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- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Peaceful protest in this country is perfectly legitimate but it is not legitimate to stop people from going about their duty and their work. The gardaí have had to be called in a number of cases where much more than peaceful protest took place. In other locations around the country, I have had evidence that where work started in some estates, people suddenly arrived to protest. I have...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Evictions and people being removed from their homes are very traumatic incidents. As I said, if the Deputy gives me the details, we will look at that. The Deputy said we do not need water meters to have good water, and that is true. However, the taxpayers of this country are paying €1.2 billion to produce that water. We cannot have a situation where people can expect to have a free...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The contractors who are subcontracted to Irish Water will not go onto private property unless they are invited to do so. When the situation kicks in where the first leak between the meter and the edge of the house will apply, obviously, the recommendation is to fix that free. Water meters are on the public thoroughfare, and they are there because water paid for by the public is going...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: She does not have to inform me of every appointment made to every board. In the case of chairmen of boards, the Government changed the rules and chairmen must come before the relevant Oireachtas committee to see what the applicant brings to the board. I am not informed of every individual appointment made for non-remunerated positions on State boards, where there are thousands of positions...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Every Minister will set out the criteria, the qualifications and the skills necessary to serve on all of the boards under his or her responsibility. That information will all be posted on www.stateboards.ieand the public will have full transparency and accountability there. Every person appointed must be independently assessed and verified. In regard to commercial semi-State boards, where...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not a complex issue. No, John McNulty was not the only person I interviewed. Some of the 29 approached me themselves and I spoke to them about their views as to whether they might be considered. John McNulty was one person to whom I gave a lengthy interview, because of the fact that Deputy McGinley-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----had announced his proposed retirement. It is not complex. The Fine Gael Party set up a structure within its executive council of a sub-committee to deal with all of the names put forward.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: That sub-committee prepares a case for those candidates it thinks are very good. The sub-committee did that. The point I made when answering questions here yesterday was that after I spoke to John McNulty, the process kicked in for validation within that structure and that the executive council was not reported to nor informed, nor was I. Yes, I said he was a good candidate, he is a good...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----for nomination to the Seanad-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----when he would have been appointed to the board of IMMA, if the Deputy lets me answer. As I said to the Deputy, Mr. McNulty himself said this morning that he did not know that he was going to be the candidate when he was appointed to IMMA by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in her own right as Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The CV was prepared by Fine Gael personnel in Fine Gael headquarters and forwarded to the Minister by personnel. The point I am making is simple. The system that was in place was flawed and has not worked. I have changed that and we are moving on to a much broader reform policy to deal will all public appointments.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Some of the people on the Fianna Fáil side who approached me in the past three months about personnel they wanted appointed to various boards might now reflect on what is happening on that side as well.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The point is the system is flawed. I have accepted responsibility on my watch. Standards slipped and I am unhappy about that. John McNulty himself spoke out clearly and cogently about this yesterday. I am fixing the process internally and that is a matter for Fine Gael. In the broader sense, for the country, we are moving on to a big reform programme where we will put an end to the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: If Members want a lengthy debate on this issue some time, we will give that to them.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has taken a wrong line again. I spoke to Mr. John McNulty about his capacity to be considered for nomination to the Seanad. When I gave my imprimatur to indicate we should consider nominating him, the Fine Gael system of validating candidates took over from there. We had already set up, internally in the party, a sub-committee of the executive council to consider names for...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Because they took it upon themselves to do that. It is a case of having accepted responsibility, having apologised for standards having slipped and of doing something about it and fixing it in general.Therefore, I do not accept the Deputy's assertion at all. The position here, which I made perfectly clear, was that the appointment to the board should not have happened because Mr. McNulty...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The point is that those associated with the internal mechanics of IMMA then said that if a person is nominated for the Seanad, he must stand down from the board. I have accepted that in a general way as Head of Government and through fixing the internal mechanics of Fine Gael Party business, which is not a matter for here. Yesterday, the Government made a decision to have a new framework,...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----when the flaw in the system allowed for people to be pilloried as cronies. If Deputy Martin wants a debate of considerable length on what happened in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----he should have it when matters are less pressing in respect of the changes we have to make to get our country right. He and I must deal with the fragile situation in Northern Ireland, and the Government must deal with the budget in just ten days. We have to deal with a range of challenges for our country.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have accepted responsibility.