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Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Martin agrees with this but others do not. They object to it. This was agreed by the CPP and we are putting it through.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: On Deputy Adams's comment on committees, the Government has to introduce the changes here.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will not listen. He never listens.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: He is the one who says nobody else listens.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin opposed Friday sittings for the purpose of bringing in Private Members' Bills. The communication received here is from the Technical Group and it says: "Further to our conversation please find herein the changes to committee memberships that the technical group would like to make."

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It continues: "Health and children, Mattie McGrath to be replaced by Clare Daly; sub-committee on child and youth affairs, Mattie McGrath to be replaced by Clare Daly also; transport and communications and associated select committees, Mattie McGrath to be replaced by Mick Wallace." That is the communication the Government must present here. Deputies Martin and Adams are opposing that. The...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will be very happy to take the details of the pensioner Deputy Joan Collins has mentioned. Someone who has earned a contributory pension has paid for it and it is his or her entitlement. In dealing with the massive expenditure in the Department of Social Protection the people in it have a duty to see to it that the payments made are in order. That is the reason this year it is expected...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: In response to the Deputy's first question, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has introduced serious changes to the process in dealing with public representatives, both Oireachtas and non-Oireachtas, as part of the general changes to the public pay scheme.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: These changes are in place for everyone to see. I am interested in the case mentioned by the Deputy of the good lady who has been in receipt of a contributory pension for a considerable time. If I understand the Deputy correctly, the lady in question was contacted by the Department to verify that she was still in receipt of her pension. The question is: why, following that intervention,...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 24a, motion re Standing Orders 38, 39 and 124; No. 24b, motion re membership of committees; No. 1, Local Government Reform Bill 2013 - amendments from the Seanad; and No. 6, ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. 24a and 24b shall be...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: We have had discussions and questions here over the past several years about what is different. Since coming into government, many of the political and financial carpets we have lifted have been infested with maggots.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This Government is in the business of clearing up of a legacy untold proportions. We are now into section 38 and section 39 bodies. I assure the Deputy, the House and the public that, after what is happening in the charities area, the sector will come through to a much safer and a more justifiable, accountable and transparent system. It will be the case that everyone who donates to the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am sure Deputy Adams is as interested as everyone else that transparency and accountability be had right across the board in respect of all charities. The regulatory authority will be in place by Easter. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform sanctioned the appointment of an interim chief executive officer. That position will be filled by the end of February. One of the early...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: For the Deputy’s information, the Charities Act was enacted in February 2009 by the former Administration but no regulator was appointed. When the Charities Bill was published in 2007, the then Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, said: ... the Government is committed to protecting both charitable organisations and the public...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am telling the Deputy the truth of the matter. Arrangements for the implementation of the Act had to be examined in detail and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, has brought forward his proposals on how best to implement them. A consultation process was carried out between the Department of Justice and Equality, the public and the charities sector on the Charities Act...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: First, I did not refuse to answer Deputy Martin’s question at all. I said that the detail of the question asked was not available to me and I confirmed that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government had formally written to the chief executive of Irish Water seeking all aspects of the remuneration policies in respect of the people who work for Irish Water, and I...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I did not refuse to answer the Deputy’s question. When the information is supplied by Irish Water it will be made public in everybody’s interest.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin does not stand by his own word. He is the person who said that members of his party who were afraid to face the people would not walk away with pay-outs and he did not live up to his word. I am telling Deputy Martin the truth. I do not have the answer to the question he asked. I will not put him or anybody else in a particular position by making a claim that I cannot stand...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am sorry-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin sat on the Government side of the House with people who walked away with substantial bonuses.