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- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----following the process down here. Now, let me repeat what I said to Deputy McDonald yesterday. Deputy Wallace now tells me that he has facts. He now tells me that he has been checking with his sources. He has a duty and a responsibility to bring that to the attention of the accountable body in this Oireachtas, and that is the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Wallace is making allegations and assumptions in the middle of which he said he had facts. Well, I say to Deputy Wallace-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----he has a duty to bring those allegations or those assertions or those facts to the accountable body in this Oireachtas, that is, the Committee of Public Accounts. The Chairman, who is present, with his members has full authority to follow through on those allegations-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----assertions or assumptions that Deputy Wallace makes.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: As I understand it, there is no basis for any criminal charge that I have heard, either against NAMA or anybody associated with it or the Minister for Finance or anybody in the Department of Finance.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Wallace has evidence to the contrary, he should bring it to the attention of the Garda if it is criminal or bring it to the attention of Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----John McGuinness, Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts in the Oireachtas.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is Deputy Wallace's duty and responsibility, and everybody-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----will be supportive of that-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----but we need to hear more than allegations or assertions or assumptions.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Wallace has facts and he has sources that he can check are authentic, he should bring them to the notice of the Chairman.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 15a, motion re events at Ballymurphy in 1971 and legacy issues; No. 43, statements on Northern Ireland; No. 41, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to adjourn at 7 p.m. if not previously concluded; No. 42, Children (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 1,...
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: The procedure every Wednesday is for a sos for one hour. The people who work here and service this House are entitled to a break. It is standard procedure and I reject the assertion made by Deputy Coppinger. The staff who service the Houses of the Oireachtas are entitled to their break like everybody else.
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald is entitled to make her point. The purpose of the Bill is to transpose the offshore safety directive 2013/30 which follows the European Commission's review of offshore oil and gas operations in Europe, which in turn was prompted by the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. Our principal safety legislation is the Petroleum Exploration and Extraction...
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: It would negatively impact on Ireland's ability to engage with the European Commission over the coming months in the debate on how the important matter of financial liability for environmental damage will be addressed by regulators and it would send a negative signal to industry in advance of the 2015 Atlantic licensing round which closes for application on 16 September. Following...
- Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the last question, obviously the Government does not dictate to NAMA what legal cases might arise or how NAMA might contest any legal cases. The case Deputy Martin mentioned went to the Supreme Court and NAMA lost. Obviously the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts is fully entitled to have representatives of NAMA before that committee and bring the transparency, which...
- Events at Ballymurphy in 1971 and Legacy Issues: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: I move:That Dáil Éireann: supports the Ballymurphy families in their quest for the truth through an Independent Panel of Inquiry concerning the context, circumstances and aftermath of the events in August 1971 in which eleven people died in Ballymurphy in West Belfast; disagrees and is disappointed with the decisions by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in April 2014...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to open this debate on Northern Ireland. The House has just agreed an all-party motion in support of the Ballymurphy families and their quest for the truth about what happened to their loved ones who were killed over the course of a number of terrible days in Ballymurphy in August 1971. Their stories are a stark reminder of the horrors of the Troubles and the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh. Tá mé buíoch díot as ucht an cuireadh teacht anseo agus tá mé sásta a bheith ag freastal ar an ... ag an chomhcoiste. I am pleased to appear before the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis following the direction, which was given pursuant to section 67 of the House of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes. Obviously, I've read it. Well, your question is about the stability of the public finances and I think it's a very relevant question. I make the point that we've always believed in sound public finances together with an unrelenting focus on national competitiveness, that these are the conditions that would apply for, you know, lower interest rates, high level of investment and, as a...