Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Legislation on domestic violence is being updated now. The Istanbul Convention sets out the roadmap and the Minister for Justice and Equality is dealing diligently with the consolidated and reformed domestic violence Bill. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill is in the Seanad today and amendments will be taken. I expect it will come back to the Dáil in the second week in December. It will be a challenging technical position for Ireland, particularly for 2020-2030, and we want to play our part but we also want achievable and realistic targets, given the fact that our profile in the non-traded sector is very different from that of every other European country. It is a real challenge to make everybody understand exactly what that means.

On the question of assistance towards another European country, clearly, any requests that are received will be considered, but there are constraints on Ireland in terms of what we can do as a neutral country. We participate in the EU official training programme as one of 22 countries in Mali and we assist the United Nations as part of peacekeeping missions in the Lebanon, etc. Any decision made by Government on this will, of course, be brought before the House.

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