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Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the total cost which has accrued to his Department in respect of the payment of the benchmarking pay awards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30245/10]

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Department of the Taoiseach and generally, does the Taoiseach think it satisfactory that pay awards were given without efficiencies being made contingent upon them?

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Does he have a list of the efficiencies that resulted in his own Department from the payment of the awards recommended in the 2002 and 2007 reports? Can he give instances of increased efficiencies as a result of the payment of benchmarking awards in his Department?

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach does not have the information before him because there is none. As Minister for Finance and in his current position, the Taoiseach presided over huge levels of waste and cost inflation in public spending and a failed value for money strategy without even the smallest of reforms. The discussion that has been ongoing in the public domain over the past several weeks about bank...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Has he commenced a review of the traditional privilege days at Christmas and Easter? Is that issue being considered as another area of reform?

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Taoiseach that changes were introduced in some areas. Revenue is one such example and that is both significant and welcome. He referred to the Department of Education and Skills. Last week, we saw evidence that €300 million set aside for building schools was not being spent by that Department. What sort of benchmarking progress was made in that instance? Now we hear...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: It relates to benchmarking. Surely the process or system in the Department of Education and Skills could have been streamlined in the last eight years to allow money voted through this House for capital works that are necessary for thousands of school places, and for children and their teachers, to be implemented. We should not be hanging on, halfway through November, because €300 million...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: They are good schemes.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I accept that.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: We are on Question No. 1.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will put his question for him.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30246/10]

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Electoral (Amendment) Bill proposes to put in place legal mechanisms to restrict donations to political parties. The representative of the Green Party seated beside the Taoiseach said that it was promised that this Bill would be brought before the House this session. I note from the legislative agenda that the heads of the Bill have yet to be approved by the Government. Is it expected...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Department of Education and Science, a matter to which Deputy Ó Caoláin referred and to which he may return, the Green Party stated that the junior partners in the coalition were determined to maintain support for primary education and to prevent cuts in school capitation. In its revised programme for Government, agreed just over a year ago, the Government committed...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Can I take it from what the Taoiseach has said that the solemn commitment in the programme for Government is no longer valid? If the Taoiseach says that at the Cabinet table there will be a stress on the priorities that were to be made here in the context of the programme for Government, there were two clear facts in that respect. One was that there was to be no further increase in the...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's own facts have always stood up about turning the corner-----

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: ------and how there would be walls of cash.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The only time the country will turn a corner is when the Taoiseach turns into Áras an Uachtaráin.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is in the programme for Government.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I read the programme for Government and it states there will be no further increases in the pupil-teacher ratio.