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Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: Access to the industrial relations machinery of the State, namely, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court, was made available to the Garda on an ad hocbasis. Such access will continue on an ad hocbasis until legal provisions are introduced to deal with the matter. I have no intention of presenting a similar case for the Defence Forces, who are an aid to the civil power.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: I have answered a question on this issue previously. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, intends to bring forward a comprehensive rental strategy to the House in the coming weeks. I can inform Deputy O'Sullivan that it will be before Christmas.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, is in Marrakesh indicating the strategy Ireland will follow in order to meet our climate change commitments and challenges from 2020 to 2030. There is still a great deal of technical work to be undertaken in that regard with officials in Brussels. It is a very complex area and it will be challenging but we...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: We do not have legislation on it but the fact of the matter is that there is an extraordinary amount of work going on in the area. Everybody appreciates the potential value of broadband. There are many areas in the country in which it is grossly inadequate. Over €2 billion has been invested by the industry in upgrading telecoms, networks and services over the past four years. About...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The domestic violence Bill and the victims of crime Bill will both be published this session.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The issue was well debated here during the proceedings relating to the Act of 2014. The assertion that there are no representatives being appointed to the MSI-MED committee and none of the independent experts on that body are based in Ireland is misleading. That committee is a sub-committee of the larger steering committee on media and information society and there is a principal officer of...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: He does not have the power to act retrospectively on this, as I have pointed out.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: I misinformed the Deputy in that the Minister is not here tomorrow due to the climate business in Marrakesh and the Minister for Education and Skills has a swap arrangement for tomorrow. Obviously, the most important of the considerations involved is the potential impact on media freedom if a Minister effectively has the power to break up a media business at any time. That could also have a...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The decision was made after years of discussion about the principle of building a national children's hospital and the location at which it should be built. That argument is finished and a decision has been made.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The application has been granted planning permission and has been approved by An Bord Pleanála. A fabulous site at St. James's Hospital was chosen in 2012.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is planned to co-locate a maternity hospital at St. James's Hospital. On a separate matter, the Minister has been in negotiation with the authorities from St. Vincent's Hospital and Holles Street to move the national maternity hospital to the St. Vincent's Hospital site. Money is on the table for that. Given that thousands of babies are born every year at Holles Street, where conditions...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: No, I do not support the call mentioned by Deputy Catherine Murphy. This report was commissioned by Lynn Boylan MEP and was based on a legal opinion from two firms based in London and Belfast, both of which primarily work in the field of human rights. The report seems to have been prompted in part by the 2015 report of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, a centre based in...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: I thought the Deputy was going to ask a different question when I heard him refer to runaway trains.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy raises an important point. Everybody should take pride in the fact that at long last we were in a position to make a decision that there would be a national children's hospital. It was followed by a decision in respect of the location of the national children's hospital and the agreement from the planning process and An Bord Pleanála that it should go ahead. Any of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: There will be a time and a place for that. It is in the interest of fairness across the board because we face external challenges as well arising from the decision of the UK and other international events that may have an impact upon the world economy and upon ours as an exporting nation. There is pressure on the Exchequer pay bill. Nobody I know wants to wreck the hard-won gains in our...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams does not want that to happen, nor does anybody else. On that basis, it is imperative that the Government responds collectively but in the broadest possible way, with the best-managed strategy and in the interests of everybody.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: This is not a case of one particular sector trying to win over another. There are challenges and there are financial pressures, but we must deal with this through a carefully managed strategy and process by which everybody can have his or her say and by which we point a way forward in the interests of everybody.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams says we need a strong and properly resourced public sector. Everyone can agree with that. However, we need to have fairness across the board for every worker in the country. We have come through difficult times, as Deputy Adams is well aware. He should understand that the Government, made up of its different elements, will not sacrifice the hard-won gains that have been...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: I have said to Deputy Adams that the Government will respond to this collectively and set in place its strategy for a best managed way of dealing with the many challenges facing the Government, the economy and, in particular, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. A low was reached in 2013 of 260,700 public servants. The corresponding figure was 285,400 in 2008. The end of 2016...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Government does get it and it understands what needs to be done here. I point out to the Deputy, as I have done before, that he was an esteemed Minister for Education and Science. The fact of the matter is that the taxpayers of this country were left with a €64 billion debt to pay back for banks after the catastrophic management of the economy. That is fact. We are emerging...