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Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Taoiseach that changes were introduced in some areas. Revenue is one such example and that is both significant and welcome. He referred to the Department of Education and Skills. Last week, we saw evidence that €300 million set aside for building schools was not being spent by that Department. What sort of benchmarking progress was made in that instance? Now we hear...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: It relates to benchmarking. Surely the process or system in the Department of Education and Skills could have been streamlined in the last eight years to allow money voted through this House for capital works that are necessary for thousands of school places, and for children and their teachers, to be implemented. We should not be hanging on, halfway through November, because €300 million...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: They are good schemes.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I accept that.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: We are on Question No. 1.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will put his question for him.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30246/10]

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Electoral (Amendment) Bill proposes to put in place legal mechanisms to restrict donations to political parties. The representative of the Green Party seated beside the Taoiseach said that it was promised that this Bill would be brought before the House this session. I note from the legislative agenda that the heads of the Bill have yet to be approved by the Government. Is it expected...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Department of Education and Science, a matter to which Deputy Ó Caoláin referred and to which he may return, the Green Party stated that the junior partners in the coalition were determined to maintain support for primary education and to prevent cuts in school capitation. In its revised programme for Government, agreed just over a year ago, the Government committed...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Can I take it from what the Taoiseach has said that the solemn commitment in the programme for Government is no longer valid? If the Taoiseach says that at the Cabinet table there will be a stress on the priorities that were to be made here in the context of the programme for Government, there were two clear facts in that respect. One was that there was to be no further increase in the...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's own facts have always stood up about turning the corner-----

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: ------and how there would be walls of cash.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The only time the country will turn a corner is when the Taoiseach turns into Áras an Uachtaráin.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is in the programme for Government.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I read the programme for Government and it states there will be no further increases in the pupil-teacher ratio.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Unlike the Taoiseach, I read the Lisbon treaty.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: In that case, the matter is only under discussion.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: This country has never been in the position in which it now finds itself. Of the many storms approaching the country, the one that is sure to hit is the issue of mortgage arrears and distressed mortgage holders. At the end of June, the figure for serious arrears was approximately 37,000. One year ago, the Fine Gael Party warned of this impending storm and yesterday the economist, Morgan...

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The measures mentioned by the Taoiseach give scant relief to those who are facing personal and family crises. I accept that they have given relief to people in some cases. His predecessor had to apologise for suggesting that those who complained about the housing market should commit suicide. In November 2007, the Taoiseach told the annual dinner of the financial services industry that...

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: What about the social housing recommendation?