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- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will ask the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, to give Deputy Ryan an update on that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I met the party leaders back in September with a view to hearing their views on the issues of public concern that require further investigation in respect of NAMA's sale of Project Eagle. Subsequent to the meeting I received several submissions from party leaders on the matter. I met the party leaders again on 4 October last year. It was agreed in principle to establish a commission of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am glad Deputy McGrath referred to one of the finest sons of Castleblayney. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, to give the Deputy the up-to-date detail without singing "Four Roads to Glenamaddy".
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will have to get back to Deputy Gino Kenny with an update on the review. I am not aware of the particular schedule set out by the Minister but I will advise the Deputy on it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Department of Health has commenced examination of options to bring a greater consistency, nationally, to the regulation and financing of home care, which is a very important and sensitive issue, as the Deputy noted. It is considered that the best option for the future might well be a statutory home care scheme but not to have regulations and rulings governing the informal care given by...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: Níl sé in áit faoi láthair. Tá obair ar siúl sa Roinn faoin aonad. Cuirfidh mé scéal chuig an Teachta faoin obair atá déanta ag an bpointe seo. Tá a fhios aici gur nochtaíodh agus gur foilsíodh polasaí i leith oideachas sna scoileanna Ghaeltachta - an chéad pholasaí den tsórt sin ó bunaíodh an...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is being very hard. It is not a rehash.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: For the first time ever, which was a demand made by Deputy Adams and others, the first senior Minister for rural affairs, Deputy Heather Humphreys, is here beside me.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: She has drawn together all the programmes and proposals to be monitored, implemented and published on a quarterly basis.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams will appreciate that as we work towards a post-Brexit situation, we need to be able to have a vision for rural Ireland, including the many small towns and villages throughout the country.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: All over the country this is now under the aegis and monitoring direction of the Minister with responsibility for rural regeneration, so it is not just a rehash. I expect that every community will take that programme in all forms to see what is best suited to their area. Many Ministers will have responsibility for implementing elements of this but the new item, on foot of the demand made...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: This one has been around, as one of a number, for quite some time. The Government has not made a decision as to whether any referendums should be held this year. The Government will consider that. Arising from the Constitutional Convention reports, there were quite a number of decisions agreed by the Government that should be held as referenda. The Citizens' Assembly is sitting now and...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will recall that we had question after question in this Chamber for a long period about Priory Hall, with court cases and one thing and another. This was eventually sorted when the Government took action with the other agencies, the same as applied in respect of the defects in Longboat Quay and others. Obviously, things have changed and engineers are required to sign off on...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: The INMO continues to press for implementation of a range of measures to incentivise nursing recruitment and retention against the background of a 90% ballot in favour of industrial action if progress is not made. I assure Deputy Micheál Martin, the House and the public that all efforts are being made to reach an agreement with the INMO and SIPTU. They adjourned last night under the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for her question. We had this before with Priory Hall and Longboat Quay, and now we have it in this instance. The solution is one that was never implemented in the first place. When planning permissions are issued by local authorities for major developments such as these, it is very simple to have a clerk of works appointed to supervise the job and, where greed arises or...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I agree that it is a vital national company. I commend the drivers and the workers for the service they have provided on a daily basis over the years. As I pointed out, more than 23 million members of the travelling public used Bus Éireann in 2015. The increase in the public service obligation, PSO, for 2017 is 11% across PSO services generally. The Deputy knows as well as I do...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: Nobody wants to see this vital commercial company have to withdraw or for it to get into serious difficulties. The way that this can be sorted out is by using the Labour Court so the management and the unions can sit down, discuss their differences and hopefully come to a conclusion in everybody's interest. The central issue is the Expressway service which is losing money commercially and...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----but that does not impact at the moment on the Expressway services which go through sections of rural Ireland. We had support for the Deputy when he was a former Minister dealing with transport issues as well, as he will be well aware.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----one must demonstrate the basis and justification for it. There was a full tribunal here and another report by a senior counsel. There were still questions left to be answered. Now I understand there is new evidence. If that is the case and that evidence shows there should be a commission of investigation, then there will be one. I ask the Deputy to accept from me that the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Howlin. Few people in the House know as much about this as does the Deputy. He has had experience of the industrial relations machinery of the State being made available to many companies in the past. This is not the first occasion we have had some difficulties with Bus Éireann. The difficulties of the past have been ironed out on each occasion by using that machinery...