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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will not have the opportunity to raise every individual case referred to here with the US administration or the President individually. Clearly, time will not allow for all those things to be debated. However, it will be opportune, given our Presidency, to raise the issue of our concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the issues surrounding that. From a European perspective,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Ireland's corporation tax rate of 12.5% has long been a cornerstone of the attraction of investment to this country. Taxation matters are for each individual country. It is not for me to change the taxation rate applied by any other country. One of the difficulties that has arisen from a European point of view is that corporation tax rates range over a number of rates. They are dependent...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence will, on his return, be well able to report to the House on the areas he has visited.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is only right and proper that the Minister visit Irish troops in the Lebanon-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to present medals to those who have been awarded them for their excellent representation which has been carried out with integrity and competence during the years. A number of years ago, when I was on the other side of the House, I brought the then spokesman on children with me to Israel and Gaza. We saw at first hand the devastation caused by the Israeli invasion some months earlier....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I received a report from Deputies McHugh and Feighan, who met the families. I am aware that an all-party group visited Ms Price recently but I have not yet received an official report from it. I am focused on this issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: We will have the opportunity to raise the blockade of Gaza and the situation which obtains in the latter at the European Council's spring meeting on Thursday and Friday next in Brussels. I will take the opportunity to have discussions with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms Catherine Ashton, who reports to the EU on matters of this nature....
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business is No. 21, Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 1, Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland)(Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' Business shall be No. 91, motion re job creation and economic growth.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I cannot recall the Deputy asking me the number of sections that have commenced-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but we referred here previously to the extent and complexity of the Personal Insolvency Act. As I have told the House, the personal insolvency agency will be open for business in early summer. The director has been appointed. Recruitment is taking place. Arrangements are being made to open this. The Deputy will get the details he seeks tomorrow when the Minister for Finance...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: No. The Deputy asked me the number of sections that had commenced.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have that detail.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The detail of that can be given to the Deputy tomorrow by the Minister for Finance.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not in a position to be able to tell the Deputy-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not in a position to be able to tell the Deputy the number of sections of any particular Bill-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: No. If I give the Deputy a figure and I am out by one, he will say I was incorrect in my address to the House.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants the number of sections that have commenced and the date for the commencement of operation by the insolvency agency. All of that detail is under way. The Minister for Finance will update everybody on that tomorrow.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: That will be next year, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The local government Bill will be a very extensive Bill. It will have to be enacted before the end of this year because of the local elections to be held next year. Deputy Martin asked me about the number of sections of the Personal Insolvency Act that are in operation. It is a little like the time the late Noel Lemass asked my father, who was a Member at the time, how many seagulls flew...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Nonsense.