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- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I invite the Deputy to send a list of the ailments he has in mind to the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Alex White, who is now dealing with this matter. He is preparing the necessary legislation and I am sure he is willing to receive the information from the Deputy.
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The matter can be considered. The Minister would like to be fair to everybody. It may well be that there could be legal implications associated with the setting of the date. The Minister will consider the question raised during the preparation of the finance Bill.
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Two days in a row - the Deputy is doing well. The Government is seriously interested in expanding tourism facilities and tourist numbers because of the industry's economic potential. Without knowing all of the details, I suggest the Deputy should raise the matter with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the form of a Topical Issue, provided that the Ceann Comhairle gives...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is aware that the Minister has been at pains to point out that there is no health issue involved for the consumer. That was his first comment. The requirement is to get to the bottom of this issue and to ascertain the facts and truth. Studies and tests carried out by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland have been exceptionally competent. It is because of the nature and the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware tests showed 75% equine DNA in Polish-labelled raw material at Rangeland Foods in Monaghan. The Minister has requested a special investigation unit at the Department to pursue this along with the Garda. Obviously there is information which leads the Department and the Minister to make this decision. The focus is on the full supply chain involved. The Minister has been...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the FSAI.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is wrong when he says 75% of the burgers were equine DNA; it was 75% of the ingredient as a raw material which was Polish labelled which was 75% equine DNA. This is different to the way Deputy Martin presented it and he should get it right. It is also important to note that in the case of Silvercrest there is a clear paper trail involved which suggests the product was...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: With regard to who is conducting the investigation, it is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the FSAI which conducted the tests in the first place. I point out again to Deputy Martin it is because of the high level of professionalism and competency of these tests that this was determined in the first instance.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin is now saying the FSAI DNA tests are not up to standard then prove it.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: These are the tests that determined equine DNA in the ingredient. Deputy Martin came in here and stated that 75% of the burgers were equine. It is the raw ingredient which was labelled either Polish verified by paper trail, or labelled and sourced through a meat importer here, which now must be determined.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This needs to be done and dealt with. A number of plants here are approved for slaughtering horses and I am assured by the Department that no horse material is used in Irish burgers-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and clearly this has been the case.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is the ingredient which was sourced by paper trail from Poland or labelled as a Polish raw ingredient.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: First of all, I want to thank Senator Martin McAleese, his assistant Ms Nuala Ní Mhuircheartaigh and the team involved in putting together the McAleese report into the Magdalen laundries. It is important to note that it was only in July last year that this Government initiated action to have such a report compiled and produced. Clearly, Deputy McDonald has not yet had an opportunity...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald should read the report. I have no intention of going down her route of wanting to make some kind of political football about this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What I refer to here is the truth and reality, which has now been uncovered and laid out for everyone to read and to understand, to discuss and debate arising from the McAleese report. It might interest the Deputy that just over 10% of those who attended Magdalen laundries were sent there by families, while 19% of those residents in the Magdalen laundries went in there themselves. As I...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out to the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out to the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ----- the youngest person to be admitted was nine years of age and the oldest was 89 years of age. This is not a report for any kind of glib remarks but is a report-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not suggest she made such a remark.