Results 15,541-15,560 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The charge would be levied but paid three months later, from 1 January 2015.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, for the October to December period.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Ministers have to make that case to the troika and have its approval.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill on water charges will be brought forward later in the autumn. On the protection of maternal life Bill, there has been a lot of speculation and comment on it. The Minister expected to have the heads approved yesterday. We had a discussion on the issue. There are a number of matters that we must address to get the Bill as right as possible. I hope this can happen.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have seen all of the speculation. I do not comment on speculation.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is about saving the life of the mother and that of the unborn, the Constitution and the law. It is important to get the Bill right. I do not engage in wild speculation.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I share that view. Much of the comment I have heard has been, to say the least, unedifying and not respectful of women. This is an issue on which there should be as much consensus as possible because it is an important one. As I said to other Deputies, if we work backwards from the date of the rising of the House for the summer towards the end of July, there is a raft of legislation to be...
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The former Fianna Fáil man should know that the Water Services (Amendment) Bill will be introduced later in the year.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the criminal justice (corruption) Bill were cleared by the Cabinet last June and sent to the relevant committee for discussion. I do not yet have a date for publication. The Children First Bill will be introduced this session.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand the heads of the criminal justice (corruption) Bill were cleared last June and sent to the relevant committee for discussion and observations. There is as yet no date for publication.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The defence (amendment) Bill will not be published until next year.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will have to communicate with the Deputy in the matter. I do not have a date, but the point made is a serious one. I will have the Minister respond to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept the assertions of Deputies Martin, McDonald and Boyd Barrett. The normal procedure for dealing with Estimates for Departments is that they are sent to committee and that is the opportunity for spokespersons or anybody else to have their say and make their line by line analysis of what is involved. That was what happened last week when they were sent to committees for that...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I understand the Ceann Comhairle's ruling. Deputy McGrath's Second Stage speech outside the church gate sounds very well-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but he refuses to accept or recognise that he, Deputy Mattie McGrath, was party to a proposition and a Government which left this country with the highest deficit on the planet of 32.5% of GDP when it was thrown out of office.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McGrath has the temerity to come in here and to accuse the Minister, Deputy Noonan, of cowardice.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to tell the Deputy one thing; he can accuse the Minister of many things but he can never accuse him of cowardice.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: He is the Minister who, on behalf of Government, put in place the process to try to do something about a situation which was inherited by the Government because contracts were approved and signed off by the previous Fianna Fáil Administration and because of that process, the Government commissioned a report into bankers' pay, conditions, salaries, pensions and so on. That report was...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: First, I want to confirm that it was not because of the bleatings of Deputy Mattie McGrath that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine was able to put €1 million extra on the table yesterday to deal with the fodder shortage for hard pressed farmers. Second, when the Deputy speaks of courage, he did not have the courage to put his name behind the Fianna Fáil banner and...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: He was afraid-----