# leaders-questions - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
“Ultimately the entire population will be covered by free GP services,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 2 May, 2013
The Tánaiste says Ireland’s model has always been to cut costs, while also increasing investment to encourage growth.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The Tánaiste says the government’s focus is on dealing with mortgage arrears, rather than directly controlling interest rates.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Taoiseach Enda Kenny admitted that some farmers were experiencing difficulties with fodder shortages because of the recent bad weather but ruled out setting up a special task force on the issue.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Goverment TDs should be allowed to vote against their party on certain matters under proposals by backbench TD Eoghan Murphy in an internal document circulated among Fine Gael members this week.
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The Tánaiste calls for ‘calm, reasoned reflection’ after the Croke Park 2 pay proposals were struck down by public workers.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Enda Kenny says the outcome of the Croke Park 2 vote doesn’t change the Government’s need to cut public payroll costs.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 28 March, 2013
“The government is not disciplining anybody,” the Tánaiste says, saying Garda discipline is a matter for the Commissioner.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
It disputes comments made by Minister Leo Varadkar who said that childcare costs would have to be taken into consideration in insolvency arrangements.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 21 March, 2013
While 43,000 households were exempted from last year’s household charge, only 5,100 households have been exempted from the local property tax.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Enda Kenny denies that the personal insolvency legislation gives banks the chance to totally block any debt relief.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Micheál Martin suggests that the government is only now dealing with the problem because of the Meath East by-election.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Eamon Gilmore asked Sinn Féin whether it would encourage people to be tax compliant and pay the property tax later this year.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
The Taoiseach tells the Dáil it’s not just Gardaí who are being asked to make a contribution to economic recovery.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Former residents of the Summerhill Training Centre and the notorious Bethany Home could also be in line for redress, Enda Kenny indicated in the Dáil this morning.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said credit unions could lose up to €17 million in the liquidation of the former Anglo Irish Bank.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Minister Howlin told the Dáil that although Minister Reilly still has not seen the leaked draft report, Savita’s husband Praveen would be the first person to get the published report.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Enda Kenny told the Dáil that he was not happy with the banks’ level of resolution of cases where customers are in mortgage arrears.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
Simon Coveney will take ministerial questions in the Dáil today as the horse meat controversy rages on.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
“That is not an apology… it is a cop out,” survivors said of Enda Kenny’s comments in the Dáil this afternoon.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Minister Joan Burton said that Deputy Boyd Barrett’s “notion that social welfare illness payments and benefits are being denied to people is very, very wide of the mark”.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Sinn Féin has demanded an explanation as to why emergency wards in Kilkenny and Wexford had upgrades ‘fast-tracked’.
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Ireland is due to pay €3.06 billion in 60 days’ time – but Enda Kenny remains positive that a deal can be reached.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
His comments came in light of a report today that showed a rise in suicide in Ireland clashed with both the economic downturn and an increase in unemployment.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The release on bail, pending an appeal, of an elderly man who repeatedly raped his daughter when she was younger was raised at Leaders’ Questions.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 17 January, 2013
The FSAI and Department of Agriculture deal with such investigations on a case-by-case basis, it was confirmed today.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
The Tánaiste told the Dáil that the first samples were collected for testing in mid-November and full results were received last Friday.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
Enda Kenny regrets Bank of Ireland’s decision on credit card rates, but says the issue is one for the Financial Regulator.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Pat Rabbitte told Barry Cowen his surname meant he should butt out of Dáil debates. He later apologised.
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Pat Rabbitte said the government had had to choose between cutting carer’s allowance or cutting respite care.
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The Dáil debates the Budget and the Expert Group report, while the Seanad allows secular bodies to perform civil ceremonies.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
It was reported at the weekend that the Education Minister had indicated that Reilly was “not up to the job” of Minister for Health.
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This evening James Reilly will lead Dáil statements on the report of the Expert Group into the A, B and C ruling.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Reports suggest the property tax will cost homeowners between €200 and €400 a year – but Eamon Gilmore would not discuss the figures in the Dáil this morning.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
The Taoiseach tells Pearse Doherty that cabinet ministers only receive about a tenth of the accommodation allowances that TDs do.
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# leaders-questions - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
But Kenny said the Government is seeking a new deal that is like “a replacement of a bank overdraft with a very long term mortgage”.
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# leaders-questions - Thursday 22 November, 2012
The death of Savita Halappanavar was raised again at Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil this morning.
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# leaders-questions - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
Taoiseach Enda Kenny urged the husband of Savita Halappanavar to meet with the expert heading the inquiry into her death last month but Praveen Halappanavar has reiterated that he will not.
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