Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In November, for example, I opened the new UCD student centre; attended the European Parliament conference of presidents of the EU; had an EPP meeting in Government Buildings; launched an event celebrating 50 years of the Arts Council's collection and marking 60 years of the Arts Council; opened the Riverbank Centre; attended the official opening of Croí House in Galway which does such important work in heart research and assisting patients; attended the official reopening of the community centre in Galway, which was also attended by many others. I attended the ceremony for the presidential distinguished service awards to the Irish abroad. In addition, and apart from the preparations for the EU Presidency, I met different Prime Ministers and ambassadors. As an example of a non-political issue, I launched the archives of the Lensmen organisation, featuring photographs from 1950. The archive has more than 3 million photographs, taken from the 1960s to the 1980s. There is a whole range of non-political events one attends in the course of one's duty.

As to anything I might have time to attend in my constituency, the protocol section of the Department of the Taoiseach does not involve itself in anything of a local political nature, nor does it attend at party political events that may arise. Over the years it has never been the function of that section to involve itself in or attend at any such functions.

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