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Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: On 29 October-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----2009 the European Court of Justice ruled against this country. This has been going on since then without any action being taken. The Minister set out clearly what it is that he intends to do. Someone who registers in the first three months does so for €5 and inspections do not start until 2013. The inspections are not universal in the way that applied under the Fianna Fáil...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the treatment of grey water, as it is called, whereby phosphates in washing detergent going into the system affect the working mechanism of a septic tank, and the issue of pipes leading to manholes.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Mattie McGrath knows all about that.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Even Deputy Mattie McGrath will understand that old-style septic tanks would overflow if they get filled.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is also a requirement to keep down the level of unnecessary liquid and sediment going into the tank in the first place. The Minister set out the structure. There are no inspections until 2013. I would encourage everyone to avail of the common sense offer of a registration for €5 in the three month period.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Far from the evidence of the hysterical ranting of Deputy Mattie McGrath and Deputy Ó Cuív, this is a common sense approach-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----to a problem we have had for a long time in this country but have done nothing about. Deputy Martin's party put forward the view that we could get a derogation to allow us to cut turf all over the place for ten years, which was never the case.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is the kind of nonsense which prevailed for good Government and good governance in this country. In this case the Minister, Deputy Hogan, set it out clearly and reasonably. People in the countryside know that they want to contribute to having clean water-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and this will be done at a normal cost.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I assure Deputy Dooley that if the system is not working-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the answer is that under this requirement the owner of the septic tank will have to desludge it. That means they will have to get it pumped out and treated properly in a local authority works.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government has set out its plan for the development and introduction of a universal health insurance system which will apply at the end of the Government's term of office. The Minister will publish a White Paper and there will be detailed consultations. The end result will be a better health system for everyone based on the need of the patient as distinct from his or her income. That is...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware that 1,433 staff left the health service in 2011. Transition teams are not going to turn up in Beaumont Hospital or any other hospital in the middle of the night and do what he suggests. There are local managers in each hospital who know who will leave the service by the end of the month and they will make arrangements with the HSE, working with staff and the unions, to...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: As a frequent visitor to observe what happens there, I am sure the Deputy is well aware that many of the patients do not need to go to an accident and emergency department with minor ailments in the first place and could be treated in a primary care centre, the provision of which we support strongly.

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. Details of the appointments I have made since coming into office on 9 March 2011 are set out in a table I am circulating in the Official Report. The National Economic and Social Development Office, NESDO, is the only State agency under the aegis of the Taoiseach's Department. It was established in 2006 and is the body corporate...

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am very conscious of the requirement to maintain a gender balance and I try to meet it in the strongest way possible. I am glad to say a number of very competent and influential persons have been appointed across a range of boards. In so far as the question relates to my office, many of the appointees, as the Deputy is aware, are nominees of organisations. They are not solely from the...

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Appointments to State Boards (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I will update the Deputy on the position.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public and Expenditure and Reform this morning gave a very clear outline of the position we are moving into. There are 300,000 persons employed in the public sector; 3% of these are leaving and 97% will remain in situ. Clearly, the flexibility that is inherent in the Croke Park agreement will now be put to the test. The Government has no intention of allowing a situation...