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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will be welcome when the facility is opened.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I want to talk about the questions in respect of the Seanad. Deputy Micheál Martin might send me the list of Bills he believes are going to be guillotined. The Chief Whip has set out a very long list of legislation that we need to get through before the end of this session.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I hope that far from obstructing Bills like the bankruptcy Bill the Deputy will co-operate and see they are put through in the interests of everybody. I had a view about the Seanad that I would have liked to have seen it abolished. The people gave me their answer and I accepted it. Following that, I was very grateful to former Senators Manning and O'Toole, Mr. Tom Arnold, Dr. Elaine...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do accept it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: They made the point that the time to implement the report would be after the next Seanad general election. Perhaps the Deputy did not read the report. He clearly has a very different viewpoint, as does Deputy Gerry Adams. There is no point in getting into a long, contentious argument, which is what all the other reports about Seanad Éireann have led to over 40 years, about what to do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that we agree the Seanad needs reform in the way it does its business. A number of issues were mentioned in that report by people who have long experience and which are very much worth noting. They did say we should implement it after the next Seanad general election. I am not going to be as presumptuous as the Deputy. His party, from what I can gather from his spokespeople,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That assumes the Deputy intends to lead his party to an overall majority in the election in the spring. Good luck to him. As far as I am concerned, I do not want to be in any way presumptuous but if it happens that the Government I have the honour of leading is returned by the people, which is a matter for them, this is a report which I look forward to implementing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is welcome any time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The working group, which I commended very strongly, recommended that if the report was to be implemented, it should be done after the next general election. Former Senators Manning and O'Toole, and the former Minister, Mary O'Rourke, made very cogent arguments as to why this should be but also as to what it would mean for the electorate and the way it might do its business. Deputy Gerry...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Micheál Martin was speaking about himself and had said that he was invited by a television station to debate certain issues with me and that he accepted that. He was talking about himself.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Fair enough, but he said-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy actually said he was not speaking about himself-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I look forward to the opportunity to have debates with you all - everybody.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy the Leader of the Opposition or is it Deputy Gerry Adams?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Micheál Martin the Leader of the Opposition or is it Deputy Gerry Adams?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: RTE is entitled to its own opinion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned, I debate political issues every day of the week-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: ----- and, in some cases, far more robustly than what the Deputy does in here. Be that as it may, the Deputy has a particular slant he wants to follow at all times. I suppose he is entitled to that. We have a series of really important pieces of legislation to put through between now and the end of this session. I hope co-operation will be forthcoming from the Opposition parties on these...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I hope we do not have to guillotine-----