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Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I can inform Deputy Timmins, an esteemed and honoured member of the Defence Forces of former years, that there was detailed discussion on this at the Heads of Government meeting in Brussels, where a detailed report was given by High Representative Ashton. There was full support for the sanctions that were imposed, both from a European perspective and from a United Nations perspective. I...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill have been approved and I expect it will be this session.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: That report is complete speculation. As I have said before in the House, we need to consider, as a Parliament, the process by which we hold referenda in view of the fact two referenda were held together with the presidential election on the last occasion. When it is held, the referendum in respect of the fiscal stability treaty will be held on its own. Obviously, the Government is very...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is not gone from my mind.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: When Deputy Martin addressed these questions before, there was clearly a 12-month period in front of us where one was not required to have a referendum. We have had formal legal advice from the Attorney General to have a referendum on what is a fundamentally important issue for the future of this country, and that will be dealt with on its own. Thereafter, the process in respect of both the...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I had a good meeting with representatives of all the parties, including the Deputy's, on the constitutional convention, although Deputy Martin was not able to attend. Some of them have written back and we are to have a second meeting on that. I assure the Deputy we will be very up-front with him. We will deal with this in due course.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: No, not since the budget. I do not agree with the Deputy that the process of Cabinet sub-committees is not effective. It is probably the most effective process I have seen in my time in the House in that it brings under the imprimatur of the Department of the Taoiseach the requirement for decisions to be made and timelined. This is very important within the whole process of setting up...

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I did not meet with the special delivery unit or have the discussion Deputy Adams had the opportunity to have at the committee meeting. I do not have the details of the evidence given to the Deputy at that meeting. Suffice it to say, the Minister for Health indicated that last week, for the first time ever, there was no count of those waiting for trolleys in Galway, which is an...

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Serious numbers left the health service of their own accord because of the redundancy package. I pay compliment to those who remain, who have changed rosters, moved location and travelled distances, worked longer hours and, with clinical and medical teams and nursing staff, have sat down to determine how to provide the best care for patients in the hospital given that they will not have the...

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have told the Deputy that the committee met three times. The reason the carers' strategy has been taken on by the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, is that for years no Minister, Department or collection of Departments would deal with it. We are now dealing with it, and the Minister of State is putting together all of that strategy-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----to have a carers strategy that will set out policy.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Action is exactly the point because for donkey's years-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----nobody in this House bothered their barney to put together-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the threads of a carers' strategy, and it is being dealt with now.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I made the point to the Deputy that an extra €1 million is allocated for autistic children this year, again next year and the year after that. Neither the Deputy nor I decides on the basis of an analysis of an application for domiciliary care allowance, nor am I qualified to give a verdict in regard to those issues.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy would like me to sit in the Taoiseach's Department all day every day meeting with Cabinet sub-committees-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and not deal with the essence of politics, which is about people.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: We have, Deputy. We try to deal with these meetings as reasonably as possible, give them a programme of work to do and ask them to report progress. I hope they will do that.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I will report back to the Deputy on 24 May.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 7, inclusive, together. The IFSC Clearing House Group, CHG, has met on six occasions in the past year and is due to meet next on 3 April. Its associated working groups in banking and treasury, insurance, funds, asset management and pension funds meet regularly, typically on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. My Department has supported the international...