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- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: In the assessment of home help hours-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----it may well be that the provider is calling to the house in the morning to get that person up and to get that person bathed, dressed and ready for the day. Is that the service that is being provided?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy knows all of the details-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----I invite him to send them to me. We will check that case with the HSE and he can return to it next week.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: About 20% of the population over 65 - that is 100,000 people - receive a home help service and home care from one or other of the range of options that are there. It is not unusual for Deputy McDonald to attempt to compete for populism with the Technical Group. She is at it again this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: The chief executive of AIB has written a letter to a number of former employees of Allied Irish Banks, not based on their salaries, but based on their responsibilities, in regard to the pensions they receive. I am glad to note that the former chief executive, Mr. Sheehy, has made a personal decision in regard to the level of pension that he intends to draw. These persons - I answered this...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy represents a party which for a long time did not recognise the Constitution, the State or the laws of this land. One of the laws of the land, which is still in operation, is the law regarding what pension rights actually constitute. This Government did not draw up, or allow to be drawn up, the contractual arrangements and obligations for extraordinarily high pensions for a small...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Government, through the Department of Social Protection, funds approximately 30% of the private rented sector. Currently, it is costing €430 million per annum. Deputy Pringle is well aware that it was necessary to put in some limits in respect of the rents being charged by landlords. The relationship between the Department is with the tenant and not the landlord, so a tenant...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: For somebody who is able to go to the High Court and the European Court of Justice and who still has not paid his household charge-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----it is a bit Irish.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: Let me invite Deputy Pringle-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: Maybe Deputy Pringle has put his finger on a button because he said many of these tenants are paying under-the-counter payments to landlords. Does he expect the State, through the Department of Social Protection, to continue to fund landlords whose tenants are expected to pay under-the-counter payments? If he has evidence of under-the-counter payments, I would advise him to bring it into...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----because the scheme provides that when the tenant applies for accommodation and rent supplement, he or she does so against these maximum limits which have been set. Where rent comes up for review or reassessment, it is against these limits that it is reassessed. Deputy Pringle has told us he has evidence of people who are being forced to pay under-the-counter payments to landlords. The...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 16a, motion re membership of committee; No. 16b, Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 Seanad - financial resolution; and No. 21, Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 - Report and Final Stages (resumed). It is proposed,notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; Nos. 16a and 16b...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: I agree that the media are critical in how they present the issues of the day. Objectivity, clarity and truth are very important. However, I see many stories being spun in particular ways and I have no control over that. This matter is obviously important for every person in the country. The Consumer and Competition Bill will be published in this session-----
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: That is an element of the Bill that the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, will pilot through the House. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources also has a role in respect of the Bill.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has already met with the Adoption Rights Alliance and other associations, and is in active discussions with them. The Adoption (Tracing and Information) Bill will be published early in the new year. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, is working actively on the issue of transparency in the courts, which has been raised by...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: We could have used the €3 billion for the promissory note each year for the next ten years for many things too. The Deputy asked about strong rumours. I have no interest in rumours or speculation. That is a matter for Government decision, and the Government will make that decision in time for the budget in December. Anything else the Deputy hears is merely speculation or rumour, be...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister and the Government set up an expert group to deal with the judgment in the A, B and C cases. That report has to be presented to the Minister for Health. When the Minister considers the report he will bring it to the Government and there will be an opportunity for a debate. The remit of the expert group was to present a range of options arising from the judgment in the A, B and...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: Yes.