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Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The minerals development Bill and health insurance risk (equalisation) Bill will be published this session.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The question was answered already.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The answer is that I have already made an announcement in the House for the information of Deputies, including Deputy Kelleher, that Deputy Alex White has been nominated and approved by the Government as a Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for primary care.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Primary care is not contained in a particular statute because it crosses many areas of the Department so powers are not assigned in the normal way because the statutory remit is not that narrow.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: False anger, Deputy Martin.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The point raised by Deputy Buttimer is a serious one for those so concerned.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Finance are attempting to work out a solution in respect of which money has been made available.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Projects (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Transport is one of the areas of cooperation under the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) process. Regular meetings of the Transport Sectoral Council are held, where transport issues, including investment, are discussed. The next Transport Sectoral is due to take place on 5 October 2012. In relation to the A5 cross-border roads project, as the Deputy will be aware in 2006 the previous...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: My statutory functions in relation to the Central Statistics Office under the Statistics Act 1993, the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005 and the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 were delegated to the Government Chief Whip, Deputy Paul Kehoe, on 22 March 2011.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Allowances (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Details of the allowances paid to staff in my Department are set out in the table. Name/Description of Allowance  Amount of allowance Press Officers "on-call" allowance 5 hours overtime at double-time every week Private Secretary to the Taoiseach €24,427 per annum Private Secretary to Minister of State (including Private Secretary to Leader of the Seanad)...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Rehiring (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: John Malone, former Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, is the Chairman of my Department's Internal Audit Committee. He does not receive any salary or expenses for this role. He is the only retired senior civil servant appointed to any current position by my Department.

Address by H.E. Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament (4 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Ar son an Rialtais agus ar son mhuintir na hÉireann, ba mhaith liom fíor fáilte a chur roimh an Úactaráin Schulz as ucht an chuairt seo ar ár bParliamint anseo i Dáil Éireann. It is an honour and a pleasure to receive President Schulz in Dáil Éireann, our national Parliament. As all in this House will be well aware, Ireland will take up the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The first thing the Government had to do was to consider the number of banks and their dysfunctionality, and the situation with regard to lending policy and the distress people were experiencing with mortgages. The Government downsized the banks to two pillar banks, Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks, both of which are deemed to be banks for the future. Clearly the Government is not in...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the information of Deputy Martin, “actively aware” means that people walk in to my office and those of every other Government Deputy and Minister to make us fully aware of the difficulties and challenges they face in respect of their mortgages. “Interacting with the banks” means that when we have occasion to engage with banks through the Economic Management...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and their application to issues related to mortgages and mortgage distress. This was a commercial decision by a bank which the Government considers to be a pillar bank for the future, along with Bank of Ireland, and if it continues to charge an unsustainably low rate for variable-rate mortgages the impact will be that 2.1 million taxpayers are required to subsidise the bank even further...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----which the Government expects to return to profitability in due course so that it is a commercial bank which conducts its business in the manner one would expect with members of the public, mortgage holders and business people. The situation is not as the Deputy says. The Government is acutely aware of what is happening, but it is also important that the banks implement the series of...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá mé thar a bheith buíoch don Teachta gur fháiltigh sé roimh an ráiteas a cuireadh amach ar maidin i dtaobh na postanna nua atá le cur ar fáil ag an gcomhlucht Kerry Group, ceann des na comhluchtaí is fearr ar domhan atá ag déanamh infheistíochta de suas le €100 milliún anseo in Éireann. Beidh suas le 900 post nua...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá mé buíoch don Aire as ucht fáilte a chur roimh an ráiteas a chuireadh amach ag an comhlacht féin agus an cinneadh eacnamaíochta atá déanta ag an comhlacht. Dúirt sé freisin go raibh eolas agam féin agus ag an Tánaiste faoi plean maidir leis na hionaid sláinte. Tá a fhios ag an Teachta, mar tá seo ráite...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Ní cheist í sin ar chor ar bith, ach ráiteas. Thosaigh an Teachta as Gaeilge agus mar sin tabharfaidh mé an céad freagra arís dó as Gaeilge. Tá na coinníollacha léirithe ag an Aire Sláinte anseo agus é ag déileáil le Ceisteanna agus i ráitis atá curtha amach aige. Tá na coinníollacha breise a thug an...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is a matter, no more than any other, that will be properly considered by the Government collectively as part of its responsibility to bring forward a budget for 2013, which budget will be challenging in all respects. The matter of disability payments to under 18 year olds is the subject of a report that has not been concluded, that has not been presented to the Minister, that has not...