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- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: However, we are not happy.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We are not happy because what we want to do is to secure that recovery for all the people and have a strong economy for the benefit of the people.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams mentions golden circles and-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: First, Deputy Adams has responded to the letter that I sent him and I thank him for responding to me.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The common objective of everybody in this House of all parties and none is to have a situation where the intention of what the Government did when it set up the commission of investigation under Mr. Justice Cregan, to have a transparent, comprehensive and fully-accountable report in respect of all of the transactions in regard to which a write-off of over €10 million was involved, is...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why I sent it to Deputy Adams at an early date.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why I sent it to the Deputy as soon as I could. That is why I sent it to the other leaders of the different groupings.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I asked them for their written response because it is in everybody's interest.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have got Deputy Adams's. I have not got Fianna Fáil's. Whether they have a view or not, I do not know. Deputy Catherine Murphy's is on the way and I thank her.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government will receive those responses in writing from the Deputies. We will consider those responses and we will have a report at Government next week as to how best we should proceed to deal with the issues that Mr. Justice Cregan has raised in his interim report.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Let me repeat that it is the intention of Government to have a fully transparent, accountable and comprehensive report-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in everybody's interests on the Siteserv issue. The judge has pointed out what he considers are difficulties and problems. We want to deal with those in the most transparent and most accountable way possible. I thank Deputy Adams for his letter. Deputy Catherine Murphy's is on the way. I will await Deputy Martin's response.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We are spending €1.4 billion in this area in general. We have more resource teachers and SNAs than ever before. This is a priority for parents and for the Minister for Education and Skills. I do not accept that children should not have access to a professional assessment. Clearly, if there is a problem with a child, it is critical that he or she has access to professional...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that there delays in respect of speech and language therapy and in psychological assessment, but I would not accept at all any model under which children do not have access to professional assessments. Surely nobody knows a child better than his or her parent, and if there is a difficulty it is very important to determine what that is. There is a €1.4 billion spend, and I...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept it.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Read it out until I hear it.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Read it out until I hear it.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Read out the section where it says-----
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government still has a very clear commitment to introducing a single-tier health system. There will be no ceremony. Last week, I confirmed that the Government will not pursue the universal health insurance model assessed by the ESRI. There will not be any ceremony about it. While I will have to check the figures, I think 42 issues in the programme for Government have been completed,...
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have previously told the Deputy that we had a road map of legislation to be dealt with. The Deputy is correct that heads of the domestic violence bill were cleared in July. The recently published Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, the Court of Appeal Bill and the Children and Family Relationships Bill are all part of the road map that need to be implemented. In this country, we take...