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Disability Act 2005. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach led the presentation of this Bill, with the Tánaiste and five other Ministers, when it was published in 2004. He correctly stated it was a key component of the Government's disability strategy and that it had the capacity to deliver world class services for the disabled. Without being political, the problem is that the strategy is dispensed between seven Departments and no...

Social Partnership. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39747/05]

Social Partnership. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent activities of the national implementation body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39750/05]

Social Partnership. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach the proposed work of the National Economic and Social Council during 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39763/05]

Social Partnership. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: We should be able to continue this debate tomorrow, by agreement. Although it is extremely important, it was ruled out due to time constraints. I will be brief. I have four supplementary questions. First, in the Taoiseach's view, how realistic is the prospect of a ten-year national partnership agreement? Second, the Department of Finance's economic review and outlook published in August 2005...

Social Partnership. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Whips can arrange for the House to return to this matter tomorrow.

Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The people have grown tired of the Government's continuing inability to deliver public services. They are equally tired of the Taoiseach's inability to manage their money competently. After nine years of the present Government in office, we are still waiting for a decent health service. Levels of crime are practically out of control, and literacy among children is as bad now as six years ago....

Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: The charge I have made against the Taoiseach is that the failure of the Government to properly evaluate incentives and to have a full cost benefit analysis carried out before any extension has in the past five years cost the taxpayer €1.5 billion. The two mistakes made were non-evaluation of the schemes and no cost benefit analysis was carried out prior to an extension taking place. Four...

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Cuidím leis an rún atá molta ag an Teachta O'Shea. Ba mhaith liomsa go mbeadh díospóireacht ar an nGaeilge.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Is minic a labhraímid Gaeilge anseo, agus ní thagann faic as. Más sin an dearcadh atá ag Páirtí an Lucht Oibre agus na Teachtaí eile, aontaím leo.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Today we read the story of a school that had to pay €10,000 to parents of a child who was bullied. Since I raised the matter of the Martin report on indiscipline in schools, I have received a flood of correspondence from teachers and parents. Indiscipline seems to be endemic in some schools and is an issue that should be debated in this House. When will the Martin report on indiscipline be...

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: His advice to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, to go to the United Nations in an effort to close down Sellafield was the wrong avenue and the Minister is now taking Britain and the European Commission to court.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: This is important.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: It does. I am aware that the Ceann Comhairle is from a land-locked county and that, if Ted Nealon's guide is correct, it is his birthday so I am going to give some flexibility. The advice given by the Attorney General was that it was impossible to introduce administrative fines in the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: I do not know what advice was received but the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, does.

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: Will the Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources be removed to save the Government from embarrassment because of fines imposed by Britain?

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: How can the Minister publicly admit that organised criminality exists in the sea fishing industry and that he is doing nothing about it?

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: In today's newspapers, the Minister with responsibility for the marine states that organised criminality exists in the sea fishing business. In respect of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill, currently in abeyance on Committee Stage——

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: ——what has been done about this organised criminality?

Order of Business. (7 Feb 2006)

Enda Kenny: As one of the Deputies in the Minister's party asked, how can we send a member of the Colombia Three to the United States with a presidential pardon while the son of a fisherman may be banned forever from entering the United States?