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Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is beneath him.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: When the Minister of State replied on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, she did not say that the matter did not come to light until the date mentioned by Deputy Higgins. The Deputy should be big enough to withdraw the scurrilous and scandalous remark he made about a hard-working and genuine Minister of State.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins is aware that fire certificates have to be signed. If there is a discrepancy, an uncertainty, a fault or something that is not correct, the person who signed the relevant fire certificate has to take responsibility. If Deputy Higgins is prepared to repeat his assertion about a cover-up by Dublin City Council outside the House, I am quite sure Dublin City Council will answer...

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I have said previously, the position is that this may well arise in a number of other locations. The Government is again having to clean up an unholy mess that has been landed on hard-working men and women who put down their money and signed their names to buy places they considered would be their homes for the rest of their lives. The unwarranted intrusion that is interfering with that...

Tributes to Staff Members (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I wish to pay tribute to two long-serving members of staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas who retire this week. Dick Caffrey retires after 40 years' service in the Civil Service, 34 of them spent here in this House, many of them spent sitting in the chairs in front of me. Noel Kelly retires after 30 years' service to these Houses. Both men have witnessed so many of the great changes and...

Tributes to Staff Members (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I wish to remember all the public servants who retire today from the public service.

Tributes to Staff Members (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: In general terms, quite a number are leaving the public service.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No.15, statements on the pre-European Council meeting of 1 and 2 March and ratification of the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union; and No.1, Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. 15 shall, if not...

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will have another opportunity for debate when the referendum Bill is published.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I said yesterday in reply to Deputy Martin, as soon as the Attorney General gave her formal legal advice to the Government, it was appropriate that the Dáil should be informed. The Government has not set out the specific time process for preparation of the referendum Bill and the process that needs to be gone through before the people can be asked a question. Yesterday, I confirmed to...

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy O'Mahony that this is a very serious question for the people about Ireland's future and their future and about keeping this country at the heart of the European process, so we can have confidence and opportunity for investment and job creation. That is where our future is and where we need to be. I can confirm to Deputy O'Mahony that this referendum will be held on its...

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I heard Deputy Broughan's remarks very clearly. There is no legislation promised in respect of an investigation into the activities of Dublin City Council. This is a matter which I am sure the councillors and representatives of the people will raise very adequately with the city council members and will follow through on what is a sensitive issue raised by Deputy Broughan yesterday and to...

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Healy-Rae that the Consumer and Competition Bill is due in mid-2012.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Single Market.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill and the criminal records information system Bill are due for publication later this year. The Minister for Justice and Equality has done quite a deal of work on the latter.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The child and family support agency Bill is due later this year. As Deputy Nulty is aware, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, has done a great deal of work on the whole area of child protection. We are anxious to get this right because it is so important. He will also be aware of the work done by the previous all-party Oireachtas committee and the great deal of...

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have good news for Deputy Ferris. I understand the Minister will publish those regulations this week.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I hope it will be accurate this time.

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy mean in respect of community employment schemes?

Order of Business (29 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Social Protection has made it perfectly clear in regard to community employment schemes and every other area that she has carried out an evaluation of the cost effectiveness of these and she will make her views known to the House. The Social Welfare and Pensions Bill is due this session.