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- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government is acting on the situation.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: This issue has been raised every year for so many years between September and Christmas because of all the inactivity over the years. It is now being dealt with-----
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in the sense that for the first time in so many years there were more beds available than people who needed them, that is, those people who wanted to come off the streets and looked for a bed-----
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Galway and Waterford.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is true. I went out on inspection with the Lord Mayor of Dublin and all of the agencies and the Government responded. The Minister and Minister of State for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputies Kelly and Coffey, have given frequent updates on the progress being made. There have been many debates. I can give the Deputy all the details if he wants. I may send him a...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Tailte Éireann Bill for the amalgamation of those units were cleared on 20 January and it will now go to committee for pre-legislative discussion and analysis. The Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 is expected in the Dáil in a couple of weeks. It is going through the Seanad. The Deputy will have ample opportunity to comment on it then.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 8, Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 45, Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to be taken not later than 5.30 p.m. today and the order shall resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The data sharing and governance Bill is listed for this year and I have already answered a question by Deputy Adams on the consistency of the Government in having made a decision to send the terms of reference of a commission of investigation to a Deputy who was in litigation, for his information and not for any comment. The purpose of this was to leave nobody in doubt but that the...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Bill provides a gateway through which the Central Bank may provide confidential information to the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. There are professional secrecy obligations in EU and national law regarding such confidential documents. The draft Standing Order, which has been agreed by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, creates a process for dealing with...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The banking inquiry sought new Standing Orders alongside the Bill. Standing Orders do not come from the Government. The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis has sought the legislation on the confidential matter with which it is to deal. We cannot move the Standing Order until the Bill has been signed.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: There are obligations regarding secrecy in EU and national law. This was a specific request by the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. The Standing Order motion was not moved today because the Bill has not been signed by the President.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Tom Fleming for his comments. This is a matter of great concern to thousands of people all over the country. Over 110,000 problem mortgages have been restructured over the last period. The changes the Government has made in this context have been the most radical in many years in regard to bankruptcy, the establishment of the insolvency service, and the creation of the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree with Deputy Tom Fleming that MABS has done great work over the years and evolved to a point where it has taken on some very difficult cases for clients dealing with the banks. No case will be sorted out if there is no co-operation or agreement to engage in the first instance. Help is available for people who do not read the letters or who dump them because they are afraid to read...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I want to see Mary Gorman, John Duggan and the others involved being treated with this drug. The position is that Alexion Pharmaceuticals is charging €400,000 per annum for it. The engagement is aimed at seeing whether that price can be reduced. The Deputy previously made a point about the e-mail. We have invested €10 million to enable a number of people to be put on a...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I reject the Deputy's story. The position is that very serious matters were brought to the attention of the public and the Government following the revelations by the whistleblowers. The Guerin report was commissioned, following whcih the Government decided to set up a commission of investigation. The correspondence to which the Deputy referred has been very clear and consistent. The...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: On the contrary, it is clear what the Government had in mind. It decided to set up a commission of investigation and on the terms of reference for it. Subsequent to the Government making its decisions, it sent the terms of reference to the former Minister for Justice and Equality for his information only in order that he would be in no doubt that the Government was going to press ahead with...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is a very personal issue and I take fully on board what the Deputy has said in respect of the person involved and the letters written. I am dealing with a case that came to my attention where someone has gone to the United States for a particular form of treatment. I do not accept that the Minister, the HSE or the Government are not aware of the importance or sensitivity of this. The...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy may shake his head but he went through this himself with sensitive cases. I understand what he is pointing out about the person involved and he can be as righteously indignant as he wants from the point of view of his party-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: ------but this is about an engagement between the HSE, the Department of Health and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is charging €400,000 per year for the drug. Some ten people are on a pilot scheme and I wish the company would be more reasonable in its response to an engagement when it knows there are small numbers of people with this challenging condition. We will continue to engage...
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: For the information of the Deputy, the planning and development (No. 1) Bill is due for publication this session. Second Stage of the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will be taken in the House in the next few weeks.