Results 12,061-12,080 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Work is under way to reform and consolidate the Domestic Violence Act 1996. It is planned that the reformed legislation will include provisions on emergency barring orders and safety orders. These reforms are needed to enable Ireland to ratify the Council of European Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, which is known as the Istanbul...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will have to investigate this for the Deputy. The Bill has been on the Seanad Order Paper since 2007 but has not moved. I will consult with the Leader of the Seanad to see what is going on over there.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is a solution to all problems in regard to people in mortgage distress, be they members of a particular sector or not. However, it requires a working out of what are termed sustainable solutions - in other words, what arrangements one can make to enable people to get on with their lives without having a crushing weekly burden. It requires an engagement between both the lender and the...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the publication of that Bill, but I will advise the Deputy on its state of progress.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Sometimes briefings get in the way of leaks.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Briefings get in the way of leaks, sometimes.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I expect it to be published formally in the next two to three weeks. There will be a discussion in the House on Government time. The family relationships Bill is for this session. I do not have a date for Deputy Martin for the legislation on stem cell research. I cannot give a date in respect of public hospitals becoming autonomous. This is a matter of the involvement of various groups...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Both Bills are for this session. Deputy Adams's first point related to the IMO and negotiations. This is being dealt with by the Minister of State, Deputy White. It is not a negotiation process, it is a consultation and engagement process. The difference relates to formal negotiation status and formal negotiation rights. The Minister is keen to have a full, comprehensive, thorough and...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government has to consider the reports of the Constitutional Convention within a six-month period and give its view and response to the claims or proposals made by the convention. In all cases where the convention recommends a change to the Constitution a referendum will be required. I answered a question from Deputy Healy earlier about public housing and the pressure on for housing at...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is a Private Members' motion on the matter today and tomorrow. The Government has put down an amendment to the motion. There are clearly opportunities for An Post to do new business in new ways. An Post won a contract from the Department of Social Protection which is worth €50 million a year. However, there is clearly a need to shake up the way that An Post works as well as...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The people who use banks generally put their child benefit and pension payments into banks. The people who have tended to use post offices are those who have not had bank accounts. There is an opportunity here for the postal service to consider in many new ways what post offices can actually do. It requires a change in digital culture and training and new ways of doing new business.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Kirk mean when quotas go?
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Kirk is aware, when they go Ireland will have one of the most productive dairy sectors in the world or on the planet. A considerable amount of money is moving through banks for investment in land, acquisition, leasing of land and the purchase of land because of the importance of this. There is no need for transitional regulatory arrangements as far as I am aware but I will have...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is due for publication in this session. I agree with the sentiments expressed by Deputy Durkan. The employment permits Bill was cleared by the Cabinet some weeks back. There are some minor technical amendments that must be made and I expect it to be published by mid-March.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I said, this is an important issue. While there was heightened expectation that this might happen, on 6 February Speaker Boehner expressed doubt in that regard. It is clear from the outcome of the discussions that the upcoming District Level primary contests and the November Congressional elections are proving to be the dominant factors in Republican party thinking. This was confirmed...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 13, Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Second Stage (Resumed). Private Members' Business shall be No. 135, motion regarding Post Office Network. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit at 10 a.m. tomorrow; that statements on allegations in regard to An Garda Síochána shall be taken at that time and...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Oral Questions to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes.