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Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: The vast majority.

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: The then Minister, Charlie McCreevy, promised 10,000 people would move from Dublin in three years to 53 locations.

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I refer again to the question of facilities for locations to which decentralisation was to take place. The Taoiseach's predecessor said on a number of occasions that an advantage of the decentralisation programme would be the ability to do business with Dublin from many locations around the country. Has he information in his brief as to how many of the 53 locations have full broadband...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am not going to stand up in the House and impugn the personal integrity of any person. The House has discussed on a number of occasions the capacity of appointees of the Government to do the job for which they are appointed. One of the primary considerations of this Government has been to focus on the business of wastage of money. It is now perfectly obvious that there is something...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste said that this matter was all in the past. I would like to hear the Taoiseach's view on what has gone wrong because something is radically wrong. The latest revelations are about some place in Florida and somebody in my office picked out some information about it for me from the Internet. One of the more affordable vacation spots in all of Florida, there is never a lack of...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach consider it appropriate that a sum of $400 of Irish taxpayers' money should be spent on some person in a nail bar in west Cocoa Beach? Is this appropriate expenditure of Irish taxpayers' money when 10,000 people a month are losing their jobs? Is the identity of the person concerned known to the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: What is the Taoiseach going to do about it? Up to 10,000 people a month are losing their jobs while these revelations come out week after week. To claim the process is in place and the Committee of Public Accounts will come to a conclusion displays a massively cavalier approach from the Government. Material was sent to the committee by FÁS that had entries blacked out. I understand there...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: What is the Taoiseach's view on a €76,000 credit limit on a credit card issued to the persons involved? Will he explain beyond what the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment said was all in the past? The situation is that the Comptroller and Auditor General, the fraud squad and the Committee of Public Accounts are examining the organisation. Various people associated...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: Chiropodists.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I agree to that.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have been examining the list of Supplementary Estimates. On Vote 26 under Education and Science it says excesses which occurred in a number of services, including national teachers salaries and grants to VECs, are offset by savings on schools information and communications technology, the second and third level capital and the strategic innovation fund. The programme laid out for IT for...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve a blue card status for a small number of applicants (details supplied), which would cover their requirements for frequent medical intervention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41998/08]

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I do not object to it but I wish to give a pointer to the Tánaiste. This report comes from the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny. The Government elevated what was a sub-committee to full committee status, which I strongly support. This report is one of a series of reports that are absolutely critical to the way this House of Parliament deals with its interaction with Europe on behalf...

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have a number of questions for the Tánaiste. There are reports in all the media outlets today of the Minister for Finance calling in the heads of the banks for discussions. In the past 24 hours, my office has been contacted by five small businesses that will not be in existence in the next three weeks unless there is some easing of the tightness that exists for credit lines at the...

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: I believed this was announced with the budget.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: Ten thousand are being put on the unemployment list per month.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government tried to take medical cards from the over-70s.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: It imposed a 1% levy and attempted to introduce a change to the categorisation for disability payments.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: Where is the Taoiseach's plan? Where is the Taoiseach himself?

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is both.