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- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I met the Greek Prime Minister the other day and we had a discussion.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is a complex Bill. It is before the Seanad and the Government approved several technical amendments to it a fortnight ago. It will be brought here from the Seanad and I expect it to be implemented in law well before the next general election. The Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2014 is due to be published this session. The review of the fair deal scheme was promised to be provided...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2014 is due to be published this session. This morning the Cabinet approved the membership of the low pay commission and its first meeting is to take place by the end of February. It will report to the Government, probably before the summer, on all aspects of low pay, including the issue of child care workers.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Criminal Procedure Bill 2014 have been cleared. It will be the back half of the year before the Bill is produced and cleared.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the details of the abuse case mentioned by the Deputy, but I may have read some of them. I will have him advised on the options that are now open, either in respect of the whistleblowers’ legislation or the implementation of Bills already put through. It is a serious matter on which I will advise the Deputy. I commiserate with and again tender my sympathy to Roseann...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: We approved the heads of the second Bill last week at the Cabinet. It is to allow roadside testing where drugs are involved. Negotiations still are going on with the Criminal Assets Bureau in respect of some elements of the criminal Bill to which the Deputy referred.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Rihard Boyd Barrett mentioned peculiar ways of reaching unity. The seven and a half minute rant he had was about promoting marches around the country, one following the other a week later.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: When he talks about ordinary working people, here in the South unemployment has fallen from 15.2% to 10.5% and continues to drop. Some 80,000 new jobs have been created and 40,000 more will be created this year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is an opportunity to get out of social welfare dependency and deals with ordinary working people. The difference between the Stormont House agreement and the troika was that we were under the diktat of the troika, given the economic circumstances. The Northern Ireland Assembly is elected freely by the people and makes its decisions in terms of its legislative programme. The public...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Interest rates have fallen from 15% to less than 2% and the country was recently able to borrow 30-year money at 2% and raise more than €4 billion, which puts us in a very different position. If the situation reported in the programme Deputy Martin mentioned was true, if his party, my party or the Labour Party did the same, we would never hear the end of it from one end of the month...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps the president of Sinn Féin would say whether it is true and whether he has taken any action to deny it. I take both Deputies' points, that the Government should stay focused on the implementation of the agreement, and I give my word that I will do so. On the tangling over the first offer, I recall the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, talking about being present...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 38, Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014 - Report and Final Stages (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event that a division is in progress at the time fixed for taking Private Members’ business, which shall be No. 68, Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Second Stage, Standing Order...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have decided on priorities for 41 pieces of legislation for this session. I do not have dates for the Health Information Bill 2014 or the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill 2015, but I will advise Deputy Micheál Martin on the progress made in developing the heads of these Bills. The Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Damien English, is dealing with the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked about a savage austerity attack in Northern Ireland, an area of high unemployment. Since the Troubles, the public sector has pumped money into Northern Ireland because of the high rates of unemployment arising from the Troubles. The best answer to that problem is the creation of jobs, which means investing to make the place attractive to foreign direct investment and give...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I wish Mitchel McLaughlin well in his appointment as Speaker, which is an important position in the Assembly. I am sure he will do a very good job. The Ceann Comhairle had considerable association with Speaker Hay and they are responsible for the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. I hope this body will gain in influence, authority and respect. This is an important legacy that Deputy...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have heard many comments from Sinn Féin spokespersons saying they blocked austerity in Northern Ireland, but clearly the budget and its implementation is a matter for the parties in the Northern Ireland Executive. The role and responsibility of this Government and the British Government in regard to the matters that are the subject of the Stormont House Agreement is to work with the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy does not support that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: For that reason, I reject what she said about the gardaí operating in a political fashion here. They have a job to do that is very difficult and it is not being helped by some of the clients that I see on the streets. It might be far more in their interest if they looked around the country to see the many places that have inferior water and that have no facilities in terms of being...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: We cannot deal with those challenges unless we have a system of investing to fix and investing for the future. All those people could help in their own small way. A man approached me with two pints in his hands complaining about the charge. I reminded him that one pint would pay for his water as a single person for a couple of weeks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 23, inclusive, together, as they relate to the Stormont House Agreement, and the remaining questions are different. I recall that when I answered questions on Northern Ireland in October last, the British and Irish Governments had just confirmed their intention to convene all-party talks. Since then the political landscape in Northern Ireland has...