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Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will that be before the budget?

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Come back Gerry Collins.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: While the Government sits idly by.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I refer to No. 39, the proposed national cultural institutions Bill. While I am unsure whether I am in order in this regard, the Government is always talking about a sense of fairness in Bills and legislation. Although I do not know whether I should describe him as a national institution, the former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, is going around suggesting the Tánaiste has been...

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----and that this is most unfair. I do not want him going into the Christmas period believing that the Tánaiste is bad-mouthing him.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: When does the Government intend to introduce the national cultural institutions Bill?

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: In recent months members of the Government, including the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, have travelled around the country and abroad, and have made perfectly plain that it is the Government's intention to take out €1.3 billion from the public sector pay bill without compromising services. Is the Taoiseach still committed to taking out €1.3 billion from the public service pay...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: It seems as if the Government has abdicated its responsibility to sort out the economic mess into which it has led us. It is not possible to get permanent savings by having a further 12 days' holidays. It is not possible to give the same level of service with 5% less man-hours. The detail available to Opposition parties, such as it is, leads me to believe that what the Taoiseach is talking...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach stated we would get more with less and he will give us less with less.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: A logistical shambles.

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the remit of the social policy unit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35604/09]

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: One stated aim of the social policy unit within the Department of the Taoiseach is the identification "of emerging trends and policy issues and proposing new initiatives and responses". What evidence has the social policy unit provided to the Taoiseach of emerging trends and what policy issues have been identified? What new initiatives have been proposed by the unit?

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I was interested in what new initiatives the unit has proposed to the Taoiseach, as one of its stated aims is to propose new initiatives to the Taoiseach. Has the unit provided the Taoiseach with new initiatives or has it made proposals in that regard? Following on from the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Gilmore, I am sure he is aware of the difficulties that so many people now face. It...

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I did not suggest that.

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am asking the Taoiseach what new initiatives it has proposed.

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the social inclusion unit in the Taoiseach's Department makes some valuable recommendations. Deputy Catherine Byrne reminded me of the Liberties recycling programme which trains those who were once involved in drugs. When the community employment or FÁS scheme for these trainees ends, no other programmes are available to them.

Departmental Programmes. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: A Cheann Comhairle, it is in cases such as this on which the social policy unit of the Taoiseach's Department should be focussed. Those in the Liberties recycling programme have been weaned off drugs, received an element of re-training and have a new focus in their lives. When their programme finishes, however, no other programmes are available to them and the danger is that they will drift...

Public Relations Contracts. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent work of the committee in his Department which oversees the awarding of public relations contracts by Ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35236/09]

Public Relations Contracts. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: In July 2008, the Minister for Finance said all expenditure by Department and State agencies on consultancies, advertising and public relations contracts would be cut by at least 50%. I note radio advertisements costing over €23,000 were recently put out by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government announcing the special protection of seven areas in County Dublin....

Public Relations Contracts. (2 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: If the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Cullen, wants to launch a campaign about, say, new sports facilities and wishes to award a contract to a public relations agency for it, what process must he go through? Does he have to contact the Taoiseach's Department? Does he just consult with his Secretary General and award a contract on the basis of tenders received by his Department?