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Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Between 2012 and 2015 we allocated €42 million for Syrian aid. The Minister will deal with those issues in greater detail on Question Time.

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach as ucht an cuireadh a thabhairt dom an tseachtain seo. Cuirim fáilte roimh na sean-Seanadóirí agus na Seanadóirí nua atá anseo. As Members are aware, this Government is unlike any other established in Ireland since the foundation of the State. It required a completely new approach based on consultation and building...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: We will be united in victory, of course.

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: I have enjoyed this experience and I thank Senators for the contributions they have made. Some of them have been very valuable and very constructive. My agenda for the future is immediately to deal with the budget and public finances, Brexit, the common travel area, Northern Ireland, our relationship with Britain, the protection of our own national interests and housing and homelessness....

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Afternoon tea, coffee or whatever is the Senator's liking. We will choose an appropriate location, visible of course and-----

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Senator Ó Ríordáin raised a particular matter here. I would like to come back to the Seanad here before the end of the year if I may. We might refer to a number of-----

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----the issues that were raised here, including the McMahon report. We commissioned this report and the learned judge did a fine report. The Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, is dealing directly with refugees. We have had problems with this, not just in Ireland. We have been ready and committed to take 4,000 between relocation and resettlement. It has been very slow starting off. That...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: These are not driving around for nothing. They are people working. The largest cluster of-----

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----medical device centres in Europe is in the Galway area, and I have been caught in those jams myself. NUIG has expanded beyond all recognition. It is a university that has actually climbed up the rankings despite many criticisms, but I take the Senator's point. Obviously, we put €900 million into the capital programme for a relief road for Galway. It is difficult to get...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the all-island conversation that the Senator mentioned, obviously that is a part of where we are. We are going to follow through on that. Let us see whether we can make real headway in terms of the Manning report. I hope that all of the parties will agree to participate. Rather than have this vested in just one Department, it will be the responsibility of the implementation...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: I assure the Senator that collective responsibility of the Cabinet remains as it always was. There is no change in collective responsibility. That has been around since the foundation of the State and I do not intend to change it. When the Government and the Cabinet make decisions by collective responsibility, that stands. That is important. As I indicated in the Dáil to the former...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: Following on from the appointment of the first Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora, Deputy Deenihan, a new Minister of State has been appointed to that role. I will shortly be meeting the officials who deal with this area. I want the issues of voting rights for people in the North in presidential elections and the voting rights of emigrants to be addressed. There are...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: I did not say the Senator is an emigrant. I said I wanted to deal with the issue of voting rights for people in the North in presidential elections and the voting rights of people who live in countries outside of the island of Ireland. I hope I have made myself clear. I will be happy to return to the House again before Christmas to deal with some of the other issues raised, if that is the...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: That issue has been raised in the Dáil and elsewhere. These are matters for the budgetary announcement on 11 October, in the context of which discussions are ongoing between the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform and the other members of the Cabinet. As I said, we have a finite pot. All of these matters will be subject to the budgetary announcement to be made on...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will be happy to do that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: The answer to the first question is "Yes". The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade called in the Russian ambassador last Tuesday and left him in no uncertain terms as to how this country feels about the human catastrophe that is unfolding and has unfolded in Syria and particularly Aleppo. The Minister made perfectly clear our absolute disgust at and abhorrence of the bombing of a United...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: What one has to take into account here is the intention, objective and mentality of President Putin. He invaded Crimea and took it over, although there has not been a word about that since. There has been destabilisation in eastern Ukraine and pressure on a number of other states in that region. In fact, at the European Union meeting in Bratislava two weeks ago, concern was expressed about...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the assertions made by Deputy McDonald at all. She does not seem to have been speaking to her leader. I made a point of briefing the leaders of the Opposition parties, including the leader of the Deputy's party, who complimented the suggestion that there is a need to have a broader conversation rather than confining the conversation to the political parties. For that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy McDonald will recall, on 4 July last the North-South Ministerial Council plenary summit was held here in Dublin. At the meeting, both Governments - because it is the North-South Ministerial Council - signed off on a series of ten particular actions and strategies that we would follow arising from the outcome of the Brexit vote. That matter will be the subject of the next...