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Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have gone beyond talking and are now moving to the action stage.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: That will be later this year. There are a few matters we are to attend to in Northern Ireland at the same time, including minimum pricing and so on. I will advise the Deputy later.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Bill is due this session so I expect the report will go to the Minister for Education and Skills shortly. I understand that despite the initial hiccups, there has been some progress. I hope the matter can be concluded. It was an important priority for the Government, following the demise of a plant in Waterford some years ago, that there would be a technological university in the south...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for that. Perhaps Deputy Butler could raise the issue during the course of a discussion on Northern Ireland matters.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 1, motion re proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain acts in the field of police co-operation and judicial co-operation in criminal matters; No.37, Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 38, Sport Ireland Bill 2014 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages;...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill is due this session. On the question of guidance counsellors and the reform of the junior certificate, the Minister for Education and Skills has given her views in respect of the junior certificate. I will raise the question of guidance counsellors with her, but the decision was very clear, namely, to allow them to have greater freedom at...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the mental capacity Bill, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill was published on 17 July 2013 and provides a series of options to support people with impaired capacity to make decisions and to exercise their basic rights in line with the principle of the UN convention. It undertakes a comprehensive reform of existing legislation governing capacity and is awaiting...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: No, the Bill was only published in July 2013. Committee Stage is awaited in the House. Another key task which is under way involves examining how the issue of reasonable accommodation can be achieved in a meaningful way within our constitutional framework, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. The House may be aware that the Supreme Court in an Article 26 referral dating from 1998 found it...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is time now to get on with dealing with this. The Government, having listened very carefully to people-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----set a charge of €1.15 per week or €3. The man who stopped me with the two pints in his hand last week-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----shouting about the cost of water that he could not pay-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: What he was holding in his hands would pay for water for him - because I know him - for nearly ten weeks.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is a most distressing condition that people find themselves in. Everybody in the House knows families or people whose loved ones or family members are so afflicted, and I know many myself. We waited ten years for a strategy on dementia to be produced. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, brought that forward after extensive consultation and published it before Christmas,...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: As I said, the Minister of State launched the national dementia strategy in December, after we had waited ten years. I pay tribute to the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland for its contribution and for the part it played in the development of that strategy over a period. There are 50,000 people afflicted by dementia. As I said, a very substantial amount, about €27 million, is being...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: I reject Deputy Adams's assertion that this Government is not interested in people who work on lower wages. I point out to Deputy Adams that the live register figures for today, 1 April, show that the standardised unemployment rate has now decreased to 10%. Deputy Adams will recall that when he was first elected to the House, he was one of those who spouted constantly about the numbers of...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: It seems to me as if Deputy Adams is content to leave people with inferior water with 40 plus towns emptying raw sewage into lakes and rivers for the foreseeable future. I am not prepared to stand for that.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am prepared to see fixed the 30,000 leaks through which many litres of water are being lost every day. It is being wasted. Let me be clear to Deputy Adams on the question about the banks. This Government did not fix and restructure the banking system for the benefit of bankers. It is for the benefit of customers.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputies opposite may well laugh, but the fact is that this issue is central to the economic catastrophe that was allowed to befall the people.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: We had to restructure those banks and recapitalise them. That has happened. They are now back in profitability and they are paying lower interest rates on the money they have to borrow.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Enda Kenny: The point is that we did not fix those banks for the benefit of the banks but rather for the customers.