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- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: The State pension is the safety net on which people can rely if an employer fails to meet its private pension promise. Deputy Martin referred specifically to Aer Lingus. The Aer Lingus pension scheme has a deficit of â¬500 million. The 0.6% levy was not the cause of that. The State's job is to regulate so that the employers live up to their promise to their employees in respect of...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: This is a serious matter for thousands of people.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I have met many pensioners. One of the fundamental issues that will be addressed in the initiative by the Minister, Deputy Burton, is a comprehensive assessment of the scale of what has gone wrong. We know it is in the region of â¬10 billion to â¬15 billion but, as was pointed out previously, the pension schemes are able to absorb a substantial proportion of the 0.6% levy.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: It is nonsense to suggest otherwise when last night's programme clearly indicated the extent of excessive charging. As I noted in my previous reply, the smallest transaction charge can have a serious impact over the lifetime of a pension.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: That is the arrangement they entered into.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: We need to speak further about this matter when a better opportunity presents. My first thought is for the families who lost children. No words of mine can deal adequately with their sense of loss. I do not think the words of anybody else here could do so either. The second point I would like to make is that today the HSE is publishing a series of reports. The National Review Panel for...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I reject completely the charge that the State and the Government I lead do not have the care, safety and comfort of children as a priority. For the first time since the foundation of the State, a senior Department of Children and Youth Affairs has been founded. It took time to extract all the relevant connections dealing with children in order that they could be put into that Department.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: We cannot legislate for human nature. In so far as is humanly possible, the State will do what it can to put in place legislation and facilities to ensure this will not happen again. There have been eight deaths since March. There have been two cot deaths due to natural causes. There have been three suicides, the cause of one of which is as yet uncertain. There has been one death as a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I know the area he is talking about.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I have matrimonial connections in Clontarf. I understand there may have been up to 10,000 people at the event on Sunday. I do not like the sea to be blocked off anywhere. The people of Ireland,a maritime country, like to be able to see the sea.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: It is of particular importance to residents along the road that the view they have had for a long time should not be taken away from them. The problem for those of us who have been elected to this House is that permission has been granted for the construction of a barrier of the scale in question. It will be almost 3 m high. I am not sure how that slipped by all the vigilant councillors on...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: He did.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do not want to pass the buck as I know it is an important issue. I take the points made by the Deputy. The point on the re-enactment of the Battle of Clontarf is realistic - we do not want Brudair to take out poor old Brian Boru again on this occasion. In response to concerns by residents and businesspeople in recent weeks, Dublin City Council made a presentation at a special meeting of...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: We do not want to see that on the Clontarf Road or anywhere else in this city. We realise that something needs to be done but perhaps not on the scale envisaged. If Dublin City Council, with its consultants, in talking to local businesspeople and residents decides to send in an alternative compromise to the OPW, the OPW is willing to consider that.
- Departmental Offices (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I am advised by the Attorney General that there are currently 27 permanent and three contract staff in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel engaged in drafting legislation. I am sure the Deputy is aware that there is a large increase in the demand for legislation arising from the current Government legislation programme, including the significant work required on sensitive and urgent...
- Departmental Offices (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: To be totally honest, I would prefer to have extra staff in the parliamentary draftsman section. The Deputy will be aware that in recent years, the average production from the section has been approximately 40 Bills per year, as it has produced approximately 40 Bills in each of the last three years. The A list of the current Government legislation programme gives a commitment to publish 30...
- Departmental Offices (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do. The contract drafters would be expert drafters, who would be given shorter-term contracts of approximately one year to assist with really complex issues in respect of legislation being drafted. The longer-term proposal is to have two further permanent drafters. I might add that the business case also includes an application for two legislative editor positions. A legislative editor...
- Departmental Offices (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's first question is "No". Bills have been produced on time or very close to time, some of which have been quite extensive while others have been extremely complex. As I stated, the House owes great credit to the Attorney General and her staff for working weekend after weekend on Saturdays and Sundays to meet the conditions of timelined legislation that has been...
- Interdepartmental Committees (18 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, together. My advisers are not prevented from attending meetings of any interdepartmental groups. My special advisers may attend Cabinet committee meetings in an advisory capacity when required to do so and with my prior approval. Attendance by special advisers is kept to the minimum consistent with the efficient functioning of the...
- EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)
Enda Kenny: That is rubbish. We want to use the decision the people made when they had their say already - to use the tools we have.