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Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: While I am at it and while I am on my feet-----

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----I tell Deputy Healy-Rae as a Kerryman that he should be very proud of the achievements of Colm "The Gooch" Cooper over the years. We wish him well in his retirement.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I received a letter from Deputy Micheál Martin and Deputy Gerry Adams to meet further about the decision in principle that we took to hold a commission of investigation into NAMA. I intend to honour those letters and have that meeting. I have pointed out that such a commission would be limited by jurisdiction and by virtue of some legal impediments, perhaps, to having all of the...

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Preparatory work has been under way for some time on it. I will advise the Deputy of the up-to-date position.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. The Cabinet Committee on EU Affairs last met on Wednesday 8 March, the day before the European Council meeting in Brussels. The date of the next meeting of the Cabinet committee has not yet been confirmed. I attended the Rome Summit on 25 March, as well as an audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican the previous evening....

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: As has been the norm for many years, we always have an opportunity to discuss the agenda for Council meetings before they are held and for Deputies to make comments on them. The Government will published a more detailed document before 29 April. I do not have the exact date now but I will come back to the Deputy with it. I disagree with the Deputy that the document circulated by the EU...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The British Prime Minister wrote in her letter that the United Kingdom does not want to do anything to harm Ireland. It is not a soft assurance. It is written as part of a formal letter never written before in triggering Article 50.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: She also makes points in respect of the Border, the peace process, the common travel area and priorities that have been identified between the Irish and British Government - between Dublin and Downing Street - for quite some time. These are not soft assurances at all. They are written, specific intentions from the British Prime Minister's point of view. That is correlated on the other side...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: When people voted for this in 1998, they voted on the basis of an expectation of the continuation of European Union rights. That applies from the referendum North and South. It is something we want to protect and which will be protected. I want to see in the negotiated outcome the language of the portion of the Good Friday Agreement relevant to the future opportunity that may present...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I said before 29 April. I will give the Deputy the date.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure what colour it will be but it will be a far more detailed document than anything we have published to date.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I did not see the drafting of the document from the Tusk point of view but we had quite a deal of discussion about it at COREPER diplomatic level, senior official level and so on. Ireland had a direct input into the section of the Tusk paper that refers to our priorities in respect of Northern Ireland and the special and unique circumstances that apply there. When I was in Spain last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: We did not discuss any veto. I understand and accept that any change in the status of Gibraltar is a matter for bilateral discussion between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain. If the Spanish Government goes beyond that in its views, it is a matter for the Government. Any change in the status, from our point of view, is a matter bilaterally between Spain and the United Kingdom....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 and 7 together. The Cabinet Committee on the economy, trade and jobs last met on 27 February this year. The next Cabinet committee on economy, trade and jobs is scheduled to take place next Monday morning.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: They are different.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I did not expect-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----that the Deputy would accept it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I accept that, Deputy McDonald. Of course.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Do not try to divert the argument. I accept that completely.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Then what is Deputy McDonald saying?