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Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: A total of 81% of passengers who travel on Bus Éireann travel on a PSO-subsidised route and that subsidy has increased. Rural transport throughout Ireland is increasing and there is an increase in the subvention every year. The problem here, as the Deputy is well aware, is that the Expressway service is losing €50,000 per day. That needs to be addressed. Who can address that?...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I too welcome our visitors from across the water here today to the Dáil. I hope they enjoy their visit. They may have issues to talk about in respect of Brexit and other matters. I assure Deputy Micheál Martin that there will be an opportunity to pay tribute to our late colleague, Peter Mathews. I extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Susan and family. He was always a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform last met on 6th February 2017.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: There has been no expenditure by my Department on the retrieval and return of hard copy files stored at off site locations in the last three years.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: No costs were incurred by my Department during the last three years in respect of such storage, as no Department data or files are stored on cloud storage or third party servers.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Regulatory Impact Assessment Data (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: My Department has carried out two regulatory impact analyses, on the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 and the Statute Law Revision Bill 2009. Both are available on my Department's wesbite - www.taoiseach.gov.ie.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Data (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: My Department did not incur any legal fees processing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in the past three years. When my Department requires legal advice in relation to FOI issues it is obtained from the Office of the Attorney General. The number of staff hours spent on processing FOI requests in my Department is not recorded centrally. It spans a wide cohort of staff involved in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: No employees in my Department and the National Economic and Social Development Office [NESDO] have been suspended from work without prejudice and on full pay pending an investigation.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (28 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Levels of remuneration for employees of my Department and the National Economic and Social Development Office [NESDO] are based on pay scales set centrally by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I do not want to give a guarantee here on a return for town councils but I have to say that some of them worked exceptionally well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Many of them were completely ecumenical.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The benefit can be seen in some towns. In Westport, for example, one had different groupings on the town council but they always looked in the same direction for developments. Signs around the town-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Others-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----as Deputy Martin well knows, became the Frank Hall story and could not get agreement on anything.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: We need to look at the outcome of what has transpired since they were abolished in terms of representation of people. I know it took some time for people in towns to understand that they did not go to an office to deal with their town council business but rather had to deal with municipal authorities in terms of their functions. Deputy Howlin has raised the issue. There is nothing wrong...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----populist Ireland at the time in terms of the scale and size of political bureaucracy, questions about what they were doing and so on. The Deputy has every right to say we should seriously examine this issue and build a consensus. We will get a paper first and see what is the general response.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I would be very happy if we could agree on a chair and get on with it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: It worked out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: No, I will not. These things work both ways. A lot of legislation has gone through in Private Members' time and that is now backed up, so obviously parties will have to make a decision on what priorities they want taken through. I am genuinely anxious that this commission would get under way to start to implement the Manning report. I have another name that has come through as well, and I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: When we had the old health board system, while it had its faults and failings, at least we were able to get answers and Deputies could talk to whoever the official was, although they were not called directors of services then. Public representatives-----