Results 14,521-14,540 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: He sat over here as a Minister as part of a decrepit Government that time after time cut social welfare benefits without any consultation with the people involved.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: He allowed the self-employed not to be covered under the Social Welfare Acts in the so-called veneer of the Celtic tiger years and did nothing about it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin allowed that to continue.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: This Government is allowing self-employed people to participate in the insurance scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin should not come in here with his false anger every week.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have had enough of that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Martin well knows, the supplementary welfare allowance is a means-tested allowance.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: If 70% of applications for supplementary welfare allowance are being refused it is because those applicants have another income.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy telling me that supplementary welfare allowance should not be means tested and should be paid irrespective of whether a person has another allowance, salary or income?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin needs to focus on what is real here.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have no time for his false anger week after week.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: This has always been a sensitive matter. For more than 60 years nothing was done about this. Government after Government, some including my party, did nothing about this. We have done something about it. The first thing those women wanted when I met them was a sense of righteousness that the State would apologise for what happened. Second, because of their circumstances and their ages,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: This year, the bill for social protection expenditure will be more than €20 billion. This money has been voted, is available and is being paid to a wide range of people who draw on the services of the Department of Social Protection. I note that the spending profile set out by the Deputy's party for the Department of Social Protection was €1.5 billion lower than the current...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no date for the publication of those Bills. The Deputy has raised this issue on a number of occasions. I will have the Minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources contact him. This is not all within the Minister's control. There are planning applications, environmental impact studies and all of that. I will have the Minister consult the Deputy.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The water services Bill is to be introduced later on in the year. The contracts, as I understand this, and I will have the Minister contact the Deputy, are for the major regional contractors who in turn will employ subcontractors to do the work on numbers of houses.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: No, but they have at their discretion the option of employing pretty significant numbers of local contractors and unemployed persons from the construction sector, competent persons in the plumbing business and so on. I think these tenders are in; they are probably known at this stage. The announcement in respect of the regional contractors is to be next week, as the Deputy pointed out. I...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: No, there is not. This is a matter that has the support of Europe in the sense that an allocation of €16 million has been made available for it and there are also contributions to be made from Northern Ireland, Louth County Council and the Government here, but the tenders are very seriously in excess of the amount estimated. The local authority is in discussion with the designers and...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would not want to give anybody the impression that I was misleading the Dáil. My words may not have been entirely accurate. I had been speaking with the Minister for Health and as I understood it the discussions that had taken place had been progressive. I take the point that senior officials from the Department of Health and not the Minister met with both the Irish Thalidomide...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: That will be later this year.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I hope to set out those changes for next week.