Results 19,161-19,180 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I have heard much speculation about this matter. The Government will make its decision on the property tax. It is a budgetary matter and will be mentioned on the day of the budget. The Thornhill report will be published subsequently and we will all have an opportunity to debate it comprehensively.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Anything the Deputy attributes to spokespersons or any other allegation is nothing more than that. The Government will make a decision and everybody will be perfectly clear on the matter.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The decision was that property tax would apply from July next year. The Revenue Commissioners were asked to put in place the mechanics for it to work. The Thornhill report will be published when the Government makes its decision.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy tables the last question as the subject of a Topical Issues debate, the Ceann Comhairle may allow it to be discussed, that being his responsibility. The Minister for Justice and Equality would be happy to respond to it. The pyrite issue is of extreme concern to those who live in the houses in question. We have been raising the issue for many years. I can confirm that there...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is serious about what he said and I do not expect that he will extend the deadline which I expect will be adhered to. The Minister and his Minister of State are focusing on the matter. The Estimates will be published in advance of the budget. I will ask the Minister for Finance and his Department to confirm to the Deputy when they expect to publish them. I imagine it will be...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: No decision has been made about the budget for 2013. The Government will decide the matter in due course. Last year I wrote to the regulator on behalf of the Government about the banks. I made it perfectly clear that if the regulator required further powers or authority, the Government would be willing to grant them. The regulator responded to the effect that he did not consider it...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: An extension of time was sought by and granted to the group responsible for compiling the report. The Minister has not yet received the report.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Next year.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine raised this matter at a Council meeting in Luxembourg yesterday. As the Deputy is aware, he and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government have already approved an extension in respect of slurry spreading.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is an issue of which the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine will take account. In recent days I met members of the IFA in Paris at the SIAL food exhibition - one of the largest events of its kind in the world. This matter was also raised at the exhibition. I have passed the information on this matter to the two Departments involved.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Bill relating to GP funding is due to be published this session.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is a major report and I commend the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, for bringing it forward. There will be a debate on the report which contains a range of matters with which the Government will be obliged to deal. This area is a maze of confusion for thousands. Successive Governments have stated the administrative charges applied by pension funds are excessive....
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: It will be published this session.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am pleased to brief the House on the outcome of last week's European Council meeting in Brussels on 18 and 19 October. I am happy to report that the outcome of the meeting was very positive from both an Irish and a European perspective. At the insistence of a number of member states, including Ireland, we explicitly reaffirmed the commitment we had made in June to break the link between...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: About Spain.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: For the Deputy's information-----
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The maximum amount.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: You panicked.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Last week you did.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Read your speech of last week.