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Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the procedures in place in his Department in respect of the use of the Government jets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43900/06]

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for outlining the procedures involved. Where are the Government jets normally housed? Are they in a hangar at Baldonnel or Dublin Airport? Will the Taoiseach tell the House the number of occasions in 2006 on which the jets travelled from Baldonnel to Dublin Airport? These are short hop trips which add to their wear and tear. There is a perception that the Taoiseach...

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Why is it not normal procedure for Ministers, exalted and absent, to travel to Baldonnel to make use of the facilities of the ministerial air transport service from there, as distinct from having the jets fly from Baldonnel to Dublin Airport in order that Ministers can be whisked away to exotic places to do business for Ireland? That is the perception. I am not saying the Taoiseach would...

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy O'Dea, has other ways of going. It might be no harm if some of the people concerned had to contend with the reality of everyday travel on the ground, so to speak. Where are the jets housed? How many times do they have to travel from Baldonnel to Dublin Airport for the purpose of picking up Ministers flying away to change the world? Will the Taoiseach make it part of...

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Is the Taoiseach nervous about it?

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: It is a good job Ireland won against England because they lost against France and Munster lost in Thomond when the Taoiseach was there.

Ministerial Air Transport Service. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: The train is the job for Belfast. It is a great service.

Northern Ireland Issues. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the MacEntee commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43902/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach is aware that the MacEntee inquiry was established to investigate why Garda investigations were wound down in 1974 following the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and why certain leads were not followed up, including information relating to a person who stayed at the Four Courts Hotel between 15 and 17 May of that year and his contacts with the UVF and information relating to a British...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Later today the House will debate emergency legislation to prevent predators using the Internet to meet children for sexual relations and to reinstate the offence of soliciting a child for sex. It is clear that the Government's frantic rush to bring in this legislation has only come about because of initiatives taken on this side of the House. Last week the leader of the Labour Party,...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: I welcome the publication of the Bill, about which there has been no contact with the Fine Gael Party. Last year, the Taoiseach went to the United Nations on official business while the Tánaiste conducted business here. Following the release of the child rapist before rearrest, the people of the country were convulsed with horror at what was happening, and they took to the streets in huge...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: As the Taoiseach knows, when one talks to people throughout the length and breadth of the country, from Dublin to Kerry, and asks them about this matter, they are absolutely appalled that the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the deputy leader of the Government, would suggest that soliciting a child for sex was a minor offence. How in heaven's name could anybody...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: He is the deputy leader of the Government. Does the Taoiseach consider it a minor offence? Is the Taoiseach prepared to say, on behalf of the Government, which, after all, is supposed to make collective decisions, that this was a wrong and inappropriate comment by the Tánaiste? Is he prepared to say, on behalf of the Government, that he is sorry for any offence caused to the Irish people...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach reject the Tánaiste's remark?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: In respect of No. a4, while I welcome the fact that this Bill is being brought in, may I ask the Taoiseach was this approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday last? The reason I ask is there was no contact at all with at least the Fine Gael Party about this matter and one would have thought there would have been such contact out of normal courtesy on a Bill, especially a Bill as sensitive as this,...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Will the Aviation Regulation Bill, which is due some time in 2007, cover the Government's failure to act on its own promise to see that the airports at Cork and Shannon will be debt free once Aer Rianta is restructured? The then Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, may not have meant this when he wrote his letter. It seems there is something radically wrong on the other side of the...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: ——when the Government gives a commitment and then does not stand by it. It drives the people of Cork and Shannon into convulsions.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: Will the Aviation Regulation Bill deal with the——

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: ——clearance of debt for Cork and Shannon airports?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2007)

Enda Kenny: So it will not deal with that.