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- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----if a replacement is due, one must give notice six months in advance of whether the intention is to make a reappointment for a person with specialist services or not.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is why that matter came before Government yesterday for the reappointment of a person to the board of the ESB with particular expertise and requirements.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: NewERA, which has an involvement in State boards of this nature in terms of the qualifications required, supports that position.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: One must give notification six months in advance.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister must bring it to Cabinet six months in advance-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----if an appointment of that nature is to be made. That is why that person was reappointed because of a specialist-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----knowledge that the person brings to the board. It is an appointment-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----that requires particular expertise, which this person has.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: One must give notice six months notice in advance, which is what the Minister did and the Government accepted that.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams’s central charge is about failure to deliver. The mandate given to this Fine Gael-Labour Party Government was to fix our public finances and put our country back to work. Five years ago, we took over these benches by mandate of the electorate. Interest rates were more than 15% and unemployment was 15% too. We had a haemorrhage of emigration, 300,000 jobs lost and a...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has never supported anything that ever came from Europe. He wanted them to go away, get lost and go home. When he speaks about equality, the actions of the Government were not just rhetoric. The first action we took was to reverse the cut in the minimum wage imposed by the previous Fianna Fáil Government.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The second action we took was to reduce VAT from 13.5% to 9% in the hospitality sector, stabilising that industry and creating 35,000 jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Government reduced the levels of universal social charge introduced by Deputy Martin when in government at the lower ends and capped the benefit of universal social charge at €70,000.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am already committed to the abolition of the universal social charge over the next several years as a matter of equality. It ill behoves Deputy Adams to talk about confidence when he stood up in public and said he had wonderful confidence in a person called Slab Murphy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Overcrowding in emergency departments is always a serious issue. Over the past short period, the Government has focused on addressing this issue by making extra capacity and facilities available. It is not just a beds issue.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Some 1,000 beds were taken out of the system. These have to be put back in again. This requires investment in facilities, nurses, doctors and other staff. That means one needs an economy that can actually drive that. An extra €117 million has been put in to this area, along with extra staffing put in place. There is a three-pronged approach to addressing the problem. These...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin has no credibility on the economy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: When he walked out of here before the general election in 2011-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----he left behind a programme, which he has been spouting about around the country and that others have implemented. Let me remind him of some of the stuff the Government of which he was a member included in that programme.