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- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Summary information in respect of notifications of infectious diseases is available from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) on their website. However, issues may arise in regard to the accuracy of such data in respect of Defence Force personnel, as situations may arise where the status of the individual as a member of the Defence Forces was either not recorded or not declared....
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (14 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Induction into a Cadetship in the Permanent Defence Force cannot be deferred if a candidate has not completed their studies successfully. However, applications for all categories of Cadetships are invited from persons who have applied to sit for examinations in the competition year as will enable them to satisfy the minimum educational qualifications criteria. Original documentary evidence...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Programme (9 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: There are no published Bills relevant to my Department outstanding from the previous Dáil. The Government’s Legislation Programme which is due to be published shortly will include details of the Bills that are currently under preparation within my Department. The Bills in question are as follows: 1. Defence Forces (Forensic Evidence) Bill; 2. Red Cross Bill; 3. Defence...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will raise that with-----
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The two go hand in hand. I will raise that with the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, and will ask him to reply to Deputy Healy-Rae. In respect of the first issue the Deputy raised, clearly the appropriate time to have a deeper analysis of what the European directive actually meant would have been when it was being drafted in the first instance, many years ago now. As Deputy...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: This divestment of patronage in schools was initiated by a former Minister for Education and Skills, former Deputy Ruairí Quinn. The Archbishop of Dublin pointed out that the Catholic Church has too many schools and wishes to divest numbers of these to other patrons, whether that was Educate Together or whatever. That process did not measure up to the targets that the Minister had in...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: We have chosen to go down the road of dealing with this by providing more multidenominational schools. For the information of Deputy Coppinger, we are advised that there would potentially be very significant constitutional issues in terms of the rights of religious expression in attempting to require through legislation that a Catholic school would admit a non-Catholic ahead of a Catholic....
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Bruton, will discuss this with the Oireachtas committee. The Bill introduced by the former Minister, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, some time ago did not deal with this issue. It is an element that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, would be quite happy to discuss with the Oireachtas committee.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Following the meeting I had with the Deputy and other parties last week, I can confirm that this morning the Government approved the drafting of a Bill in respect of the general scheme of the commissions of investigation dealing with IBRC. That was the approval of the urgent drafting of legislation to enhance the powers of the commission of investigation into IBRC along the lines of a...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Health met representatives of the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland last Friday. The money has been restored in full for what was originally intended for mental health and the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, will outline the details of how it is to be spent. With regard to recruitment, there will be a focus on attracting psychiatric nurses back to Ireland and...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to brief the Deputy and anybody else on that. It might be no harm if we had a debate on the Palestinian situation in due course. It is an issue of considerable importance to Irish people. I was in New York when the Palestinian flag was flown over the United Nations headquarters for the first time. Obviously, most countries recognise a two-state...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I expect that the adjusted Estimates being published now will be debated here next week in plenary session and in committees in the House.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: For 2016.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: They were signed off by Government this morning. Those details will now become available and will be debated here in plenary session or in committee, as is appropriate.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: They will be published now, I expect. The Minister has signed off on them and Government has signed off on them.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Individual Estimates but with the overall figures included.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes, sanctioned this morning by the Cabinet. That is for 2016. The national economic discourse will take place on 24 or 25 June in Dublin Castle, hosted by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, and with a full debate here as well. The preparation for the 2017 Estimates and the budget for 2017 will commence after the Estimates have been signed off for 2016 and voted...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The post offices are the same; they will be in the Department of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Humphreys.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I have explained about the tender and the awarding of the contract.