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- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is important legislation, as Deputy Coppinger says. It is in the Seanad on Report Stage on Thursday. I cannot say whether the eminent speakers in Seanad Éireann will want to amend it or how long it will take to discuss. When it concludes Report Stage in the Seanad, it will then come here.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I cannot say how long the Seanad will take to deal with Report Stage given there are amendments and Members can have very strongly held views about it. I do not want to do the Seanad's business for it.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Let us first see when it finishes in the Seanad.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Criminal Justice (Offences relating to Information Systems) Bill has been published. The universities Bill is a priority for publication. It seeks to give the Minister the power to require universities to comply with Government guidelines on remuneration allowances and so on.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is scheduled for publication and it has priority attached to that. I will advise the Deputy on the state of progress.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: That Bill has gone through, as the Deputy said. A number of sections require a commencement order. The Minister for Justice and Equality intends to sign those sections on 29 January. I understand there are other sections that require a commencement order to take place in February but she intends to sign the immediate ones on 29 January.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I read the report in respect of the elderly lady the Deputy speaks of who has a particular set of challenges, and I note the intervention of the President of the High Court. There is a health Bill, which is published, which deals with the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, the Dentists Act 1985, the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, the Pharmacy Act, and the Nurses and Midwives Act...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I never mentioned GSOC at all yesterday. I have absolute confidence in the capabilities of the eminent judicial chairperson-----
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am not responsible for headlines in papers.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I made the point about-----
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am not responsible for headlines in The New York Timesor anywhere else.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The question of ethnicity has not come before the Government for discussion but was referred to at a Cabinet sub-committee and there is further work to be done there. In respect of the serious matter the Deputy has raised about Traveller accommodation, I would point out that the site in question was unoccupied since 2008 and there was serious deterioration. It was occupied in April of 2014....
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 14, referral to select committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the association agreement between the EU and its member states and Central America; No. 42, statements on European Council, Brussels, pursuant to Standing Order 102A(2)(b); and No. 6, Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: This is a serious matter in the context of challenges facing the country. Obviously, while we must hold a general election in Ireland, Europe faces a number of challenges that will be of highly significant import, of which this is one. Issues such as migration, oil, energy costs, climate change, the impact of the great powers and the situation in the Middle East are not within our control,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will send the Deputy a note on it. The Deputy mentioned a number of other things. India requested to join the Missile Technology Control Regime, MTCR, as it is called. We indicated to Prime Minister Modi that Ireland was prepared to join a consensus on the Missile Technology Control Regime at a recent meeting in Rotterdam but no consensus emerged from that. India had also submitted an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: It was specifically on the enhancement of India's capacity to trade in civil nuclear technologies. I will send Deputy Martin a more detailed note on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 and 25 together. The Economic Management Council has been established with the status of a Cabinet committee and has four members: the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Council's role is to manage the Government's programme and the statement of Government priorities in respect...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: Given that the Deputy served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, he is aware of the potential that exists in India with a burgeoning middle class spending capacity and the English language being spoken by the majority. India has the biggest population of English speaking people and it has a very strong legal base. Clearly, the opportunity for investment to Europe is very...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: The extension was sought by a number of countries - Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany. Opposition to that was expressed by France and Italy, but when the agenda point was finally reached at the COREPER meeting, there was no objection and no opposition. There were two full working days for countries to consider the final text, as the final compromise was reached with the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Enda Kenny: I am obliged, as one who held the Presidency of the Union, to engage and discuss this matter with all the other leaders. Here is the evidence of the discussions that took place not at the European Council but with the representatives of the permanent representatives of COREPER.