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Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I believe there are 27 Bills on the A list for this session, including both NTMA Bills. Work has gone quite some distance on the regulation of lobbying Bill to which the Deputy refers but it will be early next year before it is introduced.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will have to return to the Deputy on that. The Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, is dealing with it and I will advise the Deputy on the position.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The question raised by the Deputy was also raised by Deputy Naughten, and is due for answer in a parliamentary question tomorrow. I do not have the details of that answer. The business expansion scheme, BES, is related, including exclusion of particular areas. The Ceann Comhairle has clarified the position on speaking rights. We have an action plan, No. 2, for jobs, containing 332 action...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, about the greyhound industry, in which he takes a passionate interest. I will have him advise the House as to the progress being made on the preparation of that legislation. The Deputy is aware that the Government wishes to deal with housing assistance payments as an incentive to getting people off the live register and back to work...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the noise nuisance Bill. I have referred to the housing Bill. Work has been undertaken on the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill which will be the subject of discussion at Cabinet sub-committee in the near future. The Minister for Health will outline the progress being made. I believe all information on the legislative programme is...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is doing a great job. I already answered that question. The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, will engage with the Cabinet sub-committee next week in regard to this matter.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I believe that report will issue in the coming week or so. I will confirm this when I have the news from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No.14, motion re membership of committee, and No. 22, statements of appreciation in respect of the life and work of Seamus Heaney. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and shall adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members' business, which shall be No. 114, motion re education, and which...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The health (general practitioner medical service) Bill will be discussed at a Cabinet sub-committee in the next fortnight. It is being presented by the Minister of State with responsibility for primary care, Deputy White.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State will report to the Cabinet sub-committee on whatever progress has been made or whatever discussions have taken place. Legislation has not yet been prepared in respect of the question of the appointment of a Clerk of the Dáil. There is legislation governing this going back as far as 1959, and I am of the view that this should be an open competition. Clearly, the...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not have any objection to a debate on North-South issues. It might be useful at an appropriate time. A number of contacts are being made with the First Minister, Deputy First Minister and different Ministers, and that might help the process in so far as up-to-date information about particular issues is concerned. I answered a question from Deputy Martin about Narrow Water Bridge. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McHugh made a point about the further potential for North-South engagement. As a Border Deputy, he will be well aware that the facilities which now exist, including the North-South Ministerial Council, the non-formal connections between Ministers and Ministers of State on cross-Border issues and the connections between agencies and organisations on either side of the Border, have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 to 19, inclusive, together. The events of recent months surrounding disputes over parades in particular and the tensions and disorder they have provoked, alongside the unresolved issues of how to deal with the past, are exerting a harmful and even regressive effect on politics and community relations in Northern Ireland. That is why I very much welcome...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Did I not read the Deputy's words on the matter earlier today?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy stated that reducing the number of Ministers of State would result in savings for the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Ministers of State are not appointed by the Taoiseach, they are appointed by the Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy sat at the Cabinet table but he did not open his mouth - perhaps he did but, as far as I can ascertain, there is no record of him doing so - when the Government of which he was a member appointed 20 Ministers of State-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and went on a spending spree in respect of appointing chairmen, vice chairmen and convenors of committees, etc. Deputy Martin also made a point regarding an over-concentration of power. This is absolute nonsense.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Economic Management Council, which I chair and on which the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, serve, is merely a vehicle-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----to streamline matters which must be brought before the Government for collective decision and are, therefore, the subject of collective responsibility. Many years ago, perhaps before the Deputy became a Member of the House, the late Deputies Jack Lynch, George Colley and Martin O'Donoghue and former Deputy Des O'Malley had their own quartet which dealt with all - or the vast majority of...