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Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Second Stage of the Bill will be taken in the House tomorrow.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the Deputy had that information, but I referred to it when I announced the Order of Business. He can take it that the Bill will be discussed tomorrow.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I believe the Deputy was referring to a sum of €6 million for the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar because the figure he mentioned was astronomical. I assume he meant to refer to millions rather than billions.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Damien English, is dealing with the apprenticeship Bill and due to report to the relevant Cabinet sub-committee on 23 or 27 February. It will then be brought to the Government on 3 March. The Bill is on its way.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The final report of the expert group established to review the Mental Health Act 2001 has been completed and presented to the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, for consideration. The Deputy is correct that the programme for Government contained a commitment to review the Act of 2001. The review was to be informed by human rights standards and carried out...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Nobody wants to see patients on trolleys in hospital corridors, which is the reason the Minister established a task force to examine the issue. The problems in a few hospitals have always been worse than in others. The position in Letterkenny General Hospital has fluctuated during the years. The task force will consider the implications for Letterkenny General hospital and other hospitals....

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I expect the Bill to be published by the middle of this month. I cannot give a date of publication for the Eirgrid Bill. Some people in County Tipperary were inquiring about the Deputy. While he was not fully in favour with all of them, his name was mentioned.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will see to it that the names of the personnel who serve on the task force are published on the Department's website. The individuals in question are all experts in various clinical areas.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Medical people understand best-----

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The important Bill to which the Deputy refers is due for publication in this session.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The aftercare Bill, the child care Bill is listed for this session. Work is already under way on drafting that. On the water Bill, as the Deputy is aware, very few Bills were actually guillotined last year and there is no intention of guillotining any Bill. I think the number was only three for the entire year of 2014. There is no intention of guillotining Bills, or as the Deputy says,...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Higgins is aware, in Lough Mask House, Captain Boycott brought down the forces of an occupying State to deal with the issues of corn and the collection thereof. It is a very different process than what is involved here.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: A couple of minutes ago, the Deputy's colleague was calling for the abolition of Irish Water and of water charges. Now he is asking me when the Bill is going to come before the House and what it will contain. I said to Deputy Boyd Barrett that it will be along in due course in the next few weeks and the Minister will outline for the House exactly what it will contain.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I hope that in the meantime many more people will register and agree to make their contribution of €1.15 per week and €3 for week, as a contribution to developing our country and for citizens who have no access to clean water, who must endure inferior pipework-----

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and get up every morning and boil the water for the next few years. It is not satisfactory.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: In Dingle they know that very well.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I did not belittle the people down in Mullingar hospital. Far be it from me to do that. In fact, I complimented the front-line staff on the way they do their duty under difficult circumstances. I was referring to comments that had been made about people falling off trolleys there, which upset the nursing staff greatly.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes, they did.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am not saying it was made in the House, but that the comment was made and nursing staff were very upset about it, and rightly so, because it did down their professional competence to look after people at the front line. I will have to come back to Deputy Troy regarding the health reform legislation. In respect of the national vetting bureau, I cannot give a date for the commencement of...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Dooley is well aware, and I have heard his comments, this was the subject of intensive questioning here earlier to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. No formal offer has been lodged yet by IAG in respect of Aer Lingus, so I am precluded from making any comment on statements that I have read as to what is actually included in a presentation issued by IAG. As Deputy...