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Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I have asked the Minister to examine the consequences of the decision by Dublin City Council to determine what is the best thing to do.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We discussed this issue at the Cabinet sub-committee yesterday. I will let the Deputy have that piece of information. I expect the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, to bring the document to the Cabinet next week and then the Deputy will have it. We will stand by this promise, at least. He will have his discussion and the opportunity to say his piece. The Minister is very interested in seeing...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the children's hospital Bill, the design team is in place and working very well. The project is on track. I cannot give a date for publication of the Bill, but it is very much under control. The sod will be turned for Central Medical Hospital next year. I do not have a date for the bail Bill. The Deputy has raised the matter on numerous occasions. I will investigate the current...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Shortly after it was elected, the Government made the decision to support the concept of a technological university for the south east, taking into account the merger of Waterford Institute of Technology, Carlow Institute of Technology and other ancillary facilities. That is the intention of Government and that was its decision. For a variety of reasons, there was a recent break-up in the...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the water services (amendment) Bill, the Government will make its views known, having listened to the people, within the next two weeks. There will be a discussion in the House arising from this. On the ESM Bill, we have made it clear that the option is open to the Government to lodge an application for retrospective capitalisation, if that is its decision, from this point on. As the...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is normally very clear, but this is quite confusing.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The medical practitioners board Bill is awaiting Committee Stage in the Seanad. The criminal justice (miscellaneous provisions) Bill is due late next year.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the Minister has met the survivors or families of the victims of the Omagh bombing.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will have the Minister confirm the position for the Deputy.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine called the beef forum together with all of the interested bodies involved. They agreed on a strategy and I hope that, arising from what they agreed to, the factories will respond to farmers' concerns. It is an issue of concern to a great number of people. One farming organisation has issued instructions to have a further protest, but I hope,...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We will have the debate on sexual abuse next Wednesday. I would like to get the views of Members as to the structure of that debate. I share the Deputy's view about its importance. As I have said on many occasions, there can be no equivocation about sexual abuse or about harbouring those who have carried out sexual abuse or are a danger to children in particular. With regard to...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

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Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: There was a party in Government some time ago which made 300 or 400 appointments in an interregnum period before an election. I would not comment on it.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The water environment Bill is due next year. I will come back to the Deputy about the social impact bonds Bill. The other Bill mentioned by the Deputy was the broadcasting (amendment) Bill. A great deal of work has been done on that Bill and I expect that it should be produced before the end of this year. I hope it can be produced by then. If not, it will be very early next year. The...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will revert to the Deputy in respect of social impact bonds and give him an update. In respect of the health reform Bill, a number of policy measures are being considered and I must update Deputy Micheál Martin and the House in that regard. The health (transport support) Bill is expected early next year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: A total of €2.5 billion was announced in the recent budget for social housing, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, is anxious to get this moving. In fact, we discussed this at a Cabinet sub-committee yesterday. Significant progress has now been made on voids here in Dublin. These are places that are boarded up but are well capable...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: What we did after 20 years of waiting was to address the issue in legislation, as was required and determined by the Supreme Court in its interpretation of the Constitution.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: That meant giving effect to legislation which applied where the life of the mother was threatened, as distinct from the health of the mother.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It filled a long-standing void whereby no Government attempted to deal with the interpretation of the Supreme Court in respect of what the people put into the Constitution.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I have said before that the question the Deputy raises will not be dealt with in the lifetime of the Government and is one for consideration by the next Government.