Results 15,361-15,380 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is awaiting debate on Committee Stage. A number of technical amendments are being worked on in the Office of the Attorney General. As soon as they are cleared, it will be brought to Committee Stage.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is due on Committee Stage next week.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Sports Ireland Bill have not been cleared. That will take place later this year. The criminal law (sexual offences) Bill will be taken next year according to the current list.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: With regards to the fines (amendment) Bill, at the moment we have a ludicrous situation where people are being convicted-----
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I said to Deputy Durkan on the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill, there was a report to Government last July and work is proceeding in the Department. It probably will not be finished for some time. The fines (amendment) Bill is due this session.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government authorised the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to give the chairman of the Labour Relations Commission a few extra days to engage with unions with regard to Croke Park II. I hope some progress can be made in that regard. The chairman of the LRC will report to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on Monday and the Minister will brief the Cabinet on Tuesday...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will have a briefing from the chairman of the LRC on Monday.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I prefer to allow the extra time for discussions to take place between the unions and the LRC and to have the chairman of the LRC brief the Minister on Monday and the Minister report to the Cabinet on Tuesday. The Government will consider the outcome and the options at that time.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government made a decision to have effective payments from 1 January 2015, which are retrospective for three months. The payments will be from October 2014 but only payable from 1 January 2015. The Government has been in negotiation and discussion with the troika and progress was made in that regard. I cannot give confirmation of the outcome but I understand it was satisfactory and I...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The criminal justice (miscellaneous provisions) Bill will be taken later this year. Deputy Broughan received his letter on 23 April setting out the position. I would like to be able to give an end date for this Priory Hall debacle but there are court cases tied up in it and I cannot comment on it.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is due in the middle of next year according to the present preparation.
- Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: On 10 May 1972, 41 years ago on Friday, the people went to the polls to decide whether to join what was then the European Economic Community. More than four in five people voted "Yes". As we mark the 40th anniversary of our membership this year, it is plain that the four decades since we voted have fully vindicated our choice. The Ireland of the early 1970s was a very different place. It...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Universal health care is to be introduced at the end of this period of Government. The Minister of State has quite rightly requested time to reflect on a more efficient and effective delivery of the process for free general practitioner care services. As I said in reply to an earlier question of Deputy Martin's, the immediate focus of the Minister of State is persons with long-term...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: These things are related, as the Deputy points out. I suggest he wait until we have a set of proposals from the Minister of State at the end of the month, at which time I will be able to provide a more accurate read on the timeline for legislation. I do not know what spokesperson was talking about an eight-month period. There is a bottleneck which we must discuss and which is affecting the...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I met a cross-Border delegation regarding Narrow Water when I was in Dundalk recently. Clearly, the EU moneys are in place as is the finance being contributed by Louth County Council and the Government. The process of evaluation by the Executive and the Minister, Sammy Wilson's office in Stormont is proceeding. I hope the matter can be brought to a speedy and successful conclusion. The...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I had three requests for separate meetings in the short time I was in the GPO on Easter Sunday morning. I made the point to a number of groups that we would want to get some cohesion on what we want. We are not going to have three separate dealings about headquarters. I acknowledge that the groups all have particular leanings about what they want. While I will get around to it, I ask...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Omagh bombing was an appalling tragedy and an appalling crime. It was one of the worst tragedies inflicted on innocent people throughout the entire Troubles in Northern Ireland. I had some engagement with personnel who were involved on the fringes of the Omagh bombing. The information transmitted to me at the time was transferred to the Taoiseach of the day and to the appropriate...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Some time ago I met some of the relatives of persons who were blown up in the Omagh tragedy. I met with the relatives of the Kingsmill massacre, with the relatives of those murdered in Enniskillen and with people from Fermanagh who were displaced, some of whom were shot. I have a long list of organisations and individuals of different persuasions and from different areas in Northern Ireland...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 19, statements on Europe Week. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn at the conclusion of Private Members’ Business, which shall be No. 102, motion re fodder crisis (resumed), to be taken at the conclusion of No. 19 or at 7.30 p.m., whichever is the later, and...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have already pointed out to the Deputy that the programme for Government sets out the steps that Government will take across all Departments to rectify the public finances, sort out the problems we inherited and get the country back to work. I am the first to admit that there are a number of items in the programme for Government that have proved not to be deliverable, but this is not one...