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- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is an issue of grave concern to people in houses affected by pyrite, and a resolution is needed. This matter has been around for a long time but no one did anything about it. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has introduced the Pyrite Resolution Bill to move the matter on and show the people affected that the Government is actually acting in their...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The reason the Bill is going through is that it is necessary to transfer the assets and the liabilities to Irish Water by 1 January 2014. I remind Deputy Martin-----
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that while his party might have favoured privatisation for several reasons, it is specifically written into this legislation that it would require a change of government policy and would have to be approved by the Oireachtas.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: There will be other Bills dealing with elements of water services which will be introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. This Bill deals with the transfer of assets and liabilities------
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is necessary that the Bill be approved by 1 January 2014. I am sure Deputy Ó Snodaigh does not want to be here next week or the week after.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: They must be transferred by 1 January 2014 and that is why we are dealing with the Bill this week.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: We will continue this process. When banking union is fully in place by the second half of next year, we will continue to make the case for implementation of the decision made on 29 June last year which still stands and which has been clarified on a number of occasions. At every opportunity the European Council has discussed it and the decision stands. That is an issue we can only deal...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure whether Deputy Peter Mathews gave Deputy Joan Collins that supplementary question, but the Government has not thrown in the towel. I have made it perfectly clear that there is a process that has to be gone through before we can deal with the specific negotiations. If the Deputy thinks one can go to a European Council meeting and say to 27 other leaders, "By the way, I want a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----she is very naïve about the way in which negotiations are conducted.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The fact of the matter is that for a number of years when the warning signs were there and they were indicated by this party in opposition-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----the Government of the day failed to listen and act and put the noose around the neck of every single person in the country and lost 330,000 jobs in the process.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: We are going to clean up the mess. It might surprise Deputy Joan Collins to hear that from 1 January this year we had to deal during the six months of the Irish Presidency of the European Union with CAP reform, the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, the banking union negotiations, the abortion legislation, the promissory notes, the Magdalen laundries, Priory Hall, the preparation of a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: This has been a good year for the people in dealing with much of the atrocious economic and social mess left behind by the previous Administration. We have not thrown in the towel and when banking union and the single supervisory mechanism are in place, as I said, potential retroactive applications will be decided on a case by case basis and by mutual agreement.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: That decision still stands and it is in that space that we will negotiate with our colleagues in Europe when banking union is fully in place.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: That will happen in the latter half of next year.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a10, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2014; No. 20, statements on pre-European Council meeting of 19 and 20 December; No. 5, Appropriation Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages; No. 19, Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 Seanad - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages; No. a1, Pyrite...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I agree that this will be a challenging year for the Department of Health, no more than for any other Department. I made it perfectly clear that the fact that the country has exited the bailout programme does not mean that everything is rosy in the garden. Deputy Adams, as the leader of the party of the impossible, is never going to be satisfied no matter how much is allocated to any...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: While this will be a challenging year, we expect that the Minister's philosophy of cutting costs but not front-line services will continue to be effective in the interests of patient outcomes, which is the most important element of any health service. Outcomes and the opportunities for patients to have the best level of service as close to home as possible are our focus. In the service plan...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The plan also provides €3.2 million to commence the sequential and simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant programme, with particular focus on those aged between five and six. That is an issue which Deputy Adams himself raised in this House. While we do not have all of the money to do all of the things we would like to do, these are key service initiatives which will take place in...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I agree that it is challenging for the Department of Health but it is the commitment of this Government to continue to cut costs but not services.