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- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment gave a full interview on this yesterday following the Government's meeting and decision. Eir said that it will do a further 300,000 houses in an area that it was not originally intended to include. The commercial body will do 300,000 more houses than it had originally intended. That means that the nature of the contract and...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----in good time and be completed and deal with the issues raised by Deputy Healy-Rae.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: In the second case, we cannot direct that just because a person is born in a particular location he or she should get a job there.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I accept that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure of the details of what Deputy Healy-Rae is speaking about with regard to retired teachers being accommodated. The Minister has set out the programme and funding to recruit new teachers based on demographic increases, particularly increases in school-going populations, and this is being followed through. I will have the Minister send Deputy Healy-Rae a report on what has been...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: They cannot be recruited as new teachers because they are already retired, obviously.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Given that it is a serious matter, despite the fact it is not a legislative matter I will have the Minister respond to the Deputy. Quite a number of changes have been made in respect of scoliosis and the treatment of children with scoliosis in recent weeks and the Deputy is aware of this. This is an improvement for their particular challenge and difficulties. There are still others that...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I did not say the previous Bill was at coffin Stage, I said it had got out of the coffin box. People who follow greyhound racing will know the coffin box is trap 4, right in the middle of the track.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The greyhound Bill has got out of the box it has been in the past 20 years and is now under pre-legislative scrutiny. The Technological Universities Bill is on Committee Stage in the Dáil. The Government supports this fully. It began very shortly after TalkTalk went from Waterford six years ago, and is still going on. I hope that all of the technological institute personnel can get...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The wildcat action taken last weekend was disgraceful and discommoded hundreds of thousands of people. If Deputy Mick Barry is suggesting that we should legislate for that kind of activity I disagree with him fundamentally. People in this country are entitled to go about their daily work, attend their workplace and expect that transport services can be provided. Strikes have been...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will come back to Deputy Connolly today.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: With the greatest of respect to Deputy McGrath, that matter should be considered as a topical issue. It is not a legislative function. The Minister has already made his comments in respect of the process being followed here. With respect, however, the Deputy should raise that as a topical issue whereby he will get more detailed information directly from the Minister.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Durkan that it is on Committee Stage in the Seanad.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Healy-Rae that that particular Bill has got out of the coffin box, in which it was located for a very long time, and is up and running. It was cleared early in March and was at pre-legislative scrutiny at committee yesterday. It is running and let us hope it gets around the track-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I do not have any difficulty about the meeting and I will come back to Deputy Adams as soon as I have an opportunity to do so. I would like to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to comment on the independent commission dealing with the legacy institutions-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I have, on many occasions. I will ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to the Deputy's immediate point. A meeting will take place in Belfast today.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The answer is "Yes". The amalgamation of the Financial Services Ombudsman Bureau and the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman is a priority for the Government. I expect the relevant Bill to be published during this session. The matter to which the Deputy referred will have to be addressed in the Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, it is not for me to order criminal investigations. Where illegal activities are proven to have taken place, the full force of the criminal law is behind those who have illegal acts perpetrated against them. In other words, the criminal law will rightly apply in all cases where illegal activity has taken place.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm that the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, attended last Monday's meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. He has attended all the Foreign Affairs Council meetings. Syria has always been on the agenda. From an Irish point of view, the Minister has been very forthright in his comments at these meetings. The entire UN, which was created for a world that no longer exists,...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I note the comments by the Governor in respect of the tracker mortgages, including that consideration be given to follow through in regard to some of the activities that have gone on in this area. Nobody wants to see people lose their homes. The number of mortgages in distress has fallen substantially from what it was a number of years ago because of the various options put in place by...