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Benchmarking Awards. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: In the talks that will begin tomorrow with the social partners and trade union leaders does the Government intend to put on the table a plan for a more efficient public service? As everyone understands the system has strangled initiative in many ways and as the Taoiseach will meet union leaders tomorrow, does the Government have a plan to introduce or bring about a more effective and...

Benchmarking Awards. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: I will illustrate my next question with an anecdote. I was contacted recently by an employer who had applied to the Department of Social and Family Affairs for optical benefit for one of his employees. The employer was obliged to fill in an A4 page containing a series of questions that took approximately eight minutes to answer. It then was necessary to post the A4 page to the Department...

Benchmarking Awards. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: I was referring to the Department of Social and Family Affairs. My apologies for my mistake. Is the Taoiseach confident that in the discussions he is recommencing tomorrow with the trades union leaders he can arrive at a position where further industrial action will be averted? Does he, on behalf of the Government, have a plan that can convince the trades unions and the social partnership...

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the nature of the agreement between the Government and a Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30635/09]

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the nature of the agreement between the Government and a Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30636/09]

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements in place in his office for providing special assistance for certain Independent Members of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30637/09]

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is the sort of nonsense that goes on here. We are all into accountability and transparency and holding the Government to account, yet we are asked to believe in 2009 the sovereign Government of Ireland has a secret deal with a number of Independent Deputies. I would like the Taoiseach to clear this up once and for all. Is there an unpublished deal between the Government and Deputies...

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Therefore, none of them is more equal than others.

Agreements with Members. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: What about the other two Deputies?

Ministerial Appointments. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the responsibilities of the Ministers of State at his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30638/09]

Ministerial Appointments. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: Is it intended to change the Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Act 2007 to reduce the numbers of Ministers of State? The Taoiseach is aware that Deputy Shatter published a Private Members' Bill allowing for a reduction of numbers to 12. The Government has reduced the number to 15 but this does not restrict it in increasing it again to what it was. Is the current number...

Regional Authorities. (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, is overruled.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: The events of the past week in respect of weather conditions and the havoc wreaked on thousands of homes, lives, careers and opportunities have been unprecedented. While the Government is not responsible for the extent of the rainfall, it is responsible for the response to this calamity. As I understand from reports from the ESB, this is a once in 800 years event and water levels on the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: The indications are that weather conditions may well deteriorate again this evening. The Government has pumped hundreds of millions of euro into loans that did not perform and which have now ended up in a black hole. In this case, thousands of people who were prepared to put their money where their mouths were have had their lives destroyed. They followed their own initiative to follow a...

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: I object to the Order of Business. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Dáil sits until 9.50 p.m. and that we have a three-hour debate on the consequences of flooding, including 30 minutes of questions and answers with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Fine Gael will set aside its Private Member's time between 7 p.m. and 8.30 p.m., No. 43....

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: If we cannot do this, we will fail in our democratic duty to the thousands of people who are seeking a response and some degree of leadership from this House. They know, as we do, that on an occasion like this a Private Members' debate does not deal with the issue because the Minister will not answer questions in that debate.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: I would like to hear the advice the Minister gave to the Cabinet. I would like him to hear the views of all Deputies so that he is properly and fully informed of the situation when water and sewage have risen in house after house, town after town and city after city.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: We do not want to give the impression that the Government or the House do not care. I ask the Ceann Comhairle and the Government to accept my amendment as it in everybody's interest to do so. We should set aside the business planned and deal with the issue that has most relevance for people, even as the rain continues to pour from the sky as we speak.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have proposed an amendment to the Order of Business.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)

Enda Kenny: The amendment is in order because it proposes that the Dáil should sit longer than is proposed on the Order of Business. Private Members' business today is in the name of the Fine Gael Party. We are prepared to set that aside in the interest of a complete, thorough, full and open debate where the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government can answer questions in respect of...