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Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will be here on Thursday to answer questions on this. Any other questions Deputy Martin can think of should be submitted before then.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: They are down for Priority Questions.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: Primary care development is a fundamental part of the strategy to reform the health sector. Clearly, primary care centres have enormous capacity to take people in, rather than having them go to accident and emergency units in the first place. Given the range of facilities that can, should and will be provided in primary care centres, they are important. There were broader criteria used...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legal Matters (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Attorney General's Office and the Chief State Solicitor's Office engage external counsel to assist in their legal work on behalf of Government Departments. The Chief State Solicitor's Office sometimes engages external solicitor firms to assist with court cases outside the Dublin area. The total cost of hiring solicitors and barristers to undertake work for these Offices was...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy has met on three occasions: - 30 June 2011 - 20 December 2011 - 02 May 2012

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below: Office 2009 2010 Taoiseach’s Private Office €1,590,431 €1,362,762 Taoiseach’s Constituency Office €337,197 €296,497 Government Chief Whip's Private Office €302,491 €291,882 Government Chief Whip's Constituency Office €162,473 €130,614 Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Expenditure (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: My Department has been substantially restructured since 2002 with a number of functional areas and staff being transferred to other Departments, including those in relation to Public Service Modernisation and the Information Society. Accordingly, it will not be possible to provide details of all the committees and working groups established by my predecessors. However, I will contact the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The table below details expenditure by the Department of the Taoiseach on photography from 2001 to 9th March 2011. Year Photography expenditure 2001 € 9,020 2002 € 45,624 2003 € 39,446 2004 € 27,424 2005 € 44,814 2006 € 80,827 2007 € 64,672 2008 € 83,398 2009 € 27,455 2010 € 24,919 2011...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: On 9 March 2011, I nominated Dr. James Reilly as Minister for Health. I did so, not because he has decades of experience as a GP or because he developed a radical policy to create a patient-centred health system, but because he has a passionate commitment to creating a health service that puts the patient first. The Government received a mandate from the people to create a universal,...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not in control of the Chair but I might suggest that if the Deputy submits a request for a Topical Issue debate, the Ceann Comhairle might consider it so the Deputy could get a direct response from the Minister.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: No.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister is still considering the Private Members' Bill the Deputy introduced and I will ask him to update the Deputy on the issue.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for publication of that Bill.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: I wish the Deputy the best for Sunday.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will see. The property tax has been put on the legislative list by Government. The Thornhill report has been with the Minister for some time. He will come to Cabinet with his recommendations and the Cabinet will then make a decision. The tax will apply from 1 July 2013 and people will contribute on the basis of a half yearly charge from 1 July 2013. The decision was taken to transfer...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance has already outlined that it will be introduced on budget day so it will be towards the end of the session.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is a massive project so the Bill is some time away. The committee dealing with social policy will look at the issues that have been prepared by the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in respect of alcohol. That meeting will take place in a couple of weeks but the Bill is some time away. We will keep the Deputy informed.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The public health (tobacco) Bill is an idea the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs wants to promote at a European level but it is some distance away. The heads of the landlord and tenant Bill the Deputy mentioned were cleared last October and work is ongoing on the Bill. It will be the end of the year or next year before it is published.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is referring to the criminal law (human trafficking) Bill. The heads of that Bill have not been cleared at Cabinet yet, it has not been discussed. It is some time away because it is not on the current priority list because of the pressure for legislation. We will keep the Deputy updated as work continues on it.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: In law since 1983, where a charge is due from a person in a specific instance, the local authority is empowered to withhold another payment in respect of that if it wishes. Local authorities, however, are not entitled to withhold an element of the third level grant. What Clare County Council did was acquire information as part of processing the application form for a third level grant as to...