Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the latter, I might say that this was a focus of intense discussions this week by the Tánaiste representing the Government at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting. It will be discussed again on Thursday and Friday in Brussels as part of the European Council meeting there. We hope that the diplomatic initiative that is currently under way can bring a stop to this. Clearly, there are very complex issues involved.

In respect of the expert report group arising from the A, B, C case of the European Court, I outlined yesterday for Members of the House the opportunities that will present themselves for everybody to have their full say on this. To those who say that it took this unfortunate and tragic death for something to happen, I would remind Deputy Boyd Barrett that when the Government was established, part of the programme for Government was that an expert group would be commissioned to report into the options that arise from the decision of the court in the A, B, C case. That report was presented to the Minister last week. We will bring it before Government next week and it will be published. Discussions will take place here and everybody will have an open-ended opportunity to say as much as they want in respect of their views about the options that are presented in the report.

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