessment of the cost of red tape for Irish...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is not agreed. The Ceann Comhairle's decision not to adjourn the House under Standing Order 32 to discuss the financial crisis affecting many of our people is a strange one. I am constrained by the rules of the House in this regard. In not agreeing to the proposal regarding No. 10, I am putting forward the view that as this is the first Dáil sitting day following the summer recess and...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2008)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps one never knows.