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- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re referral to select committee of the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, to be found on a Supplementary Order Paper; No. 16, motion re leave to introduce a Supplementary Estimate - Vote 33; No. 17, motion re referral of the Supplementary Estimate on Vote 33 to the select sub-committee; No. 18, Irish...
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We lost time here because of a series of objections to your good self, a Cheann Comhairle, and the ruling you gave in respect of Standing Orders. The Opticians Board has to be subsumed into the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. This has to go through the Dáil and it has to go through all Stages in the Seanad. It is an urgent piece of legislation dealing with a critical...
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Nuair a bheidh an cinneadh déanta ag an Rialtas, beidh díospóireacht anseo sa Dáil againn, taobh istigh de choicís sílim.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not proposed to hold a referendum in respect of a right to water being enshrined in the Constitution. We live in a democracy and as far as I understand, no party or individual in the House favours privatisation of our water system. Any party that decides it does favour privatisation can put in its manifesto that it stands for this. The Fine Gael Party does not stand for it; the Labour...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 11, inclusive, together. The Government has implemented a programme of constitutional reform. There have been six referendums held since we took office, namely, on investigative powers for Oireachtas committees; judges' remuneration; the fiscal stability treaty; children; abolition of the Seanad; and the establishment of the Court of Appeal. Of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams raised a question on Israel being in breach of international law and asked about the upgrading of the Palestinian mission to Ireland arising from the 1961 Vienna convention. In regard to the situation to which Deputy Micheál Martin referred, the Seanad passed a motion calling on the Government to formally recognise the state of Palestine and do everything it could at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: These are issues that always require an amount of concentrated negotiation before one can peel away problem after problem, like the layers of a vegetable, and expose the real nub of the matter, which dates back many years. On the second Iraq invasion, I could never understand why Mr. Blix was not given another six months to determine that there were no weapons of mass destruction readily...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy raised a number of issues of global importance. The entire region of the Middle East, from Afghanistan to the northern Mediterranean countries, is huge and is host to tension, civil wars, slaughter, anxiety and geopolitics. The United States has withdrawn troops from Afghanistan and is considering doing so elsewhere. There are situations of conflict on the Turkish border and in...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We were left with €18 billion from the International Monetary Fund, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and the Government have been able to buy out substantial elements of that at a much lower interest rate, with authorisation forthcoming from our European colleagues, with the exception of Sweden, as it recently held an election. We hope it will deal with the matter by 21...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: We should remember that in the most recent budget, income tax was reduced and the lower tax band was increased. The two lower levels of the universal social charge were eased for people, with many taken from that net. A couple with young children will see a benefit of up to €1,200 paid back to them early next year because of changes to child allowances and income tax changes. These...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It will go towards fixing the sewerage problems in Arklow and Ringsend. It will help fix the treatment works in many places around the country where the facilities are inferior. Deputy Joan Collins does not live in a place like Roscommon, where people have had to boil water for ten years.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It seems that some people want that to continue. I do not want it to continue and the Government will not allow that. We ask for the assistance of people in that regard. The Government will make its decision in the next two weeks and I hope it will be seen to be very clear, fair and affordable.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I hope the changes with the unitary board of Ervia and Irish Water will bring about a position where the mechanics of explaining their programme can go before the people.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, was in Ringsend today and has evidence of €170 million being saved for the taxpayer, and that can be invested in other schemes-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----where there are inferior facilities.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not agree with the Deputy's claim at all. She seems to think we can continue as we have done for years. I am not prepared to do that and neither is the Government. We must provide our people all over the country - consumers, householders, businesses and everybody else - with a proper infrastructure to supply quality water.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not fair that some towns are pumping raw sewage into lakes and rivers.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not fair that we are pumping wastewater to the sea when we are way beyond our environmental limits. It is not right that people in Deputy Fitzmaurice's constituency are still boiling water ten years later. Four major treatment works will be finished by the middle of next year. I hope people will not have to do that any more.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned a progressive tax system but we have one of the most progressive tax systems in the world in Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should be clear with the people. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, has written to the finance committee to point out that if it is not done this way-----