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Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: In most cases families themselves placed these girls and young women in foster homes.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Absolutely. If we are to try to get this right, we had better look at exactly what we are doing here.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: No, I am not.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am saying if we want to get it right, we need to look very carefully at what we are actually doing.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: All of those who gave birth to their children, many of whom were stillborn and many of whom did not live very long-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: We know the scale of this in Tuam. It is not a case of wanting to make political point scoring on a matter as sensitive as this. I meant what I said yesterday. I do not want to see long after I have left here some future Taoiseach having to say in the Chamber that we have had more of this. If we have to take some further little time to get this as right as possible in the national...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----but it is in our interests to get it right.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Whatever decision is made will have implications in terms of time and cost.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Tá mé ag éisteacht.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Tá fhios agam go maith céard atá ag teastáil ag baint leis seo and that was the reason the commission of investigation was established. That has its independence with wide-ranging terms of reference. It has not actually reported its official findings yet, nor has the coroner declared what he considers the next step to be and the Garda has independent responsibility. ...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Government is willing to try to get this as right as possible. Every case that is brought to light has different circumstances attached to it. If the numbers are as large as has been surmised, then we need to reflect on how best to do this from Ireland's point of view. Ireland's shameful past is again in the spotlight. We are charged with the responsibility to get answers to these...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Far from insulting the women of Ireland, I want to stand by finding out answers to these particular problems and particular questions. It is beneath you to take that line, Deputy Connolly. The Garda has a duty. We will certainly contact the Garda if that site is not sealed off already.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I have not read the interim report the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, has. I am quite sure she is in consultation with people about this. I see no reason the report cannot be published, the same as any other report. It may have to be in some redacted form. I do not know because I have not seen it or read it. I am quite sure the Minister will answer for...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: That is a speech the Deputy should give outside Beaufort church.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: He covered the whole range there. I remember the Deputy’s late lamented father stamping his heel at the top of Com an Chiste, saying, “Look at the state of the road here”, when the buses could not pass each other and the road was all cracked. That is all improved, as the Deputy is aware.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: When Deputy Danny Healy-Rae goes to Páirc Uí Chaoimh on 3 July to see the new stadium which the Government has given assistance to the GAA to build, he will pass through Macroom. He will be glad to know that the contractors have been appointed for the preliminary design of the Macroom bypass. It will not be done by the time he is coming back in victory or defeat from Páirc...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: The cutting of the hedges is absolutely the responsibility of the local authority in so far as the public roads are concerned. Responsibility for the cutting of hedges along national primary and national secondary roads obviously lies with the Department and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII. Kerry County Council is perfectly entitled to set out a programme for hedge cutting on public...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy's question in respect of women only or the entire programme?

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I know that but the note the Deputy has sought is it-----