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- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Apprenticeship Council has already taken a number of new apprenticeships into account. If Deputy Heydon has any proposals in that regard I am sure the council is flexible in terms of trying to provide for a changing environment. If he has a particular interest in non-traditional skills or trades that are required I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, would be very...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It has not come before the Government yet. I will advise the Deputy on the preparation or work that has been done since 6 May.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Barry that the Bill is due in the House next year.
- Dying with Dignity Bill 2015: First Stage (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: No. Deputy Halligan's Bill is not opposed.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the health information and standards Bill were cleared last November. The Bill is being drafted and will be published in the new year. The planning Bill mentioned by the Deputy was approved by the Cabinet this morning, with the appointment of a regulator and the publication of the six reports commissioned a few years ago. It was also noted that the Department of the...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is to be released immediately. There was no restriction on when it might be published. We gave approval for it to be published.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is being published today or it was authorised to be published today. We are also providing for a planner to be put in place to oversee all local government programmes and all rezonings. A planning regulator with appropriate authority will be put in place. That measure was also cleared this morning.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I cannot say when, but it will be next year.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I cannot give the Deputy a date for publication of the new children's hospital establishment Bill, but it is proceeding very strongly. I hope the planning process will flow smoothly. It will be the largest infrastructural development in the country for many years and I can confirm that the board is working exceptionally well. Obviously, it needs to make preparations for the integration of...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The calories have not showed up yet. It is still cooking.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It was a good report, on which Deputy Martin Heydon did quite a deal of work. I have the report which he gave me some time ago. I do not have a problem in having it placed in the Oireachtas Library and I am quite sure the Deputy would not either. On the ambulance service, this has been an issue from a union point of view for quite a long time. It is a problem in that a patient from...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Out good and loud.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is due for publication early next year.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: If one works backwards from 1 January 2016 when the Bill is to take effect, it is important that the issues be dealt with as outlined by the Minister for Justice and Equality. Today the Cabinet approved all of these stages whic allowh for a further two and half hours of discussion of the matter this evening. This is a very important development. The personnel, including the chairperson,...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: To respond to the Deputy's first question, I have already said a memorandum of understanding has been signed for quite some time between the Office of Public Works and the insurance companies. The purpose is to share information on flood risk and how it might be factored into the commercial assessments made by insurance companies. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have given a commitment that we will look at what might be done, working between the Office of Public Works and the insurance companies. On the Constitutional Convention, as I have said on a number of occasions, I accept responsibility for the fact that we have not had a discussion here. I am now giving the Deputy an undertaking that the issues will be discussed when the Dáil resumes...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: In response to Deputy Ó Fearghail, the Cabinet Committee on Health considers political oversight of many of the programmes being implemented. The long-term view is to have a single universal health care system but I have to admit the method by which the Government was to do this is no longer accepted as valid because it was too costly, as identified by the report of the Economic and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I think it met twice but I will have to confirm that. On the last occasion I discussed with it the question of the derogation in respect of Irish being a European language. We have failed as a country to provide the number of properly trained and high standard translators who have three languages. If we were to take all the people from this country who can measure up to the standard...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is a question of recognising that our language is a European language. This country has not measured up in terms of providing a sufficient number of people of sufficient standard to sit in those boxes and translate the communiqués and the language in the way we would wish. We have to extend that out to 2021. I do not like that because there is no reason we cannot be much better....
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a15, International Protection Bill 2015 - Financial Resolution; No.39, Garda (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and shall adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members’...