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- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the adoption (tracing and information) Bill, the Minister is considering the matter and has given a timeline for the legislation. The Bill is clearly related to the adoption legislation that will be an important element of the preparations for the referendum on children's rights. In all probability, the Bill will be taken next year, although I cannot confirm this. I will...
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, will respond to the Deputy on the matter he raises. The Construction Contracts Bill is awaiting Committee Stage and we will see to it that the Whips have it taken as quickly as possible.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has never been afraid to meet farmers.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: He did not walk over them on the footpath, as happened in previous years.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has arranged, at his request, four public meetings with farmers, one in each province in the next ten days, to discuss CAP reform, the protection of the budget and single farm payment scheme and other matters.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy Shane McEntee, met representatives of the farming organisations today. The Deputy should not engage in this kind of palaver.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The farmers themselves were very happy to hear of the Kerry Group's announcement today of a €100 million investment in the added value for food production.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Bannon for confirming the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine will attend a public meeting in Longford on farming.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Good and noble counties like Longford and Westmeath deserve a public meeting in that regard. The environmental liability Bill is not due until next year.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: That Bill will be taken early next year. I know Deputy Lowry is a man interested in horses and has an old nag running well.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Implementation (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The current status of the commitments in the Programme for Government assigned to my Department are set out in the accompanying Table. Last March, the Tánaiste and I launched the Programme for Government Annual Progress Report 2012 setting out the Government’s work and achievements in its first year in office. There has been good progress to date. The Department of the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Procurement Contracts Tenders (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The aim of the Blue Star programme is to foster better understanding and knowledge among primary school children of the EU and how the EU affects our lives. An invitation to tender for the role of National Coordinator for the programme was published on the eTenders Public Procurement website on 12 October 2011. Details are available here - . Five proposals were received, four from NGOs...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Government has been working closely with the Irish banks to ensure that the banking sector supports economic recovery. As part of this ongoing process the members of the Economic Management Council last met with the banks on 26th June. I expect that members of the Council will meet with the banks again later in the year.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Numbers (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: There is currently a whole-time equivalent of 27.4 permanent staff in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) to draft legislation. Following a recruitment competition, one further staff member is scheduled to join the Office at end-October – bringing the total number of permanent staff in the OPC to 28.4. The permanent staff complement is augmented as necessary by drafters...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin has raised a number of issues. It ill behoves him to come into the House as somebody who served in the Department of Health-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: We are not going to hide behind the wreckage the Deputy's party left behind. We will not hide behind the litany of failures he epitomised in that Department or the litany of consultants' reports he commissioned and did nothing about. The Government was appointed and elected to serve the country. The HSE was a completely dysfunctional organisation. Squashing the health boards together and...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: What is happening is the start of a generational reform of the health system.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Nobody ever said the system would be transformed in the space of 12 months. We understand it is a major undertaking, affecting people all over the country. I listened this morning to the financial director of Tallaght hospital as she set out very clearly an example of what could actually happen here. This is a hospital which had an extraordinary overrrun in its budget but has managed the...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's first question is "Yes." I have already made it perfectly clear to the Deputy and other Deputies that there will be an open debate on the financial circumstances the country faces.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: All the Deputy wants, week after week, is to have individual Ministers in the House making statements.