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Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am disappointed that, on an issue as fundamentally important as this, the Taoiseach has rejected an offer to sit down and work out an alternative, which can be achieved, and not proceed down this road of economic madness.

Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: As the Taoiseach is set on this road, perhaps he might answer a few questions. We are proceeding to commence with a debate on the Government's NAMA Bill, which will not be the legislation that will emerge at the end of this process, principally because the Taoiseach's partners in Government and members of his own party have yet to decide what further changes they will demand. Will the...

Suspension of Member (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: This country will have to borrow approximately €22 billion this year. This amounts to approximately €4 million per 16-hour waking day. This 15 minutes has cost us €1 million.

Order of Business (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: I oppose the Order of Business on the basis that the Bill being presented to the Dáil today - namely, the National Asset Management Agency Bill - is not the Bill that will emerge at the end of the process, for the simple reason there is no common agreement on this Bill among the constituent parties of the Government or even among the members of the major party in Government. I am also...

Order of Business (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----with no bailout for mortgage holders or taxpayers. I am equally concerned about the absence of any independent review by the Oireachtas of this or any other proposal that may come from the Bill. In essence, it is a proposal to shift between €50 billion and €60 billion onto the backs of Irish taxpayers. This is not how we should do business. I am opposed to the Order of Business...

Order of Business (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: I repeat that no piece of legislation that has gone through this House since the foundation of the State has ever cost in the region of what this is likely to cost, whether €40 billion, €50 billion or €60 billion. The Bill presented to us today will eventually be debated by force of vote in the House. As I understand it, the Bill does not have the total support of the Government, nor...

Order of Business (16 Sep 2009)

Enda Kenny: I wish to put a question to the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: I agree with these. I am glad to see Ambassador Jana from South Africa in the House. No. b11 is a simple motion for the recognition of Mandela day, which is based on a request from President Zuma of South Africa, and we respect that request. Nelson Mandela was an international icon of persistence, dedication, truth and equality. We fully support No. b11 and it might have been preferable to...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle knows it is not agreed. Amendment No. 4 of 43 is being discussed at present and some of the amendments tabled have very serious import. Yesterday, I made the point that the guillotine has been used on 18 Bills out of 21 in the final four weeks of this session and four of those Bills have potential constitutional implications, namely, the Criminal Justice (Amendment)...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: Deputy James Reilly has informed me that the consequences of this Bill include the fact that while retailers may be in breach of the law in respect of the display of cigarettes, there is a writing-down of the penalty in a number of areas. He does not object to that. However, can I have confirmation that this does not include the sale of cigarettes to minors? I am informed that inherent in...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is a case of another Bill being rammed through by use of the guillotine. We have made this point on many occasions but let me repeat that 18 Bills out of 21 have been rammed through by guillotine in the past four weeks and I object to this.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: I do not expect that of all the items on the Order of Business there will be agreement on this one and for very good reason, beyond the usual reason of just having a vote for the sake of having one. In April the Chief Whip told the House that the Government would publish 26 Bills of which 17 were published leaving nine unpublished, including the employment agencies regulation Bill, the...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am not just saying this for the sake of having a vote. I really mean it. I assume that the proposed date of 16 September is because of the publication of the NAMA legislation, or that the House is coming back to discuss that legislation. Last week the German Government put through its legislation dealing with their bad banks and it has already settled on a price level from mid-2008 for the...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I have. I am waiting for a response from the Tánaiste's Department, principally, in respect of the document produced by Fine Gael and Deputy Coveney. The Taoiseach said he would get a considered opinion on our proposals as to how we can protect 80,000 jobs and create 100,000 jobs. That is something I await with interest.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: We have had a litany of eminent persons from the Fianna Fáil Party - Deputy Andrews, Deputy Kennedy, Deputy O'Keeffe, Deputy McGrath, Deputy Aylward, Deputy Kelly and Deputy Byrne - saying rightly that the McCarthy report should be published. If the Taoiseach did not want it published he should have said to Mr. McCarthy at the outset, "I don't want to see your report and don't come here...

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: It is only a list of recommendations. We do not know the full extent of what it contains but I believe-----

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----that the public is entitled to know what it is the Cabinet will have to discuss.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach should publish it and let everybody see what is in it-----

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----because we will find out sooner or later. We all have a job to do in respect of the Lisbon referendum.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2009)

Enda Kenny: Do not mislead the public by allegations of this, that or the other.