Results 19,021-19,040 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has set out her intention to have the review process commence by mid-July and monthly meetings will take place until the review is completed towards the end of the year. There is no reason to believe the domiciliary care allowance will be taken from anyone or reduced pending completion of the policy review. I hope I make myself clear.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: There will be no reduction. There is no intention to reduce anyone's payment.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is carrying out a review, starting in mid-July, with monthly meetings taking place. I do not see any reason for anyone's allowance to be reduced until the review is completed and we see what it shows up.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: Certainly not.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett should be ashamed, as a legislator, to come into the House which passes the laws of the land and in which Members have their say for and against to encourage people deliberately to break the law. Were the minority who have not yet paid the household charge to do so, the Minister for Social Protection and everyone else would find it easier to deal with sensitive cases....
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: I will not speculate beyond this. The Government set up a working group under the chairmanship of Mr. Don Thornhill who has furnished his report to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government who has a responsibility and a duty to reflect on the issues raised in the report and bring a memo to the Government. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: When the memo comes to Government, it will make a decision in its own time.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure what tablets Deputy Boyd Barrett took today but for him to equate himself or put himself in the mix with Gandhi and Martin Luther King is a bridge too far.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: For someone who has espoused a Trotskyite philosophy for a long time, it is another bridge too far to hear him praising the IMF.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: He should please understand that coming from a constituency that gave the second highest vote in the country in favour of the fiscal stability treaty that his ranting and hysterical incantations on the pier in Dún Laoghaire fell on deaf ears. We live in the land of reality.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: People in this country clearly understand that we are spending far more than we are taking in and that people must make a contribution -----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----towards services for every person in the community.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: What the Government wants to see is that the contributions are fair, equitable and affordable with the intention of providing services for people to which they are properly entitled.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett comes to the House as an elected person in respect of laws-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----a majority of people strongly support, that are to provide facilities for all our people. That is something he should examine in terms of his responsibilities.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: We had statements from a Deputy last week on deliberate non-payment of other forms of tax.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett goes around the country telling people deliberately to break the law, which is designed to be fair, equitable, affordable and in people's interests.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett should be ashamed of himself.
- Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11, inclusive, together. Since I have taken office I have visited Northern Ireland on four separate occasions. The first, sadly, was to attend the funeral of PSNI Officer Ronan Kerr who was killed just over one year ago. I attended the opening of the new Peace Bridge in Derry last June which was a highly symbolic visit. In November I visited Belfast...
- Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jun 2012)
Enda Kenny: I suppose that one of the things that causes Deputy Martin's perception of this is the actual normality that has been restored between the Assembly and the activities of the Oireachtas. I have outlined much of what has happened since the last meeting. Clearly, the impact of, for instance, the Titanic Experience has been enormous in the sense of the number of visitors flocking to Belfast....