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Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 303: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the schemes in place for council tenants to buy out the property they live in; the number of council tenants in each of the Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10674/07]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the legislation which set up the Health Service Executive, I note from some newspaper reports today that exceptionally——

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: ——high overtime payments are being made to some staff who were brought in on contract. Was the range of overtime allowances approved by Cabinet? Is a proper ethical framework in place to ensure conflicts of interest do not arise involving these personnel who invariably have other outside interests?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Is the range of payments——

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Is the range of payments approved by the Cabinet or the HSE?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: The HSE sets the figures.

European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: I wish to share my time with Deputy Allen.

European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: The next decade will see massive changes both within Europe and on a world scale. We will have two American presidential elections and whatever the American people decide will bring a consequent attitude towards foreign affairs and places outside the United States. The current difficulties between the various factions within the Islamic world, Sunnis and Shias, the question of Iran and...

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if the agenda for the March 2007 meeting of the European Council has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6751/07]

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he will hold on the margins of the next European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6752/07]

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of Poland, Mr. Lech Kaczynski; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/07]

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: To ban light bulbs.

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: A spark of light on the electronic voting machines.

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: I note that the chief executive of Ryanair was speaking about the animals on his farm in Mullingar and the contribution they make to greenhouse gases. On a more serious note, was the issue of the massive smog coating discussed with any airline pilots flying in the Far East and from Indonesia across through China?

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Europe, as the Taoiseach is aware, wants to play its part in regard to Kyoto and so on and we can lead by example. Obviously, Europe, as a group of countries interested in this matter, will need to make contact with the Far Eastern countries where there are huge coal fired stations in operation. Was that matter discussed? On 5 March, Eurochambers published its economic analysis which stated...

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: And Al Gore's report.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: It is becoming increasingly obvious that this Government is on its last legs. As the Taoiseach heads to his Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis at the weekend, I am sure he will be looking back on ten years of promises, and maybe he will make a few more. Given that we will not have the opportunity presented to us this morning again, perhaps he will reflect on a few of the promises he made before he...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: That was a very timely intervention, a Cheann Comhairle. I have no intention of reading out the Government's programme for 2002 but I recall the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, saying on 6 May 2002 that the Government would permanently end waiting lists in our hospitals within two years. One should remember that promise. I remember the promise on prisons and crime to...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: On class sizes, it was promised that the average pupil-teacher ratio in classes for children under nine would be below 20:1 by 2007. This was the third promise. In respect of the transport chaos on the M50, the Taoiseach said he would develop the metro for Dublin, achieving a link to Dublin Airport by 2007. Let us not forget the memorable words of the former Minister for the Environment,...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: It is a matter of broken promises.