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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Since the Deputy has moved to his current position - move he has - he has changed his tune.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy speaks about a lovey-dovey attitude here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is the Dáil, the people's House. Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joe Higgins are perfectly entitled to give out to me if they wish.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: They are perfectly entitled to do so and make their comments on, as Deputy Peter Mathews calls them, the consulting corporate doctors.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is often an articulate and vehement speaker and loses the listening mode to others. I have known him for a long time-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and I respect his work in finance for so many years.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: However, now that Deputy Peter Mathews has become an acquaintance of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett I am perfectly entitled to engage with him.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am as open to meeting the constituents Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett mentioned as I am to meeting the corporate consultancy doctors to whom Deputy Peter Mathews referred because it is all open and recorded, unlike what happened in the past.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Order of Business is No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Ombudsman Act 1980 (section 4(10)) Order 2013; and No. 2, Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members’...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: When the remit of the Ombudsman was being extended last year, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the Ombudsman for Children sought to have the remit of the Ombudsman for Children extended in a similar manner. Accordingly, the Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2012 amended the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002 to align the remits of the two Ombudsmen over public bodies. The Ombudsman's...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party welcomed this move. This is the first time ever that an ombudsman can go into a place of detention or custody to investigate a complaint concerning a child.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes. I have -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have given the Deputy the background and given him -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will not listen. As I said, new legislation was brought in here. The fact of the matter is that the Ombudsman for Children expressed concerns earlier this year and following her concerns, advice was received from the Attorney General on what is a highly complex matter. That advice indicated that the amendments that were made in 2012 had the consequences of precluding the...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: No it was not. There was no deliberate intention here.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Who here was involved? This was new legislation.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants clarity, openness and transparency and I am giving him that.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party welcomed this.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am not missing the point.