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Regulatory Impact Assessments (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not know the up-to-date position on that merger, but I will check the details and respond to Deputy Adams on its status.

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 11, inclusive, together. The Economic Management Council has met 62 times since its establishment. The members have met 25 times so far this year, most recently on 12 July, and have met 12 times since the Easter recess. The Government has been working closely with the Irish banks to ensure that the banking sector supports economic recovery. The members...

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Economic Management Council has met with the banks on a number of occasions. On the last occasion we had a series of questions about SME credit, including how banks are ensuring that their targets will be met, whether they are taking practical initiatives to assist SMEs in obtaining credit, and whether they show a willingness to implement and support the Government's initiatives as set...

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: To answer the Deputy's first question on the Personal Insolvency Bill, I met with a number of representatives of Money Advice and Budgeting Service organisations around the country, which have been dealing with debt and distress arising from credit cards, car loans and other financial issues, as distinct from mortgages. If people wish to go down the road of personal insolvency under the...

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not too sure Deputy Boyd Barrett would recognise a happy day if he saw one. Does he think we live at one remove from ordinary people? Does he not think people walk in to the offices of members of Government parties to talk about their problems? Does he not think they express their concerns, anxiety and distress about the challenge they face every day in their lives? They do, and the...

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: They did not. I am sure that if Deputy Boyd Barrett sat down, as he knows most things, he could have devised a solution for the person he is talking about.

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Personal Insolvency Bill is one of the most complex items of legislation to come before the House in many years. Leaving aside the Bill, the fact that banks were recapitalised to the extent they were-----

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the fact that the Keane report produced recommendations on how to bring about a resolution for distressed mortgages and those in arrears and in difficulties, is the reason the lending institutions have an incentive to sit down with everyone and work out an individual solution for each case. There are those who have had solutions worked out where the house is not being taken from them,...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 13, Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 14, Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m., and Private Members' business, which shall be No. 28,...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I notice that the Deputy said in reference to the hospital he mentioned that "we" built it. That is what has been wrong in this place for so long, this notion that "we" build things.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The taxpayers pay their money and governments put a process in place to oversee the expenditure of those moneys. That does not allow us to claim ownership of the people's facilities.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The heads of the child and family support agency Bill were cleared by the Cabinet this morning and the Minister given approval to proceed. That legislation will be ready in the autumn. The HSE governance Bill was approved by Cabinet today for publication.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: There might be some Government amendments on Committee Stage, but the Bill is expected to be published tomorrow.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not up to date with the community nursing home in Thurles to which the Deputy referred. The Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill was published last Friday and is on its way into the Seanad.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Drafting of that Bill has commenced, but I do not have a date for its publication. The Minister will keep in touch with the Deputy as matters proceed.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: That legislation is still rumbling in the distance. I can see it but I cannot hear it. I will get back to the Deputy with a more accurate fix on it.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The specialist group established by the Government to consider this matter requested and was granted an extension of time. When it completes its deliberations in due course, that report will go to the Minister.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The request was for an extension until the end of September.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I assume the Deputy is referring to provisions regarding the separation of alcohol for sale in outlets. The Minister has his documentation ready in that regard. That 2,000 hospital beds throughout the State are taken up every night by people fuelled with drink is an appalling statistic. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Róisín Shortall, has been working on a range...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I saw many reports that this issue would be on the Cabinet agenda for today. It was never to be on the agenda for today. It will come back to the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy's next meeting, which will be devoted fully to this matter. We will include in that the recommendations of the Minister, Deputy Shatter, in regard to the sections of the 2008 Act. We will, in the most...