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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes. It is in one of his songs.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Does Deputy McDonald not remember? I will send on a CD.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised quite a number of questions. As I said, I expressed a view that the potential diminution in J1 visas would be a serious blow to connections between Ireland and the United States and to the opportunity for so many young people to work legitimately in the US and avail of a wonderful experience. We have regular reports from the consulates in the US and the ambassador....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. I regard the comments made by the candidate, Mr. Trump, as absolutely outrageous.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: I condemn them unreservedly in the context of immigrant people. We have 70 million people ourselves worldwide who claim Irish ancestry. Many of those were deported or left because of economic circumstances. Many left because of colonisation and the consequences of the Great Hunger. It is something very deep in the Irish. I commend again our naval personnel, who have taken from the waters...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Pope met Castro.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The fact that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, met a visitor to our country in Shannon does not preclude the Minister from having very strongly differing opinions about comments made by Mr. Trump in respect of immigrant people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The matter of Syria has been discussed at some considerable length at European Council meetings, where the bigger countries in Europe have taken action in respect of the opposition in Syria to the Assad regime. We have discussed this before and everybody is of the view that the Assad regime should go. The latest intervention, involving the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Mr. Lavrov...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will send the Deputy a report of the meeting that is very clear.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 12, motion re proposed authorisation by Dáil Éireann for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to instruct legal representatives; No. 13, motion re Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis; No. 14, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s accession to the memorandum of understanding concerning the principles for...

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: In respect of No. 13, it is just that the Chairman and the committee have requested extra time in which to deal with the report, until 28 January. They requested extra time to draft it.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is not the debate Deputy Martin is looking for at all.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Chairman has made a request on behalf of the committee for further time to draft the report in respect of the statements made before the banking inquiry committee. That is a straightforward request.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Debating that request is irrelevant because the Chairman has asked for time and I am prepared to give him time.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The House can agree on that. In respect of No. 12-----

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The House-----

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: No, no.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin wants to have a debate on something else entirely.