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- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Private Members’ business which shall be No. 184, motion regarding fair pay, secure jobs and trade union recognition, shall also take place immediately after the Order of Business tomorrow and shall,...
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, is dealing with the apprenticeship Bill and requested that all submissions be made by the end of March. I assume he is assessing the submissions and will obtain an update for the Deputy on when the Minister of State expects to put the Bill together. As the Deputy is aware, the Government made a further allocation in the health area recently,...
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The commitment to the introduction of universal health insurance is not being reneged on.
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin's party supports the continuation of a two-tier system.
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party supports a two-tier system and increasing income tax to make people pay more. Universal health insurance is the way forward.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's assertion. He deliberately chose to misinterpret what I have said, and what the Minister has very cogently explained. As the Deputy noted, however, these things happen. The bus routes are not being privatised. What is being opened is 10% of the market for competitive tendering.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus are entitled to tender for that 10% and to win those tenders. I cannot predict the outcome of a competitive tendering process. Last year the taxpayer provided €90 million over and above the income derived from bus services -----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: ----- and a further €90 million in respect of new buses for the fleet. The Minister has given a clear outline in respect of the workers and their rights and conditions. These issues have been subjected to intensive discussion. The strike should be called off. One of the objectives of the Labour Relations Commission negotiations was to enable the vast majority of employees to remain...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The competitive tendering process for 10% of the routes will open in mid-year. Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann will compete for those tenders and they may win them because they are already supported by the taxpayer and they have up-to-date fleets. I commend the workers in Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus on what they have done in difficult times. This year is the first time since 2008 that...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The 300 cases to which Deputy Clare Daly referred involve issues that were brought to my attention in the House or to the attention of the Minister for Justice and Equality by the Deputy, Deputy Wallace and members of the public. The vast majority of these cases have been assessed by an independent legal team. She may have information because she appears to know the outcome of the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin knows full well the situation that arose when these banks collapsed. He is also aware of the reasons for their collapse. He is further aware that the banks were restructured and that they were then recapitalised by the Irish taxpayer, not for their benefit but for that of their customers. I stated a couple of weeks ago that I am not happy with the situation whereby banks have...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I stated that AIB had passed on reductions to all its variable standard rate customers. However, there is no impediment to further work being done in respect of this matter. I am not happy with the position.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: As already stated, I am not happy with regard to the fact that the banks have not passed on the lower interest rates from which they have benefited. There is room for more work to be done. That is why we have taken the actions to which I refer and why the Minister met directly with the Governor of the Central Bank. The Government is not in a position to direct the interest rates which...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is not fair, just or equitable that Irish consumers are being charged higher interest on variable rate mortgages than their counterparts elsewhere in the eurozone.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why the Government and the Governor of the Central Bank are focused directly-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----on carrying out further work in this area.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Adams's assertion to the effect that the Government has decided to privatise Bus Éireann or Dublin Bus. Nothing could be further from the truth. The position is that the Government - in the context of an economy that is rising - wants consumers and those who use buses to have access to the very best level of service that can be made available.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Adams is well aware, the National Transport Authority, NTA, has a statutory responsibility to judge how best to balance both the direct award and the tendered public service obligation, PSO, services that are socially necessary and that relate to non-commercial bus routes. In late 2013 the NTA, in the aftermath of a wide-ranging consultation process, decided that 10% of the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Dublin Bus is perfectly entitled to tender in respect of the 10% of routes to which I refer in addition to those on which it already provides services.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: International experience indicates that competitive tendering is beneficial in the context of the provision of subsidised PSO bus services. Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will both be able to submit bids during the tendering process when it commences in the middle of this year. The two companies in question were paid in excess of €90 million in PSO supports by the taxpayer last year...