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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would not want to have any inequality between Deputy Boyd Barrett and Deputy Healy. I answered this question last week. It is not possible to restore the Christmas bonus. It would cost €261 million and we do not have that money. It has been gone for a number of years and will not happen now. I listen to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I hear him. I listen to those organisations. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: He is providing me with information about the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Government will honour its commitment in the programme for Government in so far as European matters about trade unions are concerned. The Deputy states that I met with representatives of the Construction Industry Federation and the Irish Farmers' Association. I think this is true. Glanbia is investing more than €200 million in the single biggest agri-investment in the history of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: The consequence of that investment is that there will be 2,500 jobs on family farms in a region from south Leinster right up to Louth. I met with representatives of the Construction Industry Federation and I told them that, just as the cowboys had been weeded out of the agricultural sector 20 years ago, we needed a construction sector that was capable of efficiently delivering high-quality...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not know the details of the suppliers to the HSE and Tullamore Hospital that the Deputy mentions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----but there are various ways of having that machinery implemented in a way that resolves disputes. Obviously the Haddington Road agreement speaks for itself, as the vast majority of public servants have accepted that process and have engaged in moving on as a country. We have had to deal with difficult and challenging times, but we also have the chance to expand our economy and have more...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: No, not formally.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: The individual line Ministers meet with the trade unions and all the other organisations on a regular basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I meet with individual trade union people regularly in various places around the country but I have not formally met with the trade unions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I know that the Deputy shares my view on facilities provided anywhere in the country which improve the lot of patients. On the issue raised, I have spoken to people who have needed dialysis three times a week for eight to ten years, many of whom live in my own county and who used to have to travel to Galway for such treatment. Taking traffic into account and so forth, they were spending...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: As I stated, responsible Ministers and the various agencies that are answerable to them have primary engagement with the social partners, and they meet very regularly. We value those discussions. I take the Deputy's point that there is clearly a need for a discussion on many issues but I do not get much chance, given my job, to do as the Deputy desires. Yesterday, however, I was in Mayo...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Government takes the matter very seriously. Two cases arise; one formal investigation by the Garda is nearing completion and I expect it will come to a conclusion. The second arises from a recent contact. NAMA has not been formally contacted by the Garda arising from those allegations. Deputy Donnelly made a point about people perhaps not following through on an initial interest in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive, together. As the House is aware, while this Government does not intend to return to the rigid social partnership structures of the past, we continue to engage in a wider process of social dialogue on an ongoing basis. The primary point of contact for this interaction is the Minister with functional responsibility. Ministers and their...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: No.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: As I understand it, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, was not invited to the meeting but was rather requested to send an official. As the Deputy knows, the Bill was in the Seanad last evening with the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and the Minister of State at the Department, Deputy O'Dowd. The Minister was not asked to attend the meeting but was asked to send an official, which he did. I have given...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have dealt with the figures raised by the Deputy, the transfer of assets, pension liabilities and the collection of commercial rates. It is time to move on with a system fit for 2014 and beyond, and that is what Irish Water will be able to do.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: All the Governments over the past 50 years have seen the likes of pipes extending throughout the Dublin regional network, where we lose very substantial amounts of treated water every day.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: There was trouble recently in the treatment works and the extent of water that could be treated coming out of that. This was causing trouble for Dublin business and daily commercial life. We must get this right.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: We are talking about the capital city but this does not just apply to Dublin.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Enda Kenny: The standards must apply across the board and in a country that has as much rain as we do, there must be a reliable supply of treated water that is cost-effective and does not have the taxpayer paying very substantial amounts of money for treated water that could then flow away through inferior pipes to the earth. That is one of the real tasks that will be carried out in Irish Water's major...