Results 35,941-35,960 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I hear a great deal of talk about the willingness of Sinn Féin to form an Executive. I accept that. Is Deputy McDonald telling me that the DUP does not want to form an Executive? That is the corollary of what she is saying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I can answer the question for Deputy Howlin. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan, has been up there all day. He has been up there for several weeks now, off and on, working with the parties and representing the Government. He is there again today. I will be talking to him later. Deputy Howlin asked me what else I can do. The Deputy should note that if the two...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Howlin suggesting that we go down the old road of incentives and offer a sweet?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: The people have voted. They voted for the parties. Their representatives are in Stormont. There is a requirement to put an Executive together so that we can have leadership from Northern Ireland on the issues that are going to impact on thousands of people arising from Brexit. We know what those issues are because they have been articulated by Northern Ireland businesses, trade unions,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Am I supposed to go up there with the UK Prime Minister, Ms May, take the hands of the leaders and tell them to sit down and put this together? Surely, the Sinn Féin programme and the DUP programme should be meshed in some way? There may be areas where they cannot agree but they should have a common set of objectives.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin asked what else we can do. We will continue to be very active in this regard. As I said earlier to Deputy Micheál Martin, if it means that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: If I have to go up there with the UK Prime Minister, then I will do that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin made the point very clearly that following the collapse of the Executive, the situation is now that there is no leadership at Executive level in Northern Ireland. The Ulster farmers want to know what subsidy the British taxpayer is going to have to put out when Brexit takes effect and the CAP is no longer there. What is the situation for the Erasmus programmes and the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----there is no singular voice. I am not asking for a singular voice. As Deputy Howlin rightly pointed out, there are a whole range of issues that are important to-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----the DUP and to the Sinn Féin Party. There may not be a singular voice, but there must be an agenda that they want reflected in the actions taken for the people that they represent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: It is true to say that Sinn Féin cannot continue not to accept that responsibility and to wait for somebody else to put the Executive together for it. It is time for parties to focus-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----on the real issues and say that these are the things we can agree on, this is what we do not agree on, but here is the complete agenda. In so far as my job is concerned-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: We will continue with our co-guarantorship of the Good Friday Agreement and help them where we can.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: One can bring a horse to water but one cannot make it drink.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 14, inclusive, together. As I have previously reported to the House, I have met with the head of the Commission Brexit task force, Mr. Michel Barnier, on a number of occasions, most recently on 2 March when I visited Brussels. We also continue to have regular ministerial and official-level engagement with Mr. Barnier and the task force, particularly...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: Are we going to take answers first?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will say to Deputy Howlin that the priorities he mentioned have all been referred to in the letter from Prime Minister May to Mr. Tusk triggering Article 50. They have been referred to extensively in the European Parliament paper and have been referred to specifically in the draft regulations published by the European Council and Mr. Tusk. Deputy Howlin mentioned the question of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I have seen reports ranging from low double digits to higher double digits. There has been no detailed discussion about these figures and no outcome has been agreed on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: It is the methodology they are considering in regard to how one might arrive at what the charge would be in respect of participation in the European Union and contracted payments going forward when Britain decides to leave. I have seen the comments from the British Government in respect of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. They are issues that have not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will explain it. There have been over 400 meetings held-----