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Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is no point in me standing up in the Dáil and saying to the Irish people that this is going to be sorted out when we have treaty change.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: From past experience, treaty change takes so long to implement-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: We must deal with the crisis now. The first meeting of the Heads of State and Government-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----was put off last Sunday week. It was held on last Sunday. The second meeting will be held this evening because of the requirement of some leaders to go back to their parliaments, discuss the issue and get approval for it. I hope we can get this process moved to a point this evening where the leaders can make decisions that can deal with the matter comprehensively. Afterwards, we will...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Right.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not have the details on the position of St. Michael's House to hand. For the first time the delivery of mental health services is being made a central part of the delivery of health services in general. The Government has ring-fenced funding of €35 million under the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, for the delivery of those services. As Deputy Finian McGrath is...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: The details sought by the Deputy in respect of the two bodies she mentions are as follows. The Chief State Solicitor's Office has a whole-time staff equivalent of 230. The Office is part of the civil service and like other Departments and Offices is managed by a Management Advisory Committee, headed by the Chief State Solicitor. The Office is entirely funded by the Exchequer and has its own...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 84 together. The National Economic & Social Development Office NESDO is the only agency under the aegis of my Department. NESDO's staff are paid from my Department's vote.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: No State agencies, independent statutory bodies, State boards, or other quangos were established or abolished by my Department since February 2011.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), which includes the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), comes under the aegis of my Department. The total number of whole time equivalent staff is 19.2. There are currently 33 members on the NESC Council, which is chaired by the Secretary General of my Department. No remuneration is paid to persons in relation to their...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: My Department did not obtain legal advice from a firm of solicitors or from Senior or Junior Counsel, other than through the Office of the Attorney General, during the period in question. In 2006, the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), following a competitive tendering process for the provision of legal advice services, awarded the contract to Mason, Hayes and Curran....

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: My Department's payroll is administered by the Department of Justice and Equality's Financial Shared Services Centre. I understand that the Minister for Justice and Equality's reply to an identical question asked by the Deputy will include the information requested in relation to my Department.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: There are no commercial semi-State agencies under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Total expenditure by my Department in 2010 on ICT including staff costs, support and maintenance services, hardware, software, and external resources including consultancies, contractors and external service-providers was €1,329,279. The corresponding figure for the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), the only agency under the aegis of my Department was €178,811.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I want to assure Deputy Adams that this Government is focused on providing the best level of service that we can for patients and the best level of facilities for people who work in the health service. One of the most modern endoscopy units in the country is in Connolly Hospital.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: James Connolly would, I am quite sure, be delighted to know about that unit. The further expansion of the MRI facilities will come. The Deputy understands - he does not live in fantasy land either - that we do not have an endless, bottomless pit of money to provide all of these things now.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Remember this - we would not be in this situation but for bankers and the carry on of an incompetent Government. Be that as it may-----

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----Sinn Féin's Ministers in Northern Ireland do not appear to have any difficulty with imposing serious austerity in health and other areas right across the board.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: He talks about two different Irelands. We actually have two different Irelands. Sinn Féin is an all-island party, but it has a different view up North from the one it has down here. It does not seem to have any difficulty in agreeing to pretty serious cutbacks in Northern Ireland, but it hums and haws about everything that happens down here when the Government is in a bailout situation,...

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams talks about decisions in respect of advisers. I am not at all happy - how could I be? - about the numbers who are unemployed. That is why, through the Departments of Social Protection, Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Finance, we want to put a real emphasis on job opportunities, getting people off the dole and providing up-skilling and retraining opportunities for them so...