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- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: These areas are part of the discussion with the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Assuming the Government signs off on this tomorrow with the Minister for Justice and Equality, we will be able to appoint a Referendum Commission and give it plenty of time to do its work. The Government will meet on the question of the wording tomorrow.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I cannot believe the Deputy is asking me to withdraw a Bill which we have awaited for 60 years.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I disagree.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Magdalen Bill published before Christmas will be taken here in the next few weeks. It has been very well accepted and supported by the vast majority of the women who went through the Magdalen laundries. As I said earlier, the Government is fully committed to implementing all Mr. Justice Quirke's recommendations. The relief and acceptance on the part of those women of the State's...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: A great deal of work is being done on it. Measures on aspects such as advertising and minimum unit pricing will be dealt with by regulation. Sponsorship, marketing and advertising are receiving much attention and we discussed the issues on Monday at a Cabinet sub-committee. We will make a decision on that element of it in the near future.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy refer to the Construction Contracts Act 2013? It has been enacted already.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy talking about the building control Bill?
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is due later this year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: The questions are irrelevant. We are in a very different space now and all appointments to any State board are first advertised on www.stateboards.ie. Any person anywhere in the country who wishes to apply for any of these positions must apply through that website, meet the criteria set out there, be vetted, and have his or her credentials verified as suitable for appointment to the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I did not see the whole programme either. I saw a bit of it and I saw enough as I was here at the time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I was around for all of what happened except the demolition of the bird and the delights that took place under the tablecloth over the man's head. I do not know if that happened in reality or not. Far be it for me to comment on the memoirs of the eminent Mr. Walshe who wrote and wrote well on educational matters from the other side of the fence for a very long time. I would not deign to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: They are his personal views and we are now in a very different space. Thanks be to God, it is all vetted now by the Public Appointments Service the way that it should be.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 46, statements on Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members' business which shall be No. 187, motion re junior certificate exam structures, shall take place on the conclusion of Topical...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Martin's comment on taxes, that is clearly a matter for consideration as we move into preparation of the budget and I will not comment on it now. It is important to say that the Government has set out the fact that it wants to have an economic statement towards the end of spring which sets out the challenges on the road ahead. I would like to think the House would have...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 9, inclusive, together. The National Economic and Social Development Office, NESDO, is the body corporate for the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, and the only State agency under the aegis of my Department. The board of the NESDO comprises the chair and deputy chair of the NESC, both of whom are civil servants from my Department serving in an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputies Adams and Boyd Barrett raised the question of Westbank Orphanage and Bethany Home. I note that there is a letter in today's edition of The Irish Times regarding the terms of reference of the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes that was signed by survivors of the Westbank Orphanage and Bethany Home. The Westbank Orphanage is not included in the investigation...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the Archbishop of Dublin called to see me, he told me that the church had too many schools under its wing and that he wished to divest it of a number of those while clearly keeping in mind that the church would require schools with a Catholic ethos. I will give Deputy Martin the dates of the full engagement we had, the issues discussed and the philosophical bodies that are involved. ...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will send the Deputy the details.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: I did not catch what Deputy Adams said at the beginning. He made some comment about the Jewish faith.