Results 13,401-13,420 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: There was a public consultation process and the matter has been concluded. Reflections will take place on the outcome, but no date has been set for publication of the Bill.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is before the House and the debate will be resumed. The Bill is moving through the process.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have already indicated that the legislation will be brought forward next year. In its current format EirGrid is obliged to engage in proper and meaningful consultation. The proposition for the grid around the country was made during the term of the previous Government. There is a need in all the circumstances for a rational, meaningful and proper discourse about what we are at. We...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The relevant Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, has already indicated that the water services (No. 2) Bill will be brought before the Cabinet on 26 November which means that it will not be long before councils are properly informed about their remit. With regard to tomorrow's discussion, as the Deputy is aware, the Minister for Finance will take Question Time in the morning when a number of...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Ireland did not apply for a credit line. The exit strategy conditions for any country are published on the websites of the ESM and the IMF. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, indicated that he wished to publish some information and he is quite free to do so. I cannot speak for him now, but I expect that he will make the information available. The...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Public consultation has finished on the human tissue Bill. The submissions are being reflected on and we do not yet have a date for publication. We will follow through on the legislation. The Deputy asked about the Bill dealing with the packaging of tobacco products. The Bill was brought before the Cabinet this morning and approved. The draft heads will go before the relevant...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill have not yet been approved. I met the hospital development board and other associates and the strategy is now in place. It will be published shortly in order that there will be clarity about the timelines involved and the work done to date in the preparation of the legislation.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is locked away until next year and I cannot give an exact date. It is to be clamped until 2014.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is an issue the Government has considered and it will form part of the housing Bill. The legislation may come before the Cabinet before the end of the year. The Minister of State responsible for housing, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, is concerned about this issue and anxious to have this and a number of other elements put in place as a package to deal with the problems arising in different...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads were approved and published a long time ago. The Bill is static but is expected some time next year.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The legislation is listed for next year. Work has begun on it in terms of EirGrid's statutory responsibilities. I share the view of Deputy Micheál Martin that there must be meaningful and proper consultation by EirGrid and every other entity where a major development is proposed. No one can disagree with that.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not object to meeting people. The problem is finding an appropriate time to do it. The Deputy is aware of the position in respect of the Narrow Water bridge. There was a discussion about it prior to the North-South Ministerial Council meeting, at the meeting and afterwards. The agreement was to keep alive the principle of providing a bridge across the inlet. The outcome was that...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: We discussed this. The First Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive has a process of validation and value for money audits for any infrastructure, including this, and the SEUPB has given its analysis that this is a worthwhile prospect. The problem is that I cannot commit to writing a blank cheque. We must follow through on the analysis of the tenders submitted and determine how we can...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It will be taken next year.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The motorised transport scheme is to come back from the Minister for Health shortly to Cabinet. Did the Deputy ask about primary care centres?
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will bring a recommendation to Cabinet shortly.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no date for publication of the courts (consolidation and reform) Bill, although a great deal of work has been done on it. I will advise the Deputy in due course.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: A draft of the Bill went to the committee for pre-legislative scrutiny this morning. It is part of the process of moving towards taking advice and reflections on Bills from Oireachtas committees. The Chairman will decide how to consult about it.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2013; No. 10, motion re leave to Introduce Supplementary Estimates -Votes 20 and 24; No. 11, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimates - Votes 20 and 24 - to select committee; No. 4, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013 -...
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: On behalf of the Fine Gael Party and the Government, I wish to sympathise with the Fianna Fáil Party on the passing of the late Paddy Power. Today would have been Paddy's 85th birthday. As Deputy Martin indicated, he was first elected to the House in 1969. I was always happy to meet him in the environs of the Dáil because of his remarkable strength and sense of humour about life...