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- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will be straight with the Deputy. This is a partnership Government. It is very different to having a majority Government, because one is not in a position to do as one might like. I did say that if he gave me a couple of nominations from particular sectors I would consider them. Can anybody object to the founder of Pieta House being able to give of that experience? Can anybody object...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Love them all to bits. It is a new circumstance and it is never easy, as Deputy Howlin knows from experience, but believe me we will give every opportunity for those who serve in government to serve well and do their duty with responsibility.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Where difficulties arise we will try to have everybody understand there is collective responsibility on the House to move it forward. Deputy McGrath and anybody else can rest assured we will politically love them to bits, in the sense of-----
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the Estimates, the only Estimate passed, as the Deputy knows, was for the Central Statistics Office because the census had to be taken on 24 April. The Minister expects to deal with all of the Estimates for 2016 in the next two weeks and will follow this with a timetable for setting out the summer statement and dealing with the preparations for the budget for 2017.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will send the date to the Deputy, but it will be in the next two weeks. The Minister has already outlined it. With regard to the long list of Bills, I do not want a long list of Bills which will never go through. I want a list of Bills-----
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Next Tuesday, I will have a list of Bills which are really important which Ministers and Departments are really anxious to put through, for instance dealing with the question of prescription drugs before the summer recess. The Minister is working very hard on this, and instead of waiting for it to come through by the end of the year we hope that with a bit of agreement it might be possible...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: At Cabinet this morning we restored 13 Bills to the Dáil clár which had fallen when the Dáil was dissolved. These include the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016, the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, the National Shared Services Office Bill 2016, the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016, the Minerals Development Bill 2015, the Criminal...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: They are restored to the Order Paper. I expect the legislative programme will come before Cabinet next week, once Minister and Secretaries General have settled on what it is they want to be able to put through during the forthcoming period. We have had this practice of A lists, B lists and C lists for as long as I can remember. On every occasion the Dáil has come back, Ministers...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: We know the impact of that. There will be no guillotines. I, for one, do not want to see A lists, B lists and C lists that have no hope of getting through.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: This is a different situation. To get any Bill through now, we need consensus, agreement, consultation and so on. That is what Members are going to have, and they will have plenty of it. There is no point looking for 25 Bills on the A list when a Minister is only going to get three or four through. The committees that will be set up by the Oireachtas will have a far greater responsibility...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is correct. Many of the lists were pressurised lists in that Ministers had to say, "I got my Bill on the B list"-----
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----whether it was the noise Bill, the greyhound Bill or the bail Bill going on for 15 years. I am putting an end to all of that now.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Bills that will be brought before the House will be Bills that have a realistic chance of being discussed in the public interest. I expect that next week. Issues like the sugar tax and such like are a matter for the budget. The Minister for Health will have as many or more home care packages for this year. He is looking at the question of the waiting lists for home care packages...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Wednesday. It is a bank holiday weekend.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has made a full statement already and there has been quite a deal of discussion at the various Oireachtas committees on the question on NAMA. NAMA personnel at the highest level have responded and given much time on different occasions to discuss these matters. If two people have been arrested, they have been arrested on suspicion of particular charges and I expect that the...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: No, I will not. There has not been any allegation of wrongdoing against NAMA.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy informs me that two people have been arrested. I assume they have been arrested for good reason. Representatives of NAMA have appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts and have given very lengthy statements. They have been crystal clear and that from their perspective, there is no allegation of wrongdoing against NAMA. NAMA has done nothing wrong. It has been completely...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Representatives of NAMA have appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts and have given their statements and answered questions at length on all of these issues, and more than once.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Ministers responsible are Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Pat Breen, and the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is all referred to in the Private Members' motion, which is due this evening.