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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: This is an embassy that should be reopened. There is an opportunity to do that now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: There are the areas of engineering, airlines, air leasing and food etc. that present real opportunities. I hope they can be followed through. I will be happy to make the point at the European Council meeting for the inclusion of the moderate opposition and the Kurdish groups. We are only a small country but when we had the issue of 30 years of terrorism on this island, it was important...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins has delivered a history lecture. Obviously, the process of colonisation over many hundreds of years has led to bloody warfare and inter-country and inter-tribal wars on so many occasions. History speaks for itself. The Deputy will recall the discussions that took place in 1938 about the protection of the Jewish people and that all the countries in Europe represented at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 8 together. Like public representatives generally, I often meet religious and non-religious leaders informally in the course of attending official and public events. In addition, I meet representatives of religious and other philosophical bodies through a formal structured dialogue process which provides a channel for consultation and communication...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Tá a fhios ag an Teachta go bhfuil níos mó ná 3,000 scoil ar fud na tíre agus gur leo an Eaglais Chaitliceach an chuid is mó dóibh siúd. Is é an tArdeaspag Ó Máirtín féin a dúirt liom go raibh an iomarca scoileanna ag an Eaglais agus gur mhiste leis go mbeadh cuid acu siúd curtha amach i dtreo is go mbeadh daoine in...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a29, statements on the establishment of a statutory commission of investigation into a foster home in the south-east. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. a29 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7.30 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the speech of the...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: On the Deputy's first point on the self-employed, obviously, the Government is well aware of the anomaly that has existed here for some time, with hundreds of thousands of self-employed people without any safety net. I understand completely the difficulties being experienced by self-employed people if something like this happens. That is why the Government started to address this in the...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes but I think he is being perfectly realistic here rather than having to say we can deliver all these things-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I understand but-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I think we are better actually saying it as it is and getting to the next stage to have-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----free GP care for all those under six and over 70 and all children up to the age of 18.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin intends to go around the country in the coming weeks-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----promising, like the Deputy over there, that everything is free and nothing has to be paid for-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes but realism is a fact of life also.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: If he looks at the number of doctors being trained and the numbers involved here, we have delivered it for those over 70 and under six. The next stage is to deliver it for everybody under 18 years of age. I think that is an issue the Minister has addressed realistically.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: The sexual offences Bill has already been dealt with in the Seanad and has been introduced here. I thought it might have been possible to deal with it in its entirety last week, if all the parties could have agreed. However, they were not able to agree because of some amendments coming from the Independent benches.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is not going to see its way through now. There are two adoption Bills which are both on the A list. Work is proceeding with these. The Workplace Relations Bill has already been enacted. In October 2015, the Government published a roadmap for Ireland's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It detailed the legislative changes to be...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Civil society groups and stakeholders are also keen to see the convention ratified. The Minister set out the process by which this could be achieved. We do it differently to other countries.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Legislation involved includes the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill, the Juries Act 1976, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 and Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006. In the mental health legislative area, there is the Mental Health Acts 2001 and 2008, issues about deprivation of liberty, the Electoral Act 1992 and the Companies Act 2014. The Bill in question will address the...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Dáil will sit at 9.30 in the morning. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, will be taking questions.