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Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: Responsibility for the post offices shifts to the Minister for regional and rural affairs.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a11, motion re Standing Order 41 (Priority Questions Rota); and No. 5, Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. a11 shall be decided without debate; Private Members business, which shall be No. 71 – motion re motor insurance,...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Martin's first question, let me say that the Government is committed to legislating for both the suspension of charges for nine months and the establishment of an advisory board for Irish Water. In view of the timeframe, the impending legislation will concentrate on the suspension of water charges as per the programme for Government and as per the agreement with Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: That will be dealt with under the Cabinet sub-committee on economic infrastructure and climate change.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: Waste management will be part of the discussions that will take place anyway at the Cabinet sub-committee. I do not have the details referred to by the Deputy but with the indulgence of the Ceann Comhairle, she might raise the matter on the Adjournment and get a direct response from the Minister. I know that the proposed extra charges for green bins by weight was recently reversed by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 and 9 together. The programme for a partnership Government published on 11 May sets out an ambitious programme of work to build a strong economy and to deliver a fair society. Implementing the programme over the lifetime of the Government will involve a range of activity involving all Government Departments. My Department is engaging with all...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: School attendance is a very important element of a child's education. The best education that can be given to children and young people gives them the best opportunity to find a pathway out of difficult circumstances and poverty, a route to find a job and, therefore, the ability to live a life. There was misinterpretation involved here. The intention is not to take child benefit away from...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister made his case for an adjusted Estimate and is restoring in full the amount of money originally allocated to the mental health area. There was an issue with the recruitment of personnel and their availability. Some of them could not be recruited in the timescale that was originally set, and that is the reason the money was diverted, but it has now been restored. The Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: The health sub-committee would have dealt with the question of mental health and mental health services-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: No, it would not have been a decision of a Cabinet sub-committee to transfer or divert money from one section of a Vote to another. Cabinet sub-committees are treated as smaller versions of the Cabinet, as it were, and confidentiality is supposed to be adhered to. However, I notice that there are questions in the House that ask very directly about issues that were discussed at Cabinet...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is the Department of arts. Let nobody say that this is being shoved aside or into an alley way. We want more and more young people to learn from their elders and connect with their peers around the world through the Internet. Is that not why we need broadband in rural areas? It is so they can talk to schools in Auckland, Alaska or South America and ask students there about their music,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----was the need for a far closer conversation between the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Finance of the day. For whatever reason - I am not going to cast aspersions on anybody - that was not happening. The Government I led from 2011 comprised two parties and therefore there were different views on various things. Given the scale of the economic situation we faced, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: I said I would take a real interest in it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: No, I was never Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: It was a big readjustment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: Its demise, rather than abandonment. It is not left there just rusting.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is not a rusting carcass.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: On a number of occasions, the Deputy raised - rightly from his point of view - the way in which questions were being answered in this Chamber. He stated they all were being lumped and grouped together and that he was not getting satisfactory answers. I must state to Deputy Martin that he has asked questions on the first group of questions but also has strayed into the second group of...