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- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the National Archives (Amendment) Bill. The minerals Bill is expected to be published before the end of May. Following the publication of that Bill, the focus will shift to the preparation for the geo-thermal Bill.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of those Bills have not come to Government yet.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I can advise the Deputy of the preparatory work that has been done and how far it is advanced.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I cannot give Deputy O'Dea a precise date for the publication of the review. The Government made extra funding available so that the waiting period for families where a person has to be approved for the fair deal scheme has been reduced substantially from 18 weeks down to four to five weeks-----
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----which is very acceptable in the vast majority of cases given the administration required.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am happy to confirm that we can have a further health debate, and perhaps the Whips will make an arrangement as to when an appropriate day for that might be.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Dublin Docklands Development Authority Bill was cleared last week. Deputy Bruton has apprised me of some of the concerns in respect of the proposition mentioned by Deputy McGrath, but it is not listed for legislation.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin should look behind him before expressing his usual outrage.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Whips' meeting took place last Wednesday evening and Fianna Fáil's Whip was in attendance. A number of points were raised at that meeting. First, the Workplace Relations Bill was listed for debate this week. As there had been 238 amendments made to the Bill which was back from the Seanad, it was agreed by all of the Whips that it should be listed to be dealt with all week. As...
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: There is no point in the Deputy coming into the House and expressing his exasperation when his own spokesperson did not bother to turn up for a debate to which Fianna Fáil had agreed and in which 238 amendments to the Workplace Relations Bill had been listed to be discussed all week. The Deputy's intervention is off the mark. He should be discussing where the Fianna Fáil...
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy raises a number of points about a debate on Northern Ireland. I have prepared a motion to be circulated to party leaders opposite in respect of what happened at Ballymurphy.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I gave the Deputy my word previously that if we could get agreement on it, or if people wanted to make arrangements for an adjustment, I was very happy to have a comprehensive debate on the North. I expect to receive the replies of Deputies Gerry Adams and Micheál Martin and others shortly. On health services, we had Leaders' Questions yesterday. The Minister for Health was present...
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Obviously, health issues are of concern to everybody and are raised in the House frequently. The Deputy mentioned parliamentary questions yesterday. As I pointed out before, I answered those questions. In respect of European Council meetings, we have had pre-Council statements in the Dáil, as well as post-Council statements when many of the matters raised yesterday were discussed,...
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I can clarify it.
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: As the business listed for today has already been brought to a conclusion,-----
- Order of Business (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the sitting shall be suspended immediately after Topical Issues until 7.30 p.m., whereupon Private Members' business, which shall be No. 187 - motion re planning regulation (resumed), shall be taken and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 90 minutes. Tomorrow's business after oral questions shall be No. 34, Statute Law Revision Bill 2015 - Order for...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Those who register will be entitled to a support of €100 assistance towards that from the Department of Social Protection. For this modest contribution, people will receive a high-quality water supply which one would expect in a country as developed and developing as ours in 2015. We cannot go on with a system where thousands of people have had boil water notices for years, a...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Paul Murphy is elected by the people and good luck to him. Sometimes, however, he feels he is Julius Caesar and that he can dictate whatever he wants to do himself. I am not going to spoonfeed Deputy Paul Murphy.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I advise him to toddle along to the audio-visual room at 4 p.m. today where Irish Water will give him the answers to any questions he wishes to ask.