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Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: I can confirm to the Deputy that the Technological Universities Bill is awaiting Committee Stage. I will have to come back to Deputy Troy. In fairness, he raised this on quite a number of occasions previously. There was a difference of opinion between Ministers at the time. There is one Minister handling this now. I will have him advise Deputy Troy-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The point Deputy Smith raises deals with the real problem, which is a supply of housing.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Social housing and other housing. The shortage of housing supply has been the main cause of the problem because of the collapse of the entire construction industry during and after the recession. That is the focus of the housing programme put forward by Government. I expect the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill will be debated here - I do not know the exact date - in three weeks' time.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Some of those involved in the grain business will have no income at all this year. The Minister, Deputy Creed, has been speaking to the banks in respect of possible support measures. It is an issue of concern to us because of the extent of the bad weather. I will have the Minister respond to the Deputy on the contacts and the outcome of discussions he has had.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: No. What I said was that there are a small number of judicial positions that are vacant. I do not intend to bring names to Government for appointment to fill those small number of positions. My focus is on introducing a new way of appointing members of the Judiciary under legislation currently being drafted for the judicial appointments commission. I said yesterday that we cannot have a...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Skills might respond to that question.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Tá cruinniú den choiste le bheith ann go luath. Tá an dáta socraithe. Beidh faisnéis le fáil tar éis an chruinniú sin.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: We expect the mortgage court Bill to go for pre-legislative scrutiny in November. We expect the heads of the personal injuries Bill to be produced by the end of the year and the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has been working on motor insurance and hopes to have his proposals ready in November. I will confirm progress on that to Deputy Michael McGrath...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Government is fully focused on producing the legislation for the judicial appointments commission. There are a few vacancies in the courts. On the last occasion when we made appointments we expected them to be the last appointments under the old system pending the introduction of the new judicial appointments commission. I do not have any proposals to bring names before Cabinet for...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: We are working on the creation of the new system and the judicial appointments commission.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: I wrote to all the party leaders asking them to nominate somebody to serve on the implementation committee. As soon as I have all those names, and I assume every party will want to participate, under the direction of the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Buttimer, the first meeting will take place and the authors of the report, former Senators Manning and O’Toole, are available to give...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: I put it to Deputy Harty that we are not waiting on the report. The report has been done, conducted, published and is being acted upon. One element is the basic bank account, which postmasters and postmistresses have sought for quite some time. Government has also tried to put business the way of post offices. For example, there was the question of driving licences and the question of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Harty has raised an issue that has gone on for many years. While the post office network has been extensively reduced in the past ten or 15 years, it is still an important entity. An Post is conscious of the impact and the potential loss to many places in rural Ireland of the closure of post offices. Clearly, many of the post office systems in large cities and smaller towns in rural...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The question here is in respect of the information received under the Protected Disclosures Act. That has been received by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality. She has to assess it and appoint a person of competence to deal with it. As I said, whatever is in that documentation either stands up or it does not. In that regard, this is a very serious matter. The...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: In respect of GSOC, obviously I have absolute confidence in the Chair, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring. She has said that GSOC needs extra powers and the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality is considering her request. In respect of the documents received under the Protected Disclosures Act by the Tánaiste, I have already said that she has a duty to examine that and to...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy made the point earlier that nothing has changed but it has. There is the independent Policing Authority, which has received a formal request from the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out its view on how members of the Garda Síochána should be treated with regard to whistleblowers providing information. This is about the law of the land, which is the Protected...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Out of that comes a decision as to what action might or might not be taken. I have already stated I have absolute confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Garda Commissioner. I do not have any reason not to.

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: In the first instance, this is a very serious matter. I referred to it yesterday and confirmed that the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality has received correspondence from members of An Garda Síochána under the Protected Disclosures Act. Deputy McDonald is aware that, under section 16(1) of that Act, a person to whom a protected disclosure is made "shall not...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: Some 200,000 jobs are dependent on exports to the UK. The figure of over €7 billion in exports, much of it in the agrifood sector, speaks for itself. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, has commented on it and has met with different groups. We have already had evidence of jobs in the agrifood sector being lost due to the situation regarding...

Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for his comments. We had a very good meeting with the leaders of the different parties yesterday in respect of Brexit and a number of other matters. The Deputy will have been briefed by the Minister for Finance in respect of the general situation as we approach this budget. The issues raised by the Deputy are real, important and very urgent. Clearly, the...