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- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am informed that Pobal has provided applicants with detailed information about the process of lodging an appeal. Some 155 applications were received and there is a fund of €8 million. Three did not meet the basic criteria and Pobal assessed these. The list including amounts received has been published. The Deputy has a basic philosophy of have enough money to give to everybody.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is the same philosophy that applied across the health boards for years-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----where Fianna Fáil forked out money it never had to deal with all kinds of organisations.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am not suggesting that any of these organisations did not and do not have a very good contribution to make.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: There were 155 applications. The €8 million fund-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will respond in English so that everybody will understand this. What the Deputy has just said is typical of the reasons that we are not as bilingual as we should be. The Deputy is suggesting that neither the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, nor the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, is capable of learning our native tongue or relearning it as the case may be. I think it is an insult...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, and the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, by their example of immersing themselves in the language to be conversationally fluent will demonstrate to a great number of people throughout the country that it is quite easy to learn the Irish language. Beidh an líofacht acu tar éis tamaillín bhig. I advised the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: Is it not a good thing to say, "I am as Irish as anybody else, but my líofacht in my native tongue is not at the proficiency that it should be, but I'm going to learn it"? I remember the former Minister of State, Mr. Carey, from County Clare, whose Irish was long gone, went back and relearnt it. I remember the former Minister of State and Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the late lamented Jim...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: I know the Deputy's interest in the language and he knows mine. I want him to understand that the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, will prove and demonstrate that he will be able to come into this House or anywhere else and engage conversationally as Gaeilge with the líofacht that it deserves.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams said that the Office of An Coimisinéir Teanga has been absorbed into another entity. I make the point to him that the Government reversed that decision and left the office of An Coimisinéir Teanga with its neamhspleáchas, with adequate staff and adequate funding because of the extraordinary work done by an iar-Aire Stáit, an Teachta Donncha Mac Fhionnlaoich....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has asked me to ensure full transparency and obtain the Department's response and I will. The funding scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector aims to provide multi-annual funding to national organisations. The funding scheme began in 2011 and was due to expire in December 2013. It was then extended to the end of June this year with a new...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: Of course it is not satisfactory to you.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: Regarding No. 98, we do not have a date for that. I think it will be next year before that Bill comes in. A good deal of work has been done in respect of No. 96 dealing with the mobility allowance. The heads of the Bill have not been cleared by Government yet but it will be published before the end of this year.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the upward-only rent review, we had constitutional advice that it was impossible to legislate for that. I have said that on many occasions in the House. Regarding the position about the concert events, the Minister, Deputy Kelly, has made known his intention to change the law to put a proper system in place to ensure that what happened-----
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----should not happen in the future. At the same time we do not want to do down the right to hold smaller events around the country in terms of them being too restricted. As the Minister pointed out on many occasions, the reduction in trolley waiting times is always an issue in every hospital, as Deputy Healy-Rae is aware. These situations flare up at different times. Nobody wants to see...
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not usual to have a debate in the House about the appointment by the Government of Ministers of State, although it is something to which I do not object. Ministers will be subject to a lot of public comment. The first action of the Minister of State appointed to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has been to book in for a refresher course in Oideas Gael-----
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in Gleann Cholm Cille, which will help the Minsters to be able to debate the issues that matter with Deputy Ó Cuív on TG4, Raidió na Gaeltachta or any other forum. It is an example, as I saw previously in this House over the years, of somebody whose Irish might be a bit rusty getting back into action and bringing it up to standard.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is no date for its publication but if neighbours are being unduly unruly or causing social disruption, there is a way of dealing with that in terms of having them moved out.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is an important Bill, which is on Committee Stage in the Seanad. There are quite a number of amendments to it on which some legal work has been done. I assume, given where we are this week, that it will be the next session before it is passed by both Dáil and Seanad.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business is No. 7, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the draft Commission of Investigation (Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014; and No. 20, Court of Appeal Bill 2014 - Committee and Remaining Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall...