Results 36,161-36,180 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny

National Archives. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will be aware that section (8)(4)(a), (b) and (c) of the 1986 Act allows an official in the Department of the Taoiseach to certify that files should not be sent to the National Archives if sending them would be contrary to the public interest, if it would or might constitute a breach of statutory duty or it might cause danger or distress to persons living on the grounds that...

Decentralisation Programme. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff of his Department who have applied to be relocated outside Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34102/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Since the last occasion on which these questions were asked, significant events have taken place. Will the Taoiseach indicate if he has made any appointment to the chairmanship of the Government decentralisation implementation committee in view of the resignation of Mr. Phil Flynn arising from his association with a person under investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau in respect of his...

Decentralisation Programme. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: This refers to the Taoiseach's Department.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: May I ask the Taoiseach the reason the date of 2 April was chosen? I know the Taoiseach said it was a little cold for canvassing the other day in Meath.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I understand that. Where I come from we do not feel that cold.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Whoever fixed the date of the elections for 2 April did not appreciate that the Easter campaign comes just before it. Obviously, the Taoiseach will be dispensing his parliamentary members, after a heavy defeat in Meath and Kildare, to the outermost fringes of the country to the Gaeltacht areas. Why was the date of 2 April chosen?

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Is that a statutory date by which the elections must be held or was it chosen at random?

Leaders' Questions. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that at a time of great sensitivity in respect of the Good Friday Agreement and the peace process, it is fundamentally important that the Government of which he is Taoiseach should speak with one voice on these matters. On two occasions in the recent past I asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform whether he was prepared to publish the names...

Leaders' Questions. (23 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach did not respond to the question as to whether his party shared the view of some of his councillors about the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. In recent days, we have heard some pious pronouncements from members of the Sinn Féin Party about republicanism and criminality. It has been suggested that Sinn Féin and its supporters have no part in any criminal activity....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position on the practice of health authorities holding the pension books of older persons in public nursing homes following the Supreme Court judgment of 16 February 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5997/05]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the legal basis for the practice whereby persons with disabilities who are in residential care have all or part of their disability benefit or allowance withheld by the residential care facility; the extent of this practice; if such practices will be affected by the Supreme Court judgment of 16 February 2005 on elderly...

Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused by conditions to licences awarded to certain fishing vessels (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5824/05]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA Ireland-supported firms which were set up here in 2004; the number of existing IDA Ireland-supported firms which increased the number of Irish workers they employ; the number of such increase; the location and number of new jobs created in each firm; the proportion of these new start-ups which was located...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work undertaken by Enterprise Ireland in 2004 in facilitating the expansion of Dublin companies to regional locations; the details of firms which relocated in 2004; the number of employees who relocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5933/05]

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Many thousands of elderly people and their families are anxiously waiting for the Government's response to last week's Supreme Court decision which rejected its attempt to retrospectively deny people their legal rights. The net effect of the judgment, as the Tánaiste will be aware, is that tens of thousands of people were illegally charged over a prolonged period. Yesterday, the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. Arising from it, is she confirming that the Statute of Limitations will not apply to persons of sound mind going back beyond six years or to cases where persons were of sound mind but are now deceased, that is, to the estates of those persons? Can the Tánaiste confirm when she expects to bring the new Bill before the House in respect of the element of the...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Is it proposed in view of the ongoing events affecting the Northern Ireland peace process that the House will have an opportunity to hear statements from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and maybe from the Taoiseach in respect of these matters?

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I appreciate that and I have no wish to be disruptive.