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Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: These are the people who have no voice with no one to speak for them except for the few who do in here. Tomorrow, the Government will have an opportunity to vote on this motion. The Taoiseach must reverse these cuts. There is another way he can find €108 million in cuts and not take €8.30 a week off carers, the disabled and the blind. If he does it before Christmas, everyone will say...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The figure in this case is just €108 million.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have here the calendar of Dáil sessions for 2009-10. Before we get into this Order of Business, I ask the Taoiseach to confirm that the rumours I hear that the Dáil is not due back until 19 January are untrue and that, in accordance with this circulated calendar of sessions, the Dáil will return here on 13 January.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Has the Taoiseach considered the implications of the report published by the Ombudsman in respect of the lost at sea scheme? As he will be aware, that scheme was introduced by the former Minister, Deputy Frank Fahey. The report states, in the words of the Ombudsman, that the case is unusual in that it embraces both the actions of a Minister and his officials. The Taoiseach will be aware of...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of operations cancelled at a hospital (details supplied) between the 23 November 2009 and 7 December 2009; the reason they were cancelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46976/09]

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is the last opportunity we will have to ask questions to the Leader until the Dáil resumes after the recess. Yesterday I raised the matter of welfare cuts being applied to the blind, carers and the disabled. The total saving is €108 million. The Taoiseach responded by stating expenditure on social welfare was more than €20 billion and that it was necessary to reduce expenditure...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I find it somewhat amusing that the Taoiseach should contend I am suggesting one could sustain a social welfare budget of €22 billion. I made no such contention.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: It is a question of choice for the Taoiseach and I contend he made the wrong choice. The way one should attack the welfare issue first is to stimulate employment so that many of the 427,000 people on the live register will be taken off it and return to work. Thus, we will be able to trade our way out of difficulty. The Taoiseach did not adopt this approach in his budget. I have chosen...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: That is a choice the Taoiseach made based on a recommendation received by him from the McCarthy report. He is looking for savings of €108 million out of a budget of €22 billion. He could protect the blind, the disabled and the carers at this time of the year, a time when we are celebrating the Christian ethos we are supposed to have. There have been no cuts to the administrative budgets...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: We will call to the Ceann Comhairle's Office.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent British-Irish Council meeting in Wales in November 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42562/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he held on the margins of the British-Irish Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42563/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45386/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister in London on 30 November 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45387/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach have any evidence that the theft of a number of ATM machines on this side of the Border is orchestrated by dissident republicans? There would appear to be strong indications that such may well be the case. Does he have any indication of that? Has any ongoing evidence been given to him in terms of security about the rise in the number of recruitments to dissident...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I wish the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin, well in the discussions taking place at present. Is the Taoiseach hopeful, having discussed this with the British Prime Minister, that the devolution issue can be completed and that the matters of justice and policing can be devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly? He visited Northern Ireland in...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I will not make a speech about this matter. Fine Gael has been consistent in objecting to the guillotining of Bills going through the House. I had hoped the Government would relent in respect of No. 96. It still could secure much goodwill by choosing a different option in respect of Private Members' time. However, I agree with Deputies Gilmore and Ó Caoláin in respect of guillotining...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Long ago.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have made this point before. When I first came to the House as a young Deputy many years ago, Major Vivion de Valera used to object to this every year. He used to ask how the Government of the day could put through all the Estimates with a rubber stamp. The Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, will remember that from the records.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: While he was not a regular contributor-----