Results 14,641-14,660 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The unemployment rate has dropped from 14.5% to 13.8%. After the Order of Business today I am going to Naas to turn the sod on a €100 million investment by the Kerry Group which will create thousands of jobs in the coming years in a world-class food innovation centre. This is part of the programme for the agrifood sector which is worth over €9 billion currently. In addition,...
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 19, Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages; and No. 20, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and shall adjourn not later...
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Whip will deal with that matter. I take the Chair's point in respect of the staff. We agree with it.
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand an extensive number of amendments have been submitted. As many of them are connected to each other, they have, therefore, been grouped. Amendments can be discussed individually or in groups and can be voted on in groups. Therefore, I am not sure of the point being made by Deputy Micheál Martin. Very few Bills in the past 40 years have been subject to such extensive...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I seem to have inherited a position of having to deal with a range of difficult issues involving not only financial, political and employment problems but also matters pertaining to the Magdalenes, thalidomide and the Neary cases of symphysiotomy. We want to do something about this issue. I have not yet read Professor Walsh's report, but it has been the Government's practice to engage with...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: That was a good rant in two minutes. The Deputy conducted a fine analysis of her version of neoliberal capitalism. Does she think no one over here recognises the scale of the challenge for Europe, where 26 million people are unemployed? Has she not heard me say on many occasions that no leader in Europe could be proud of this situation? That is why the Irish Presidency shoved these major...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The first thing we have to do is to determine the facts and the circumstances that apply. I referred to the consequences of light touch regulation and the financial downturn which have affected thousands of workers. Clearly, the Deputy agrees with this. It is wrong to expect workers to contribute under a employment contract to a defined benefit pensions scheme from which they may never...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is only right and proper, in the interests of the taxpayer, that the Government be in a position to know the facts before it decides on a legislative response.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The matter is far too serious to be flippant and say we can have an answer in the morning. This issue has dragged on for a long time.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: We need to find out the facts before the Government can respond comprehensively and properly in the interests of workers, unions, employers and the taxpayer.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: We need to know the facts and the Minister for Social for Protection will bring her report to the Government in due course. The Government will decide how best to address the matter. It is an enormous challenge, as the Deputy is aware.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his question. The Department of Health received the independent report produced by Professor Oonagh Walsh on symphysiotomy at the end of May. It was submitted to the Minister for Health on 31 May and both the Minister and departmental officials have been looking at the conclusions reached in it. A great deal of credit is due to Professor Walsh for the manner in which...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is an issue of considerable importance to thousands of workers around the country. Obviously, the Minister for Social Protection is well aware of this. The Government has yet to consider the submissions made arising from the requirement to submit plans and how it is proposed to deal with them. Strong regulation of defined benefit pension schemes is essential to protect scheme members...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: You will be here until the end of July.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The priority is smaller boats, on which the vast majority of such accidents occur. The current funding element is 60% for smaller boats and 40% for bigger ones. Depending on economic circumstances, we will see what the take-up is and the matter can then be examined. The Minister is clearly prioritising smaller boats, where most of these unfortunate accidents occur.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Water torture is an international crime and is banned.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: When I had the privilege of travelling beyond Killorglin with the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Deenihan, on Saturday I saw the mobile torture van. The Healy-Rae van was parked, by coincidence-----
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----at a corner. I was going to arrange for a docket to be put on it on the grounds that it was a distraction, which causes its own form of torture.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: That Bill has not yet been drafted and anything the Deputy reads at present is speculation.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the reports from the Constitutional Convention, the Government stated there would be a response within four months. If it accepts any of the recommendations it will give an indication as to when this might apply. The first and second reports are in, with a third to come shortly. This morning the Government considered the first report from the convention. We accept in...