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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 10, inclusive, together. Diary constraints, including my visit to the Vatican and a meeting with Prime Minister Muscat of Malta as part of his pre-EU Presidency tour of capitals, meant that it was not possible for me to meet First Minister Sturgeon during her recent trip to Dublin. In recognition of these constraints, I arranged instead a bilateral...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: In response to Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, strategic development zones are developed in the first instance by local representatives in city councils and other local authorities. They are not developed by the Minister acting alone. There is always a minimum figure of 10% for social housing. The Deputy can take it that the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: As I previously reported to the House, I welcomed the European Commission's chief Brexit negotiator, Mr. Michel Barnier, to Government Buildings on 12 October. His visit to Dublin was one of a series of engagements in EU capitals in order to prepare for the forthcoming negotiations. During the visit he also met the Tánaiste, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Minister...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----who experienced a year like this one where grain was impossible to take out of fields in many places in the country.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I have not heard that any member of the Independent Alliance was opposed to the technological universities Bill.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Boxer is a very strong advocate of it along with a lot of others.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: Senator McFadden and Deputy Moran are very strongly in favour of it. It does not apply.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action has met twice since it was reconstituted in June. It held its first meeting on 7 July and met again on Tuesday, 25 October. The committee addresses the climate change challenge in terms of domestic policy and in relation to Ireland's EU and international...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: As a former Minister, the Deputy will appreciate the fact that there is a new management team for An Post. The management team has been in discussion with the Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, about the matter. This morning, the Government approved the drafting of a Bill in respect of repealing section 30 of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act. The Bill would include a...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: In the UK, there is a pension protection fund which is paid for by levies. However, the fund comes into use only when the company is insolvent. The company the Deputy mentioned is not insolvent. The Minister has met the chairman of the Pensions Authority and asked him to report back on the issue of defined benefits pensions and the situation that will arise over the coming months and...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes. The Cabinet approved the bail Bill this morning and it includes a range of measures which were not in existence before including opportunities for electronic tagging, consistency of dealing with repeat serious offenders. The Bill will be published today and we will have a chance to discuss it here.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: A grant aided targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, is being developed for grain farmers. The Minister, Deputy Michael Creed, has secured credit at a low interest rate. In respect of the taxation, the Minister for Finance put in a gap year for farmers-----

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Government discussed this matter this morning and, under certain conditions, it was agreed that the cap would be lifted. The Minister has already pointed out that he wants to save the five-day service for rural Ireland and to protect the delivery of services. The chief executive spoke about the opportunities that exist for An Post in the time ahead to restructure the services it...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will ask the Minister to put English on the reply the Deputy received.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: The transport scheme is an essential part of the services provided to the people throughout the country. Bus Éireann will explain its difficulties to the Labour Court today and it is looking at the question of the continuation of the best level of services for the people of this country. I am not aware of the difficulties in respect of the route about which the Deputy speaks but I will...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: A structured and well managed decentralisation is always successful. We have gone a long way from the days of writing 53 towns on the back of an envelope and coming in here and announcing decentralisation just like that. Deputy MacSharry may remember those days.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: I hope the west and the north west are looking at the development of the new IDA plant in Sligo and I know the region is working very hard for the amalgamation of the institutes of technology to provide a technological university. I know the area is benefitting from the economics of the Wild Atlantic Way and the massive increase in tourism. I am sure the region appreciates the extra...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: A very clear policy is being pursued by the Minister, with 135 out of 200 jobs outside the Dublin region and a massive programme for broadband provision throughout the country to make every place attractive-----

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----as a location for investment and growth, and power, water and communications are all being worked on.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: We cannot deliver with a magic wand as the Deputy might expect.