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Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Kelleher might suddenly come to life and say this is not true but it is true. I can produce the list.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: There were not sufficient speakers from the Opposition to fill the time. That is the first point.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin mentioned the matter of the abolition of the Seanad. I would love to see a situation where we could have a position where the Government would send the heads of Bills to committees.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy never listens.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: You never listen.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy might listen to what he voted for, if he wants some of his own medicine back here.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Of course you did. The Deputy supported a position when a former Member, Mary O'Rourke, whom I heard on the radio recently, brought in a report about the Seanad. The Deputy could have implemented all those reforms if he had wanted to do so. He and a former Tánaiste, Michael McDowell, had three years to do that but they did nothing about it. Second, he put in place a system where he...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Fianna Fáil working group that the Deputy voted for and supported wanted 15 minutes for the Order of Business, two hours advance notice of Leaders' Questions and holidays from mid-July to mid-September.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin was centrally involved in the discussions with the former Minister, John Gormley, and the former Minister, Tony Killeen, about the position in so far as the abolition of Seanad Éireann was concerned, but when he had the opportunity he did not deal with it.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am talking about the Deputy and the abolition of the Seanad.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: In fairness Deputy Martin, the best comment I heard about this came from Deputy McGrath-----

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----a la Winston Churchill, when the Deputy said we will fight this on the beaches, on the streets, in the constituencies, in the House and around the country. Deputy McGrath will be welcome in all parts of the country to deal with his proposition.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I also listened to Deputy Ó Snodaigh talking about the same thing and I recall Deputy Doherty, in his strident comments, saying that he had used the opportunity in the Seanad to further the causes and the politics of his party. He said some people might find that hypocritical. He went in there, he said, to use the system but at the same time he called for its abolition. Deputy Ó...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I want to be clear on this, I will deal with the question of guillotines. We have had at least 16 Bills where the Opposition failed to provide sufficient speakers. We are going to move to a position very shortly-----

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----where this Dáil will have to work far more effectively, have to use the hours we are in here far better in terms of both the legislation and the work that we have to do.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I give Deputy Martin my assurance that I would like to see a position where-----

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Bills were guillotined previously. Time after time the Opposition has failed to provide sufficient speakers for the debate to extend to even the time that was proposed for a guillotine.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Budget Measures (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: In the context of the forthcoming Budget, the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform has asked my Department to identify savings which will feed into the expenditure decisions by Government for the Estimates 2014 and the setting of future Ministerial ceilings. The identification of savings options should ensure that a sufficient range of proposals are made by all Departments to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: There is no Ombudsman under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Waste Generation Survey (11 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Waste Generation Survey 2012 is being undertaken by the CSO to meet EU legal requirements on reporting waste statistics. The relevant legal act is Commission Regulation (EC) No.2150/2002 of 25 November 2002 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 849/2010 of 27 September 2010. The survey will provide comprehensive information on the types and volumes of waste being produced by the...