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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have pointed out to the Deputy that the discussions took place within that context and that it was right and proper that they took place. I have commented on-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have made the point that it was not appropriate then to speak about the contingency plans; it is not appropriate now to speak about the details of either and I do not intend to do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is here. He is on hallowed ground.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his questions. Obviously, the situation around the table at the European Council meeting was one of great seriousness in respect of what has been happening here in recent years. When we saw the first evidence of people losing their lives because of illegal trafficking across the Mediterranean, the efforts made by Italy in particular under the Mare Nostrum programme to...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice raised a general point about transplants. It is a matter for people who may wish to supply organs for transplant, which is a very good thing to do. Not everybody has the courage or mentality to do that but it is something which is being constantly promoted and which I support. I am aware of the situation concerning Dr. David Hickey. The pancreatic transplant service...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I resent the Deputy's comment about bits of paper. If the Minister for Health wishes to give the detail of an issue raised by the Deputy here, it is only right and appropriate that he does so. I am well aware of the change from Beaumont Hospital to St. Vincent's University Hospital and that the new programme is due to commence very shortly. There are difficulties in recruiting transplant...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose take Questions 1 to 34, inclusive, together. For some time but certainly over the past four months, the European agenda has been dominated first by the negotiations over Greece's financial situation and now by the migration crisis which has seen such dreadful human suffering as people flee war and insecurity in search of a better life. It is no surprise that these two themes were...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I note the Deputy's comment about fund-raisers. It shows the extent of the priority that his leader and deputy leader attach to this House that they decide to exit to the United States for a fund-raiser which is very much in excess of anything I might have attended myself.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: There will be no statues to my glory or otherwise. If that is where the Deputy's interest lies I ask him not to talk to me, please. I am happy to outline the context in which all of this happens. The reality, as the Deputy well knows, is that for a prolonged period in 2011 and 2012 there was massive instability in the eurozone with the economic circumstances that applied in a number of...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: It would have been grossly irresponsible and negligent of the Government not to have done so in the face of clear warnings and signs of being blocked from capital markets, money moving out the country and so on. It was not appropriate to make any of the contingency plans that were being put in place public at that time, for very good reasons. Even today it is not appropriate to provide the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: As everybody knows, as a small open economy we are dependent upon exports and imports and we would have been particularly vulnerable to a breakup of the euro. Those contingency plans covered policy issues, including legislation, logistics, security, the role of the banking sector, international relations and communication to the public.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Emergency structures to manage that crisis, to be overseen by Government, were designed and designed very carefully and would have been activated if necessary. That work was carried on in secret by a small number of officials from the Department of Finance, the Department of the Taoiseach, the Central Bank and the National Treasury Management Agency. Given the scale of what might have...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Maybe Deputy Doherty did not listen to me in the House. What I did say was that the context of these discussions took place against a background where there was a very serious set of economic circumstances applying right through 2011 and 2012. The discussions that took place within those circumstances warranted putting in place a strategy that would deal with an eventuality where the euro...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Those contingency plans, as I said, covered all of those issues. There was a possibility of an abrupt change from the currency of the euro in its current form to something else and consideration of what the Government would have to do and might have to do in terms of legislation, security, logistics, and all of these issues that affect the normal running of any country. It is in that...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: This matter has been clarified and has been put to bed.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have referred to this issue on a number of occasions in the recent past. A number of issues need to be dealt with in respect of housing generally, including homelessness, whether of rough sleepers or those who do not have a place to stay because they are being put out of their accommodation. A great deal of work has been done on the issue. The Minister for Finance and the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have said I hope the discussions between the Minister for Finance and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government can be concluded satisfactorily this week. They will deal with a number of matters in the shorter term. Arrangements must be put in place to deal with the provision and supply of housing in the medium to longer term. As the Deputy is aware, the Minister,...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: There are issues that need to be addressed in the immediate term. The Ministers are discussing them and I hope they can conclude their discussions this week. The issue of housing supply is critical, but it is not possible to deal with it overnight.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: It may well be that legislation is required and if so, it will be introduced. At the other end of the scale, there has been announcement after announcement of jobs and investment. This is obviously creating pressure in other areas in terms of the provision of both commercial and residential accommodation. This does not solve the problem for the person who is under pressure this evening,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Data (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: My Department received 258 Freedom of Information requests from January to October this year, of which 54 are currently ongoing for which replies will issue in due course. Of the remaining 204 requests, replies issued to 121 requests issued within four weeks of the receipt of the request. Of the remainder, some had the deadline extended under the Act where search and retrieval costs...