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- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is at a very advanced stage. The specific and detailed questions that came back have to be answered.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill was approved by the Cabinet last week. I expect it will be published this week.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill were cleared on 2 July last. It is due for publication later in the year.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is due for publication and debate in the House later this year.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am aware of what Deputy Griffin is talking about. We are committed to the introduction of two housing Bills. One of them will be introduced later in the year and the other will be introduced early next year. I hope the question raised by the Deputy can be dealt with between the two Bills.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is one of a number of serious areas where nothing was done for a very long time. Officials in the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Health are discussing the best way to proceed with the Bill that was brought before the House. The Minister has given some personal time to the matter. We will see that it is advanced.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: For 50 years the political system has failed to deal with Seanad Éireann. That is why, having looked at the question of reform of the Seanad, I came to the conclusion that it was not reformable. It either still involves a minority, is discriminatory or a replica of this House. It has no constitutional function in holding the Executive of the day to account. That constitutional...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is the answer to the second question. The answer to the first question is that I do not want to embarrass Deputy Micheál Martin.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin will not walk me down that avenue.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am around long enough to have every faith and belief in the decision of the Irish people.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: The people are being asked a very straightforward question, which is part of the process of changing the way politics should be run in this country which Deputy Martin and his party failed to deal with over the years. We are now, as part of a process of reducing the number of elected councillors with the elimination of town councils-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and by the amalgamation of a number of county councils and by a changing of the relevant electoral areas for those councils, and by reducing the numbers in the Dáil, admittedly by a small number, providing an opportunity to abolish Seanad Éireann and transform this House into what it should be - a Chamber where the elected representatives of the people can hold the Executive to...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is why the changes that are happening here will engage with the Irish people in a way that was never done before, except in the most recent cases of the legislation dealing with the loss of life during pregnancy. Deputy Martin set out his own programme. It is difficult to debate with somebody-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: One day Deputy Martin states his party is for the abolition of the Seanad and wants to get rid of the Seanad and the next day states his party thinks it should be retained.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is always a difficulty to know which Deputy Martin will turn up in a debate, wherever around the country.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would also make the point to Deputy Martin that it was his own party that shot down the proposals put forward for Seanad reform by former Minister, Ms Mary O'Rourke, in 2003.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin could have implemented those with the assistance of those who were in the Progressive Democrats party at the time.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin also shot down the changes that were proposed for the committee system and what he did, in fact, was try to buy them off by having Chairs, Vice Chairs and convenors.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)
Enda Kenny: All of these positions that were paid for by the taxpayer are gone. That is all gone.