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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: I would be very happy to withdraw the statement and apologise to Deputy McGuinness. I have to take Deputy Adams's word on this that Deputy McGuinness was here and far be it from me to have the Deputy denounced as not being present when he was, at least for a portion of the time anyway.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Kirk is aware, this matter is deemed to be a priority by the Minister for Finance. The budgetary process will commence shortly. Clearly, we cannot say yet what economic progress the country will make but the question that the Deputy raises is one to be considered as part of the budget. It is one that the Minister has already identified, provided he has flexibility to do something...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for publication of that legislation. There is a process about all of these other matters that the Deputy quite legitimately raises here.

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: First Stage (1 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: Not opposed for Deputy Ferris.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Instructions to Secretaries General (1 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: I have already outlined to the House how the Attorney General brought matters of very serious concern relating to An Garda Síochána to my attention on Sunday 23rd March and the action that I took as a consequence. On Monday 24 March, I asked the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality to convey to the then Commissioner my deep concern about these matters, and...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: First of all, I might bring to the attention of the House the fact that, this morning at the home of the Minister for Justice and Equality, an incident occurred where an item in the post contained-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----anti-Semitic material and a substance which, when analysed, was harmless. I am in this House a long time. We have had members of the Jewish faith here representing the Fianna Fáil Party, the Labour Party and the Fine Gael Party over the years. This has sunk to a new low. I might say for the information of Members of the House as well that a stream of similar material has been...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not in order that this sort of anti-Semitic material is being received by someone who happens to belong to a particular religion in our country irrespective of the political challenges that we have here.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: The question Deputy Martin asked me is this, and it has been cleared on many occasions by the Minister himself. In fact, on numerous occasions on his long stay in here, he indicated clearly that the letter was not furnished to him, was not seen by him and that the Department officials briefed him on the issues of the day, including the Bailey case and including the discovery of the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----although when I spoke to the Minister and the Secretary General, I was coming from a position of having been briefed by the Attorney General on the wide range of issues here, the discovery process, the transcribed tapes and the existence of a much wider systematic business of having tape recordings made in numerous Garda stations all over the country. So, the Minister did not see the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----is of serious concerns to the citizens of this country and Government has moved decisively and swiftly to deal with that. The Minister has cleared up in the House here on a number of occasions the nature of the matters that he discussed, the fact that he did not see this letter, the fact that he was not told about the letter and that he did not get it or see it or receive it until the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----in the same position as I was myself. The point is, he has already referred to this in some detail on a number of occasions in his contribution here to the House.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not want to come to any other conclusion. That is the position. He has no interest in anything other than political damage to the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: There was a case before the Deputy's time in the House when a relation of Deputy Collins, a former Minister for Justice, called in the Garda Commissioner and told him he had two hours to resign or be sacked. I considered it my duty-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: A woman was murdered in west Cork. Her killer is at large, if the killer is alive. There is a court case of very serious substance arising from that murder. It is a live, unsolved case. I was briefed by the Attorney General and if the Deputy thinks I should sit in the Taoiseach's office and not do something about it, he is badly mistaken.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: When I spoke to the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Secretary General, I made it perfectly clear that my concerns were grave, because the transcription of those tapes has serious implications for our international relations, the status of the Garda Síochána and the case in question.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: That is a matter of serious substance.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: When I spoke on Monday evening to both the Minister and the Secretary General-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----I made it perfectly clear that I wanted my concerns communicated to the former Garda Commissioner.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Secretary General did that.