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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: There are six staff assigned to work in my Constituency Office. Three are based in Government Buildings, two of whom are established civil servants, and one who is on contract. One of the established civil servants is on secondment from the Department of Social Protection. The three remaining staff are based in Castlebar and are on contract. There are three staff assigned to work in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I have a private email account that I use for personal correspondence. I generally use my corporate email account for official purposes but I have on occasion used my private email account for official purposes for operational reasons.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The following table sets out the aggregate net pay (gross pay less deductions); employer PRSI and employee PRSI for employees in my Department for the years 2007 to 2015 in the income ranges requested. Department of the Taoiseach Payroll Year Band Range Aggregate Net Pay Aggregate Employers PRSI Aggregate Employees PRSI 2007 01:  €0 to €30,000 €1,343,649.20...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: My Department has not been involved in any court proceedings that involved non disclosure agreements in the past five years.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Syrian Conflict (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I reported comprehensively to the House on my 10-minute conversation with Mr. Trump in my answers to Parliamentary Questions on Tuesday 22 November 2016. The Dáil transcripts of my response to those questions and my responses to the supplementary questions that followed, may be of interest to the Deputy. Aleppo was not discussed.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: No Bills from my Department have been published or enacted since May 2016. The only Bill for my Department at present is the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) Bill. When drafted, the Bill will provide for the dissolution of the NESDO (National Economic and Social Development Office) and the placing of the NESC on a statutory footing.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Redeployment (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: My Department is based in Dublin and has always been based in Dublin. No Sections of my Department were moved outside of Dublin under the decentralisation programme (2003-2011).

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The total costs for photography paid by the Department in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date is set out in the following table: Date Company Cost 25/3/2011 Maxwell Photography €393.25 (Including VAT) 9/11/2011 Maxwell Photography €849.42 (Including VAT) 21/11/2012 Fennell Photography €116.85 (including VAT) 10/07/2013 Maxwell Photography...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Public Relations Contracts Data (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: My Department has not incurred any expenditure on external public relations since March 2011.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (13 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 687 and 690 together. The primary function of training and education in the Defence Forces is to develop and maintain the capabilities necessary to enable it to fulfil the roles laid down by Government. The Defence Forces conducts training and education under four broad categories namely; leadership, skills, career and collective training. Leadership...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I was glad that he confirmed to me that he would come to Ireland during August 2018. The plans as to where he will visit are a matter to be worked out in discussions with the bishops. The Pope confirmed that would be the case. I said to the Pope that on his visit to Ireland his predecessor was unable to visit Northern Ireland because of the troubles there and that if a visit to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: He referred to the matter in our discussions. I expressed to him the situation that applied in Ireland, whereby there was unbridled joy from all the people in respect of Ireland being the first country where a citizens' convention made a recommendation that a referendum should be held on the question of marriage equality and that the people responded very strongly in giving their ascent and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Thomas Byrne raised a number of questions. I am glad that the Government was in a position to reopen an embassy in Vatican City. The decision to close the embassy had been based on a retirement and the perilous economic state of the country at the time. I commend the ambassador Ms Emma Madigan for her diligence in the work she is doing in the Irish Embassy to the Holy See. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputies for their questions. Deputy Brendan Howlin raised an interesting point. Long before he and I came to the House as Deputies, it was always an issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: Issues, for whatever reason, emerged from the Cabinet, sometimes before they had even been dealt with by the Cabinet. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, who now approaches from on high, is entitled to comment on decisions that have been made by the Cabinet. Yesterday, I asked the Minister to brief the Cabinet members on the situation regarding Bus...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet approved the Schedule yesterday. The Bill will be published shortly and will go to the committee for pre-legislative scrutiny in parallel with Deputy Jim O'Callaghan's Bill. The intention is that the programme for Government requirements will be implemented. We have brought into being the independent Policing Authority, with which Deputy Brendan Howlin is very familiar. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The new policy is in respect of a judicial appointments commission. As the Deputy is aware, it is done by the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, which has a majority of legal personnel with some members from lay society. The programme for Government sets out a process by which it would be changed and made more transparent and very accountable, with a lay chairperson and a lay majority....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 12, inclusive, together. On Monday, 28 November I had a number of engagements in Vatican City, including a private audience with His Holiness, Pope Francis. I had a separate meeting with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and his officials, and I also attended a reception for the Irish community hosted by the Irish ambassador, H.E. Emma...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 and 6 together. The Government has established ten Cabinet committees, on the following topics: housing; health; social policy and public service reform; justice reform; European affairs; regional and rural affairs; economy, trade and jobs; infrastructure, environment and climate action; arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht and the Islands; and Brexit. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: In the course of the meeting with Prime Minister May we did not discuss the British corporation tax rate. I have made it clear on many occasions we are supportive of the devolution of authority to the Northern Ireland Executive Assembly to be able to determine itself the question of a reduction in its corporation tax rate, which would approach ours here. It would make it easier in many ways...