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- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is awaiting Second Stage. I cannot see it being taken before Christmas but it will be taken early in the new year.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will see it in the new year, as he is well aware. There have been quite a number of complications about that.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for Deputy Butler on that. It will be in the new year.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 13, motion re referral to select committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Co-operation between the EU and its member states and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; and No. 1, Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad] - Second and Remaining Stages. It is proposed,...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am glad Deputy Martin agrees with the observation that nobody in public life should be involved in what we saw in the programme last night. I do not wish to say more because it might well be the case that criminal charges could follow from the Garda Síochána. Earlier, I referred to the planning Bill and the criminal justice (corruption) Bill. They will be the follow-on Bills...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Dáil will resume in January. If we can get agreement on a timescale-----
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I appreciate that.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept the Deputy's offer. The Whips can work it out.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: We need to have a rational discussion about this. There are a number of recommendations in respect of serious legislation in that regard and I must talk to the Deputy, Deputy Adams and the other leaders about how it will be possible to draft legislation that will be quite complex and which could be objected to - I do not wish to rush something like that through the House - and which will get...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree that we have to look at all the opportunities the Deputy mentioned and at the bilateral situation but I get the feeling from talking to people in Congress and the Senate that it is not going to happen. I hope we could make some sort of an arrangement but it is not going to be easy. I spoke to the new speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, who was here earlier this summer or last summer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments on Quinnipiac, a fine, young, growing university. President Clinton continues to express a very knowledgeable and far-seeing view on Ireland and Northern Ireland and the issues that evolve there. He has never lost his passion for and interest in the issues surrounding Northern Ireland, for which I always commend him. The issue of the undocumented...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I might say to the Deputy that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----a great deal of progress is being made. The Government provided €51.4 million to deliver on the Minister's target of maximum waiting times of 15 months by the year end, and significant progress is being made. As of 3 December last, a total of 23,924 outpatient appointments and 3,549 inpatient or day case procedures are required to achieve the 15-month maximum waiting time by the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: She made the point to me that, of the 200 nurses who qualified, 150 had been offered permanent employment in Ireland, which is a big change from what applied previously. Of the other 50, most, being young people, wanted to go to different countries for a number of years. I thought that the point she made, as one of 150 young professional nurses employed in hospitals throughout the country,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is the firm intention of Government to work towards the implementation of a single tier system to eliminate the inequitable two-tier system which has been around for many years. This new system is to be funded by universal health insurance but not the model that Government set out with the intention of implementing in the first place because it has been proven to be too costly for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 18, inclusive, together. I made a short visit to the United States on 24 and 25 September. The main focus of the visit was my participation in the United Nations summit on sustainable development. Prior to this, on my arrival in New York on Thursday, 24 September, I travelled with my delegation to Connecticut for a number of engagements, including a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams spoke about the report card. The report card for Ireland reads of many things: unemployment down from 15.2% to 8.9%, employment up by 135,000-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----interest rates down from 15% to less than 2%-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the deficit will be below 1% next year, the national debt is falling rapidly, confidence is rising, new companies are being formed, and people are returning home to take up jobs. The more people we have working, the less tax each will pay and the greater the engine we will have to invest in the provision of services, including in health.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin's report card says abolish water charges, abolish property charges, increase income tax, drive down disposable income and drive jobs out of the country. The question the people will face in the spring-----