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Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not speak for the Revenue Commissioners, nor does Deputy Adams. They have very extensive powers under the Act which set them up.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Revenue Commissioners are well able to speak for themselves. They initiated 33 investigations as a direct result of the data given to them by the French authorities in June 2010, and 20 settlements have been reached in regard to those data. That amounts to €4.55 million.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: A further €174,442 was received in payment on account in respect of two ongoing investigations. Deputy Adams is asking me to question the authority or the way the Revenue Commissioners have gone about investigating information that they were given by the French authorities, in respect of which they have taken three criminal cases. Another case is under criminal investigation.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Committee of Public Accounts, with its Chairman, can reflect upon this. The Revenue Commissioners are completely independent in the way they do their business-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and have very extensive powers to take criminal cases, which they have done under what they said here. In respect of the Deputy's second comment, Mr. Geoghegan-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The person mentioned was referred to by the Minister for Finance. He advised, not in respect of taxation issues, but in respect of the remuneration of senior executives and other issues of the strategy proposed by NAMA.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I tend to constantly remind Deputy Adams of this because every time------

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, will answer that question when he replies to questions here.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not know in their entirety the conversations any Minister has had. I assure the Deputy that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, has been very clear-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----about the work that the person he appointed was asked to do, and that was in respect of the strategy proposed by NAMA. I remind the Deputy again that every time he speaks in the Chamber he has all the answers to all of the questions.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: He is the person who continues to say that the EU should take its money and go away-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and does not want the Irish people to get back money they put into AIB.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I remind him of those two black holes in his economic policy and I will remind him of them every day I can do so.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The first comment I make to Deputy Daly is that the reason she can bring her Bill in here is that the Government reformed Dáil procedures to allow for backbench Deputies like herself-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----to be able to bring Bills before the House. It is right and proper, and it is the Deputy's right to bring a Bill before the House. This is a very sensitive matter and all these cases are quite tragic for the woman, in particular, who is involved, the mother of the unborn child. However, Deputy Daly does not own the Constitution and neither do I. She cannot change the Constitution and...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: As I have said to Deputy Daly, the reason she has the right to bring a Private Members' Bill before the House is because the Government reformed the way we want to do business here.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy chose to bring this Bill before the House, as is her right and entitlement.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The eighth amendment to the Constitution is very clear and it refers specifically to where there is a threat to the life of the mother. I cannot change that and neither can the Deputy. It is a matter for the people to decide by a vote. The Deputy expects that the House will follow her advice and proposal and pass her legislation - clearly it is in conflict with the Constitution - and have...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The discussion starts about the entire issue with respect to the eighth amendment. I do not propose to go there, arising from the Deputy's Bill. Clearly, on the advice of the Attorney General, the Bill is unconstitutional. It has been a long-standing tradition over very many years that the advice of the Attorney General is given as formal legal adviser to the Government.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Of course, the Deputy can have all the legal advisers she likes. I have one and it is the formal legal adviser to the Government, the Attorney General. On that basis, I do not propose to publish the advice given by the Attorney General.