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Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Is it? It was made clear at the time that it would require no capital funding and that it had the support of financial and academic experts. So what is the status of the centre for financial services skills and where is it located? Who heads up this operation?

Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Quinn. The current Taoiseach established the financial legislation advisory forum in May 2007 when he was Minister for Finance. Its remit was to consolidate and modernise legislation governing financial regulation. The forum's primary objective is to provide expert advice and support. The Bill was to have been published within two years of the establishment of the forum....

Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The clearing house group has another function in respect of the document published by the Government a year ago, Building Ireland's Smart Economy, which has implications for the long-term development of the international financial services industry. I understand that the clearing house group has met five times this year. Will the Taoiseach say what advances or decisions have been made in...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am truly appalled by the contents of the Murphy report which was published last week. Arising from that report, does the Taoiseach consider it appropriate that persons in authority in the Catholic Church, who knowingly moved paedophile priests from parish to parish should continue to be in positions of authority either in the church or in State-funded institutions?

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am a member of the Catholic Church and note that, in recent days, devout Catholics who have followed the teachings of their church faithfully over very many years are appalled by this position. They want their church to be a church of the future with a future. The symbolism of change is very important. The Archbishop of Dublin said in his pastoral letter on Sunday that child abuse was and...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Good.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: On the Order of Business, I was going to ask the Taoiseach, first, if he has any information about the person inside the Fianna Fáil Party who tried to screw-up his predecessor. I noted on Sunday he was very concerned that somebody in the party deliberately tried to screw him up, and he knows who it is.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Somebody in the party, maybe------

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Was he not?

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: So there is no need for a commission of inquiry.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I sent the Taoiseach a note some weeks ago about the Committee of the Regions, which is a European institution. Prior to the last local elections, the position of his party was much stronger in terms of local government representation than it is now. The committee, as he will be aware, has nine representatives and nine alternates, and it is supposed to reflect the relative strengths of the...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: He will think about it.

Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I speak on the Murphy report as a citizen, a husband, a father and a Catholic. It is with a degree of pain that I will say what I have to about the conduct of the church of which I am a member. When someone reasonably famous dies, the easy comment to make on their passing is that it marks the end of an era. The publication of the Murphy report does too. It marks the end of an era of trust...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (1 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 17 November 2009, the interim arrangements for the provision of Garda station facilities at a premises in Ballyvary, Castlebar, County Mayo; the scale and cost of the provision of these facilities; and when same will be available to gardaí and the public. [44441/09]

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: In recent months members of the Government, including the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, have travelled around the country and abroad, and have made perfectly plain that it is the Government's intention to take out €1.3 billion from the public sector pay bill without compromising services. Is the Taoiseach still committed to taking out €1.3 billion from the public service pay...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: It seems as if the Government has abdicated its responsibility to sort out the economic mess into which it has led us. It is not possible to get permanent savings by having a further 12 days' holidays. It is not possible to give the same level of service with 5% less man-hours. The detail available to Opposition parties, such as it is, leads me to believe that what the Taoiseach is talking...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach stated we would get more with less and he will give us less with less.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: A logistical shambles.

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the remit of the social policy unit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35604/09]