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Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: The greatest migration in human history is under way as 400 million people in China move from rural areas into towns and cities. They do not want to continue to eat only rice but want to eat meat and similar products. This development is having an extraordinary impact in other parts of the world, for example, in terms of cutting down rainforests and changing agricultural patterns. In view...

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I was struck by a statement of the late Martin Luther King Jr., who was buried on this date. He said: "Our lives begin to end once we become silent about things that matter". The Taoiseach will be reflecting on his years as Taoiseach and head of the country in the next period and he must look back on how we as a nation have treated our elderly. A number of years ago Deputy O'Dowd exposed a...

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Taoiseach takes the opportunity to go out there. In respect of the elderly in general, every Deputy has serious problems with the HSE. Deputy Naughten received two letters from the HSE in the last period, one of which told him that two weeks of respite care in a nursing home had been withdrawn because there were adequate home help allowances and home care packages whereas the...

Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Can I take it from the announcement we discussed here last week that 12 June is the date for the EU referendum? While I do not know that there has been a formal announcement, I expect that it is the date and, for our part, we are planning on that basis. The Taoiseach had to make a momentous announcement last week. In respect of a question asked by Deputy Gilmore last week, the Dáil will...

Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Is it the Taoiseach's intention to do this on the Tuesday or to come to the Dáil on the Wednesday? Some have said I was not as magnanimous as I should have been about the Taoiseach and I want an opportunity to speak on that.

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Nally report under the reorganisation of the Chief State Solicitor's office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3548/08]

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: On 28 January this year, the Director of Public Prosecutions published on his website a document known as the Reasons Project. It was a discussion paper on prosecution policy and the provision of reasons for decisions. As the House is aware, the DPP's role is to conduct all criminal prosecutions which are serious enough to be tried before a jury. The problem is that in cases where no...

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I share the Taoiseach's view in that regard. Prior to the election last year I was shocked by the scale of hurt felt by a woman who was abused in her childhood years. Eventually when the case was sent before the Director of Public Prosecutions she was informed, not by the DPP but by the abuser, that a prosecution was not being taken, which, as the Taoiseach rightly says, is appalling. If...

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach made commendable efforts in respect of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings to bring some finality and closure to that issue, which had gone on for a very long time. As he rightly pointed out, the Omagh bombing took place ten years ago. I commend the Taoiseach's action in making available whatever he can to these victims. I met with Michael Gallagher, as the Taoiseach did, and those...

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date by the quality customer service working group established within his Department under the strategic management initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3550/08]

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Over the years, we have often raised the question of the efficiency of the public service from the perspective of customer convenience. Out of 100 public offices surveyed by Deputy Varadkar, only three were open on Saturdays, three were open after 6 p.m. and a large number were found not to meet normal office opening hours. For example, the public planning counters in the four Dublin local...

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach agree that we should set a target date — I suggest 1 January 2011 — when e-services should be available on-line both to customers and businesses and ensure that target date is implemented? For the convenience of the customer, there could be on-line payment of court fines, student grants, passport applications, an e-register, on-line social welfare schemes and so on....

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I know that. Sometimes one cannot get through.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: One of the major failures of the Government in the past ten years has been its inability to plan properly and match resources to plans that have been conceived. Nowhere is this more evident than in the workings of the Health Service Executive, HSE, which has become a monstrosity. Every day we see evidence of gross mismanagement and an inability to use facilities for which the taxpayer has...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: This is probably worse than we had thought. I accept the Taoiseach's apology to the family of the deceased person. It should not be necessary for him to have to do this but I am glad he did because of the blatant failure of HSE management to deal with it properly. One can understand the hurt caused. The HSE website states "welcome to northeast health.ie". It goes on to say that the HSE is...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am for it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Unlike the Minister's crowd when——

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Sometimes the folders get mixed up. The legislative programme for this Dáil session published by the Chief Whip contains 17 Bills, seven of which were listed for the previous session and some others were on the list before that. Has any analysis been carried out of how these targets are to be reached? There is little point in publishing lists of Bills which do not make it through to...

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am just asking for an opportunity to debate the matter next week. The second report on the Rebecca O'Malley case, as referred to by Deputies Reilly and Gilmore, sets out very clearly that patient-centred care is not sufficiently embedded in the management process, that systems have delayed and avoided difficult decisions and priority was not given to those who needed it. This is a major...

Written Answers — Socio-Economic Review: Socio-Economic Review (2 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on figures published by CORI Justice in the Socio Economic review for 2008, entitled Planning For Progress and Fairness, that show 720,774 people, 17% of the population, have incomes less than the standard poverty line recognised by the European Commission and the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter....