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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The following table details the number and timeframe of payments made to suppliers by my Department and NESDO in 2011. Department No of Payments Department No of Payments Department No of Payments Department No of Payments Within 30 days of receipt of invoice 1680 Within 30 days of receipt of invoice 1680 Within 30 days of receipt of invoice 1680 Within 30 days of receipt of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The following table details expenditure on consultancy by my Department, and bodies under the aegis of my Department, from 2008 to the end of September 2012. 2008 Name of Consultant Total Amount paid Nature of Work Procurement Type Department Grant Thornton €75,120 Forensic accounting services in respect of issues pertaining to an industrial relations dispute at Aer Lingus...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: My Department did not incur legal expenses from a firm of solicitors or from Senior or Junior Counsel, other than through the State's legal Offices, during the period in question. The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) incorporating the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), is the only body under the aegis of my Department. In 2006 NESDO conducted a competitive...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The table below sets out the list of suppliers to my Department of professional services, where professional services withholding tax has been applied, and the total paid from 1 October 2011 to end September 2012, including professional services withholding tax, according to my Department's Financial Management System. Vendor Name € *Terminal Four 163,506.47 System Dynamics...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: No bodies of this nature have been established by my Department since 9 March 2011.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy advised banks himself for a good while over the years. I am not sure that they listened to him in his professional capacity. He talked about putting the boot on the necks of the banks. We rely on external investment into the banks to keep the system moving. This is important as the economy begins to turn around. Banks are regulated, as the Deputy is well aware, by the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy understands the scale of the dysfunctionality that obtained in the banking system a very short time ago. I am sure he appreciates that the restructuring of the banks, involving a reduction from six banks to two pillar banks, the recapitalisation and other changes are important elements of putting in place a banking system that can actually function in the way the country...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy makes constructive suggestions every week. We have had long discussions with the banks about steps they could take to help persons in mortgage distress. The regulator required the banks to submit to him, by a certain date, their proposals for persons in mortgage distress. I expect that banks will now answer the calls made yesterday by Ms Muldoon of the Central Bank and the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am most certainly not satisfied with the pace of resolution. As I stated, the Government, when appointed, examined the mess in the Irish banking system, from which capital was haemorrhaging. Some 250,000 jobs were lost and there was hopelessness, despair and disillusionment in many business circles. This is why the Government acted as it did to restructure, recapitalise and reorganise...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The banks have been given no veto. Committee Stage of the Personal Insolvency Bill was completed in September. As Deputy Martin is aware, the personal insolvency arrangements constitute a mechanism to arrive at a resolution in every case - in appropriate circumstances, debt forgiveness or write-down. If the banks do not sit down with their clients, the client will be by law be given the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: There is no veto in the legislation, which allows for debt write-down or forgiveness.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The banks are forewarned that clients have the opportunity to go through the insolvency arrangements if the banks do not sit down and reach a conclusion. Deputy Martin is wrong in his assertions.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is aware that the Government has made no decisions in respect of the property tax and will discuss the matter in due course. All of the suggestions people make will be taken into consideration before that decision is finally made. I welcome the statement by Ms Muldoon from the Central Bank. The setting up of the mortgage arrears resolution committee has been attended by...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Last week, at a Dublin Chamber of Commerce function, I stated publicly there was no demonstrable evidence of a functioning banking system in the country and that the banks were not doing enough. Deputy Martin is only too well aware that the Government had to restructure and recapitalise the banks, change the boards and remove the perks. The Government has had regular meetings with the banks...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: We are not playing the Faroe Islands.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Crowe suggesting we make a few changes?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The team will perform.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Why did the Deputy's Government not do it at the outset?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Some neck.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Why did the Deputy's Government not restructure them?