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- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of IBRC, the Oireachtas set up a commission of investigation. That is the responsibility of the sole member dealing with that issue. An interim report has been received. I happen to be the Minister in the Department who has received that report. That is my function to receive it. I hope to publish the interim report by Mr. Justice Cregan this week.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have only got Thursday and Friday. I want to publish it in good time. I have to get authorisation that it does not conflict with any existing court cases. I hope to publish the interim report by Mr. Justice Fennelly on the question of the telephone calls to Garda stations today. In respect of Northern Ireland I compliment the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have given an undertaking - I might need the Deputy's help - to set aside time in the remaining weeks of this Dáil session for a proper debate here on the outstanding reports from the Constitutional Convention. Some of the issues it raised actually required quite a deal of work in different Departments. I have given that undertaking and I hope to be able to honour it.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Bill will not be published this year. For the information of the Deputy it will obviously be in 2016.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proceeding. Working is taking place on that Bill. I have already said I hope to see it published and, hopefully if we have time, to enact it before Christmas.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Both Bills will be published this session with the drug testing and the judicial declaration of interests.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It will be next year.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is an important point that Deputy Mitchell has raised. I will discuss it with the Minister for Justice and Equality and come back to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The data sharing Bill will be published next year.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 13, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 42, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 43, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages; No. 44, Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I made it clear to the Whip that if it was the wish of Opposition parties, I had no objection to taking Leaders' Questions yesterday. However, it was felt that, given the atrocity in Paris and the requirement for a particular environment here, the arrangements should be as they were. That request came from a number of Opposition Members. It was not a direction from me that the schedule be...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the schedule was issued on Monday, no Member from any Opposition party responded to suggest it should be otherwise. Clearly, I would have been quite willing to deal with other business. I have already answered questions about Siteserv and when the matter came to the notice of the Department, but I do not know what questions Deputy Micheál Martin has submitted as I have not seen...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in a very challenging position when we inherited the economic mess that the other crowd left us with-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to produce a health system that will end the two-tier system and will have universal health care for everybody, so Deputy Adams will not have to go to America the next time he requires this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice raises a valid point. I suggest that some of those small businesses and individuals who feel they are being overcharged by banks should raise the matter with the Credit Review Office, which is an independent authority as ombudsman. I get the impression the Deputy is talking about somebody building a house in rural Ireland who does so through subcontractors or by piece...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why the Government is interested in the future of post offices and credit unions-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and the opportunity that exists for people to check the different range of opportunities that banks offer here. Whether we like it or not, we are moving towards a situation where electronic payments become more and more prevalent, and we see them everywhere now.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Whether people do business from their mobile telephone or on a credit card, it is all moving in that direction. How many people can the Deputy find in a bank any more? The machines talk back at us and so on.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy makes a valid point about businesses losing money. Businesses and their accountants should be acutely aware of the range of systems and options that are open to them. It is an important point. Whether we like it or not, in five or ten years time, we will have moved ultimately to electronic payments.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Every retailer and business should be online and every individual now buys much of their ordinary consumer goods online.