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- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is an important element and phase in the development of credit unions, which are so important for everyone. They are fundamental to the economic life of the country. Some, admittedly, have serious financial difficulties. The Bill will be published in this session. It is an important Bill and has a bearing on hundreds of thousands of small savers who are loyal to their credit unions....
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I would leave it to the Minister. I chose to announce to the Dáil yesterday that the Government had decided on the wording of the amendment and that the referendum date would be 10 November. I did that out of courtesy. I intend to continue to make announcements of that nature here.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: That will happen inside a relatively short time. The Dolphin report has been given to the Minister for Health. The report does not set out a list of categorised locations. It sets out Dr. Dolphin's views on a number of locations. The Minister must come to Government with a recommendation arising from the Dolphin report. The Government will then make a decision on what will be one of the...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am not in control of the Chair but I might suggest that if the Deputy submits a request for a Topical Issue debate, the Ceann Comhairle might consider it so the Deputy could get a direct response from the Minister.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is still considering the Private Members' Bill the Deputy introduced and I will ask him to update the Deputy on the issue.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for publication of that Bill.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I wish the Deputy the best for Sunday.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: We will see. The property tax has been put on the legislative list by Government. The Thornhill report has been with the Minister for some time. He will come to Cabinet with his recommendations and the Cabinet will then make a decision. The tax will apply from 1 July 2013 and people will contribute on the basis of a half yearly charge from 1 July 2013. The decision was taken to transfer...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance has already outlined that it will be introduced on budget day so it will be towards the end of the session.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is a massive project so the Bill is some time away. The committee dealing with social policy will look at the issues that have been prepared by the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in respect of alcohol. That meeting will take place in a couple of weeks but the Bill is some time away. We will keep the Deputy informed.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The public health (tobacco) Bill is an idea the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs wants to promote at a European level but it is some distance away. The heads of the landlord and tenant Bill the Deputy mentioned were cleared last October and work is ongoing on the Bill. It will be the end of the year or next year before it is published.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is referring to the criminal law (human trafficking) Bill. The heads of that Bill have not been cleared at Cabinet yet, it has not been discussed. It is some time away because it is not on the current priority list because of the pressure for legislation. We will keep the Deputy updated as work continues on it.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: In law since 1983, where a charge is due from a person in a specific instance, the local authority is empowered to withhold another payment in respect of that if it wishes. Local authorities, however, are not entitled to withhold an element of the third level grant. What Clare County Council did was acquire information as part of processing the application form for a third level grant as to...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: A lot of these questions are asked routinely about the non-principal private residence charge, water charges, commercial rates and so on.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: On 9 March 2011, I nominated Dr. James Reilly as Minister for Health. I did so, not because he has decades of experience as a GP or because he developed a radical policy to create a patient-centred health system, but because he has a passionate commitment to creating a health service that puts the patient first. The Government received a mandate from the people to create a universal,...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Primary care development is a fundamental part of the strategy to reform the health sector. Clearly, primary care centres have enormous capacity to take people in, rather than having them go to accident and emergency units in the first place. Given the range of facilities that can, should and will be provided in primary care centres, they are important. There were broader criteria used...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Of all the Ministers in this or any Government, Deputy Reilly has taken on the unenviable task of sorting out the wreckage left by his predecessors.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The criteria used, for the information of Deputy Martin, were the deprivation index for the catchment population of the centre and the service priority identified by each integrated service area and local health office.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: An accommodation assessment, which reviewed accommodation available from the primary care team within catchment areas, was carried out by the HSE.