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- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The second Bill referred to will be introduced next year. Legislation relating to construction was passed by the House and the agency to be established under its provisions will be set up within the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is taking advice on the matter. If necessary, he will bring forward amending legislation. It is not yet clear as to whether such legislation will actually be required.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The landlord and tenant Bill is expected in the middle of next year. I will contact the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, to establish the position with regard to the revised regulations to which the Deputy refers.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The process relating to the legislation is very well advanced. It was on the list for this session and I would say that it will be published early in the next session.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: What is going to happen is that the commission will be established on a non-statutory basis immediately. Provision has been made to facilitate this in the relevant Estimate and the legislation will follow.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: That must be a fast piece of legislation, particularly as it has already undergone pre-legislative scrutiny. The white flag has been raised.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Tomorrow we will have Question Time, Leaders' Questions, the Order of Business and Committee and Remaining Stages of the Water Services Bill 2014. The House will, in addition, sit on Friday to continue the debate on the Water Services Bill.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will get back to the Deputy on the legislation to introduce the integrated care agency.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Committee Stage of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 will be taken early in the new year. The reason for the delay is that the advanced directive protocols, for which we are waiting 20 years, had to be written. The fair deal review is under way. In addition to the normal allocation of 515 beds per month, an extra 1,000 have been released. The waiting list is down from 18...
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: That extra €25 million means better home care packages, enhanced care packages and so on. The review of the fair deal scheme will be brought to the Minister's attention as soon as it is concluded. As I said, 1,000 extra beds have been released in addition to the normal 515. The waiting list, I understand, is up as far as 4 December.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Bill being taken in committee in the new year will be the most advanced and up-to-date of its type. As I said, the reason it was delayed was the requirement to draw up the protocols in respect of the advanced directive. The progress made in this regard will bring us much further down the road we wish to go. The criminal justice (offences relating to information systems) Bill is due in...
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I had to look twice when I saw Deputy Deasy changing seats. It was because his microphone was broken but, for a moment, it looked like he was moving to be closer to Deputy Peter Mathews.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is a fundamentally important issue for the agricultural sector and for young farmers all over the country. I will bring the Deputy's proposal to the attention of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I listened to the president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association speaking about this recently. It is something that is of great importance nationally. The Deputy...
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are awaiting the report on the review of the Mental Health Act. The review is complete, but the report has not been presented. We expect that to happen very soon. The expert group will be set up following our receipt of that report.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Murphy is asking me specific questions about details of contracts.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the answers to her questions.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will take the Deputy's questions, though, and find the answers for her from Irish Water.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I recall, the only discussions we have had at Cabinet sub-committee meetings about that was that there would be regional contracts awarded for the installation of meters and that those contractors would be entitled to employ subcontractors and that there would be a requirement that a 25% allocation would come off the live register, that is, people who might have been involved in the...
- Appointment of Minister of State (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I wish to announce for the information of the Dáil that the Government yesterday assigned Deputy Ann Phelan to be Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government with special responsibility for local community rural economic development issues, including implementation of the CEDRA report. This is in addition to her existing responsibilities as...
- Appointment of Minister of State (10 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: As Deputies are aware, there is a €2.5 billion allocation for rural Ireland in the rural development programme.