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- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (7 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance when the payment services directive will be transposed here; the reason there has been a delay; if he is confident he will have the necessary legislation in place before November 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14145/09]
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (7 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the development of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if his attention has been drawn to the growth of this all-Irish secondary school and the cost involved to the promoters of the school in having to pay teachers from their own resources; the assistance he expects to provide to this school during...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (7 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 384: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo following a report carried out by consultants; if his Department has made contact with the school in respect of their application for funding under the summer works scheme to have these works carried out as per a previous parliamentary question; if his Department...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday, we saw the introduction of a budget, the need for which the Government did not want to recognise for a long time. It amounts to one of the biggest smash-and-grab raids on middle income families for years.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: This budget will puncture the confidence of thousands of Irish families and result in the demise of thousands of small retail businesses because the Government took the easy option. There is no reform of the HSE, no reform of FÃS, no jobs plan and no strategy to get people back to work. All we have is an indication that close to 500,000 people will be out of work next year. The Government...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: I asked the Taoiseach a straight question. How much does he propose to take from the taxpayer to bail out the banks for dealings on what amount to dodgy developer debts? Deputy English pointed out last night that the staff of the Office of the Financial Regulator, when they appeared before Oireachtas committees, said that the maximum amount involved was â¬40 billion, but when he asked the...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: I understand â¬30 billion was secured on lands and other assets put up by developers when they took this money in the first place. We were told certain things in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: We were told there was no run on Anglo Irish Bank, that there was no impropriety in the banks, and that the Government would deal with the matter of bonuses and so on. These things were untrue, as we now know, as there was a 25% run on Anglo Irish the week before the guarantee came through. I am entitled to ask this question on behalf of the Irish taxpayer. Yesterday, the Government took...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Government is lumping the debts on the backs of Irish taxpayers who were screwed down to the wall yesterday. Their confidence, already deflated, is now punctured completely. Will the Taoiseach tell us how much is involved in this?
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputy O'Donnell. There was no standing ovation for that contribution. The supplementary budget introduced has destroyed the hopes of thousands of families. I predict by the end of the next quarter thousands of small retail outlets will close. There is nothing in the budget to protect or to create jobs or to give a stimulus, hope or confidence or a feeling the...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: I hope that when the Government's team goes to New York it will be able to deal with that. We showed the Government last week how it could deliver massive savings by overhauling the budgetary process into which this State has been locked for many years. I asked a senior Minister yesterday how much he had lost out of his Department. He said that the problem in his Department was that he...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: It has not been tackled and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin, knows that.
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Government has not cut down. Where are the quangos that have been let go? Where is the removal of duplication and triplication? Why does somebody walk into my office with four brown envelopes from the social welfare office saying that he has filled them in during the last week, giving the same information to the same officer four days in a row after standing for two hours in a queue of...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Government has not listened to anyone in the Opposition. The civil servants in the Department of Finance continue to say this is how it has to be. No local authority can sign a contract of any size without approval from the Department of Finance. There are two muppet Ministers, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Minister for Defence, who must go to the Minister...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: It has done nothing to reform the public service, to cut out waste and inefficiency that applies on a large scale throughout the governance of the State. Public service reform does not only involve weeding out numbers. I respect the provisions such as early retirement that public servants may well take up. That must be judged on its merits to see how it works. Thousands of brilliant...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: When the regulator attended a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs last October, he said: "Speculative lending to construction and property development in Ireland amounts to â¬39.1 billion, of which â¬24 billion is supported by additional collateral or alternative sources of cashflow and realisable security." The evidence of the regulator to an...
- Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: That is correct.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: I have been following closely the questions tabled by Deputy Charles Flanagan in respect of the issuing of a road haulier's licence to a convicted drug trafficker. As the Taoiseach is aware, one of the fundamental issues is that the rule of law should apply to everybody and be seen to apply. In what circumstances was a road haulier's licence allocated to a convicted drug trafficker, thus...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: One of the things that is wrong in the House is that the Minister cannot comment on the matter. Everybody else is doing so. This appears to be a very strange case. The normal circumstances that apply are such that when one applies for a road haulier's licence to the Department of Transport, the Department asks the Garda for what is essentially a character reference. The applications are...
- Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department during February 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9661/09]