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Order of Business. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Ní ceist Dáil ach ceist don Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta í.

Order of Business. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: There is a bug on the line.

Fisheries Protection. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Hear, hear. Well done.

Fisheries Protection. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Now he has tunnel difficulties.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of tax incentives. Last week we discussed in the House the question of tax reliefs given on various schemes. They have cost €1.56 billion over the past five years. It is obvious that the cost of the reliefs was twice the value of the benefits enjoyed. Most of these reliefs went to a small number of high-earning individuals, some of them...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I wish to make a few suggestions to the Taoiseach in the interest of simplicity and greater effectiveness. Relief for medical expenses does not include routine dental and optical treatment, or the first €125 spent by an individual or €250 by a family in respect of medical expenses. Those restrictions only add to the difficulty people have in making claims. Perhaps if these restrictions...

Order of Business. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: It is fine.

Order of Business. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I want to raise the issue of the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006, which is partly the reason for the late sitting. The Bill which includes 50 sections and nine Schedules is quite long. As it was only published yesterday and Second Stage is being taken today, I recommend that to be fair to Opposition spokespersons, Second Stage should be taken on Thursday. While I know the...

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the duties and responsibilities of the special political advisers as appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39758/05]

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: According to the Taoiseach's reply he has a programme manager, a special adviser and three other special advisers. Is that correct?

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: There are six, including the programme manager to the Tánaiste and so on. In terms of their salary scales, the first four cost €513,000, and good luck to them. When the Taoiseach states that their duties are partly to advise him on a wider range of issues, it seems strange that none of his political advisers brought up the matter of the former Minister of State, Deputy Callely, being...

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Good, sound political advice might have led the Taoiseach in a different direction. I am not privy, of course, to conversations the Taoiseach might have had with these people who cost a half a million euro, but he could have gone to any street in his constituency and got very clear advice for nothing as to when, how and where he might site a successor. Is the Taoiseach happy with the range of...

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I commended the Tánaiste on the speed with which the Government published the report commissioned by the HSE into the provision of children's hospital facilities in Dublin, in terms of the move from Temple Street, the Mater and so on. When they consult the Ministers and the Ministers of State, do the programme managers and advisers encourage them to bring reports to Cabinet for quick...

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: It does.

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle cannot stop me because——

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach said these special advisers advise him on a wide range of issues.

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I am asking about a wide range of issues, and the Ceann Comhairle appears to think, when he comes here on Tuesdays, that he has to concoct some method to prevent legitimate questions being asked.

Ministerial Staff. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I know some of the Taoiseach's advisers and they are very good people. In the interests of efficiency in Government and of giving the public information contained in reports that are locked away in Departments, do these advisers urge Ministers to publish reports quickly because the people would like to know what is in them? That is a fair question, which by any standards the Ceann Comhairle...

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public-private partnerships will next meet; the number of meetings of the team planned for 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39760/05]

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Has consideration been given to the continuation of the PPP process as it is currently operated? I made the point previously that it is a very expensive and technically complex tender system and that there is no claw-back for companies who are unsuccessful in tendering. We could end up with a small cartel of influential companies which could give rise to fears of inflated prices. In the case...