Results 21,101-21,120 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has said that given the reduction in the training grants, concerns have been expressed about the demise of community employment schemes. They are important in urban and rural settings, as the Deputy is well aware. The Minister has said that on a case-by-case basis, if there are requests for further funding once accounts have been submitted and assessed they will be considered...
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do not expect it would.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the Deputy in respect of the first and last Bills. The Deputy has a record of inquiring about legislation. Discussions are ongoing between the CAB and the Department. The heads of the Bill have not come to Government but consultation is well advanced.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The reason for that is that people were not happy with the guillotine and were looking for more time. Committee Stage will be taken tomorrow and Report Stage will be dealt with in the new year.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The question concerned when Report Stage would be taken. The reason it has been delayed is because the Deputy was unhappy with the guillotine.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is unhappy all the time. I have not seen him smile since his old adversary was here before me and he was playing handball against a haystack. Does he remember that? He went out of here minus his socialist jacket one day.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for that observation. I am sure the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government would be happy to hear the details of the loophole. I can confirm that the heads of the Bill have not yet gone before Government but that does not mean the issue should not be dealt with. It will be the first half of next year before the Bill is published.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: We all agree ECB interest rate reductions should be passed on by the banks. We made that crystal clear to the banks when they attended a meeting in November on this issue. It must be borne in mind the Government has just a 15% stake in Bank of Ireland. Ulster Bank made its position clear in so far as the number of mortgages it has here are concerned. Nonetheless, there was a full and a...
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: In its culture.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy that the decisions taken in the budget are the collective responsibility of the Cabinet. The economic management council is not the Cabinet. The Deputy will be aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced a comprehensive expenditure review across all Departments very early on in the summer with Ministers to respond to him by the end of...
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: People may read into anybody's comments what they like.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The position is that the reductions in any individual Department are all collectively accepted by the Government and there is no Department that did not have reductions applied to them in some area.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has moved to the right hand wing of the Chamber instead of the left hand wing.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's first question is that the economic management council is not a Stalinist politburo.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I am glad to see the Deputy on that side of the Chamber than over here for whatever reason he has changed. I do not know whether he cannot stick the heat over there.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The horsemen Deputy Higgins spoke of are as mythical as the battle of Moytura.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: The economic management council, as I said in reply to Deputy Martin, is not the Cabinet but it is entitled, as a committee, to meet the chief executive officers of the banks, either collectively or individually, because it is in the interest of the consumer that the council should make Government policy clearly and plainly known to people in those positions and it has done so. For instance,...
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: It is not any kind of Stalinist organisation. It is a case of being able to streamline a range of issues before they get to Cabinet.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: We are not sitting around for hours on end doing nothing. One puts one's agenda there and issues that can be dealt with and that can be, at least, focused on can then come to Cabinet for decision in a professional and competent way.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the details of that. I am sure the representatives of the workers in the EBS will be taking up their case with the management. It is an issue the Deputy could raise as an item of topical interest in the House if the Ceann Comhairle were to allow it.