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- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Five Bills, the consumer and competition Bill, the county enterprise boards (dissolution) Bill, the employment permits Bill, the friendly societies and industrial and provident societies (miscellaneous provisions) Bill and the workplace relations Bill, are listed for this session and all deal with workers' employment rights. I cannot give the Deputy an accurate read on the insolvency...
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Maybe the Deputy cannot see the wood from the trees.
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is trying to imply if he keeps protesting, he might stop the sale of everything. I will clarify it for the Deputy. The Government agreed a list of potential sales of State assets. Clearly the Government would need to evaluate the value and opportunity that might present itself for any of these assets, including the sale of the timber on Coillte grounds. A great deal of work has...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams. There is no question or intent in any circumstance for an opening, as they say, for abortion on demand in this country. The Government is required to act in accordance with the Constitution. We are required to act within the parameters as set out and the legal implications of the X case. In the three areas, where there is either a medical emergency or an issue in a...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure what Deputy Clare Daly's question is arising out of all of that. I can certainly testify that the Fine Gael backbenchers are interested in all pieces of legislation that come before the House and they are focused, along with the other members of the Government, in getting the country back to work and sorting out the financial difficulties.
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The protection of life during pregnancy Bill is about saving women's lives. As I stated, the law on abortion is not being changed but in very specific circumstances, where there is a real and substantial threat to the life of the mother, a termination is permissible under the law. Each of those terminations that has happened here has been as a consequence of a real and substantial risk to a...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Unemployment has fallen from 15% to 14%, although I agree that it is unacceptably high.
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Some 90,000 people on the live register are working three days a week. These statistics often do not give an accurate figure for those who are full-time unemployed. The National Pensions Reserve Fund launched an €850 million investment in three different categories in January. That is there to be taken up. The Government has been dealing with the carnage in the last two years to...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for his comments. As a matter of courtesy, the Minister for Health and the Ministers of State at the Department of Health will be available for briefings for the Opposition spokespersons on health if they wish. I agree the debate on this sensitive issue has been conducted to date in a measured, constructive and sensitive fashion and I hope that will continue for the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy McGrath for his comments and question. The grade was made in respect of the action plan as a document and it sets out the success and progress made by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and the strategy for continuing to open the doors for business in the time ahead.
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am happy the Deputy recognises the impact of the decision by Glanbia yesterday, which will create between 1,500 and 2,000 jobs between construction and family farming from north Cork to Louth, taking advantage of the fact that milk quotas will be gone by 2015. There will also be the opening of upgrades to the M11 and N7 roads. These public private partnerships are complex and technical,...
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is monitoring this very carefully. Even with a burst of heat at this stage it will still take a few weeks for grass to grow.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Department and the Minister are conscious of the crisis for many people and it is monitored on a daily basis.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is working on the issue of retrofit for energy saving in residential homes. The geothermal energy development Bill that the Deputy mentioned is not due until the middle of next year.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government was given authorisation to produce that Bill this morning.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will have ample opportunity to state his case here in the House when it is discussed.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will produce the Bill as quickly as possible.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Is the maritime area development and foreshore (amendment) Bill the one dealing with foreshore licences?
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of that Bill came before Cabinet before Easter and work is ongoing on it. I expect it to be published later this year. It is an important Bill in the sense of investment in terms of marine activities and connections to the shore.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is well aware of the local legislation that applies here where nuisance occurs. No date has been fixed for publication of the noise Bill.