Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will repeat that the political reform committee established the budgetary scoping committee which will set the terms of reference for the budgetary committee. The Minister outlined his road map in that regard. I note the point Deputy Adams makes about the McMahon report. I do not want to get into any conflict here, either with Deputy Adams or anybody else, but I have appointed a Minister of State, Deputy David Stanton, to deal with immigration, migration and the question of direct provision. Just because it is not mentioned in the programme for Government does not mean the Government does not have every intention to follow through on it because it has. The Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality will deal with this. It is a case of understanding that the programme for Government contains 600 to 700 commitments and, obviously, one could put another 1,000 along with that if one wanted to. We are committed to the implementation of the McMahon report.

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