Results 581-600 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Some of the Bills that are being taken have to be amended extensively by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government to make them into a Bill that is fit for purpose-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----and taking into account issues that might be far beyond the central issue.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: For instance, we have-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Currently, there are perhaps 20 Bills before the Dáil. Some are on Report Stage while others are on Second Stage or Committee Stage. A similar situation arises in respect of the Seanad Order Paper. The Deputy is around a long time and knows that the Constitution is clear in respect of money messages. Article 17.2 states:Dáil Éireann shall not pass any vote or resolution,...
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: If we are to have 140 Bills-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: The point is-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Let me make my point.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Let me make the point. For instance, take the Coroner's Bill-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: ------which is currently being dealt with by Deputy Ó Caoláin.The charge involved is approximately €12 million. If that were to be allowed through, it is €12 million of the Vote for that particular Department. Taking ten Bills or whatever one wants out of the 140, the charge is then taken off the Vote that has already gone through from the relevant Minister. We all...
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: However, I am not in a position to accede to requests such as this one-----
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----which is that we should respond by having money messages signed by the Taoiseach in accordance with the Constitution, when we know the outcome.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: It was a good thing that any Deputy would be able to put forward a Private Member's Bill, but perhaps we on all sides did not think it out clearly enough and ask what we meant by it. We cannot put through a Bill that is inadequate, inferior or will not work.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Therefore, while the thought or the intent might have been good, the Minister involved might have to amend the Bill extensively. If there is a money charge, it does not fall into line with the expenditure intentions and priorities of the Department.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps that is an issue that we should discuss. In respect of the 140 Bills, I know that there is a discussion to be had through the Ceann Comhairle's chairmanship as to what the parties want as their priorities out of that 140.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: I note the comments in the current controversy about this matter. I understand that there have been no public prosecutions for blasphemy under the 2009 Act. I also understand the last prosecution for blasphemy by public authorities in Ireland is thought to have been in 1855, which is quite a distance back. The current statutory provision for the offence of blasphemy is section 36 of the...
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: We should get something very clear here, first of all. This is a very different working Dáil to previous Dáileanna because the Government does not control the full agenda here. One of the changes that we made was to give backbench Deputies the right to put forward opportunities for Private Members' Bills. That is an important facility in any democracy.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: We had but, as Deputy Martin knows, few of them came through.
- Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: We did not have a backed-up list of 140. In my time in here, few Private Members' Bills have passed – I could count fewer than a dozen in any particular year, although maybe I am wrong. We now have 140 of these Bills backed up. It is easy for a Deputy to say an issue should be addressed and that he or she should get a Bill drafted on it. What happens is that the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: I recall speaking to experts in restoration about the structural condition of the building. It was clear that we could not proceed to do sensitive restoration work without the building being structurally sound. It is for experts and engineers to determine how that should be done. I take the Deputy's point. There is a measure of agreement here. Having made a major move in purchasing Nos....
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Enda Kenny: Vacant units, apartments and houses in the Deputy's area and every other area have to be the subject of a strategy to return them to habitable use for people in order that they can raise their families in them.