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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: What Deputy Burton seems to want here is that we would just employ numbers. I am giving her the first output, which is the triggering of Article 50 and the letter from the British Prime Minister. That reflects all the priorities we have, as a country. It is embellished by the British Government saying it does not want to do anything to harm Ireland. It talks about no return to a hard...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: One can have big numbers but the outcome here is the first tranche of what we know we need, which is that our priorities are reflected in these documents.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Gibraltar is in there and, obviously, there is a reference to Cyprus. Every Prime Minister and every government knows that we have a single peace process and that there is a unique situation here. They know we are not going back to the Border of the past and they understand what the Good Friday Agreement is about. As Deputy Burton well knows, that does not happen just by assuming people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: We have 100 people in the permanent representation in Brussels. Their single focus now is Brexit and they are meeting officials every day about elements of this. The sections in every Department dealing with Brexit, be they small or large, are focusing on the issue that is really of importance to us. The Deputy made the point in a different way that the fact there is no Executive in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I do not agree at all with this. Gibraltar does not have an internationally legally binding agreement. What happens to the status of Gibraltar is a matter between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain. That is a bilateral matter. Gibraltar joined the European Union when Britain joined the European Union. We already know about - it is referred to in the documents from Prime...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The nature of that agreement will decide the nature of the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom. Britain wants to have as close a relationship as possible with us. We support that because that would suit us.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The following table details the external consultant reports commissioned by my Department since March 2011: Name Costs Date of Commission Date of Publication Consultant Health and Safety Statement 2011 €1,270 2011 2011 QTS Limited Health and Safety Statement 2012 €1,270 2012 2012 QTS Limited Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan Assessment and Disabled Access Review...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Fennelly Commission's final report was published on my Department's website on 6 April 2017.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish the Gaeltacht and the Islands has met on two occasions since the formation of the Government, on the 13th of October 2016 and on the 27th of February 2017.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: My Department does not own any properties. Properties occupied by my Department and the National Economic and Social Development Office are provided and managed by the Office of Public Works.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Workplace Relations Commission (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The relevant agency insofar as my Department is concerned is the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). There have been no adjudications or findings of the Workplace Relations Commission in respect of the NESC in the years 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017.

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: This is part of the challenge we face as a society and as a Government in delivering and providing services for people in a various categories who have real problems in this regard. I have been down to visit Brother Kevin at the centre on a number of occasions. He is an extraordinary man and he has been doing this work for years. Obviously, the numbers who turn up at his centre speak for...

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: There are children who have challenges and particular difficulties from different parts of the country. Every local authority has at its disposal finance and services to provide in the best way possible for those children, and there are some with very particular difficulties, as the Deputy is well aware. The Government has made the decision to provide €5.3 billion to deliver social...

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is well aware of the scale of the challenge in building the houses that were not built following the total collapse of the construction sector some years ago.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I want to congratulate the deputy leader for cynical outrage in her consistency, at least. She comes in here time after time and talks about privatisation of the water system. I described it yesterday as fantasy and she is at it again today.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald's leader and party made it perfectly clear that Sinn Féin supported water charges and that Sinn Féin would pay its water charges.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is not here today. I hope that he is in Belfast making arrangements for the Sinn Féin party to come together with the DUP and form a working Executive. We have other matters to consider besides the kind of carry-on that Deputy McDonald is on about this morning.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am glad that the committee, which was set up for a specific purpose, has agreed a report. The process is democratic and Sinn Féin is a very democratic party.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: It had other ways of dealing with the middle ground before. They are all democrats, abide by the law and understand that. The committee set up for that purpose has made its recommendation and its report. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government will now proceed to provide legislation to deal with the recommendations that are in that report. I differ from...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald lives in a world where when the tap is turned on, somebody else has paid for it. That is what she wants.