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Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is what happens when one has an unplanned decentralised system. If Departments were decentralised all over the country when the banking crisis erupted, there would have been chaos. A number of years ago we pointed out how decentralisation should have been implemented. Where decentralisation was planned in Donegal, Tullamore and other places around the country it has worked very well....

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government has distanced itself from its own responsibilities. The Government set up the National Competitiveness Council and then ignored all of its reports and recommendations. It has mired businesses in red tape and regulation. I urge the Government to talk to shop owners and small business people. They are spending half a day a week filling in forms for the Government and now...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The banking sector which in many ways was responsible for so much angst is now in a bizarre relationship with the Government. We do not yet know the extent of the bad debt or rolled up interest in that sector. I hope that when the Government publishes its scheme tomorrow, all of that detail will be made available so that we will know to what we are signing up. This Government continues to...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Minister said "allowing for the introduction of an inter-city service from Limerick to Galway". With regard to the service from Athenry to Galway, will that be by rail sometime in the future?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Is that by bus?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Will the route to Athenry be completed next year?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Is it bus from there to Galway? What does that mean?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: However, there is no timescale for that.

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied); his views on whether the European Union, International Energy Agency and most experts see storage, particularly pumped storage, as being crucial to renewable electricity policy; if he or the agencies for which he has...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding new accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35063/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the situation facing persons wishing to become a special needs assistant, who do not possess an educational qualification in Irish at junior certificate level, that some of these people may have received their primary level education outside the State and have not had the option of studying Irish...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is not agreed. I do not want to agree to anything in the Order of Business until we get clarification from the Tánaiste on behalf of the Government about what amounts to the most stupid, callous own goal ever——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——perpetrated by a Government on elderly folk in regard to the medical card issue announced in the budget on Tuesday. There has been nothing but confusion and laying blame from one Minister to another over this matter. Even this very morning from Brussels the Minister for Finance said the Minister for Health and Children would have ample time between now and January to sort out any...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The difficulty is that the decision made by the Government and announced in the budget has driven a stake through the integrity of older folk in Ireland.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government has taken away their medical cards.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: This is more serious than the rules of the House.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government proposed to take away nine tenths of the medical cards granted to people over 70——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——who lived in that comfort zone and who have now pointed out all of the anomalies that arise since.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: For instance, in the assessment for their medical cards people's savings, investments or properties that are not mortgaged will now be taken as part of their income and will expose them to the 2% income levy as well.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government only charged the banks €500 million when it could have charged a much higher amount and forget this nonsense of taking away people's medical cards.