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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application for the provision of an autistic unit at Newport, County Mayo from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is the only school in the area with an autism class; if she has examined the proposal that has been submitted; when she will issue...

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (26 Apr 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a gaelscoil (details supplied) in County Dublin will get permanent recognition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15660/07]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether, in view of the long waiting lists for primary schools in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin, a review of catchment areas is needed for primary schools in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15661/07]

Election of Ceann Comhairle. (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Ba mhaith liomsa cuidiú leis an rún faoi ainm Ruairí Quinn a mholadh mar ainm don Ceann Comhairle. The convention for many years was that the House would first consider the ability of the outgoing Ceann Comhairle to continue in office given his free pass in terms of re-election. However, that convention was broken by Fianna Fáil in 1973 when the late Deputy Cormac Breslin was...

Nomination of Taoiseach. (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Ba mhaith liom ar dtús mo bhuíochas agus mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil leat, a Cheann Comhairle, as ucht a bheith tofa mar Cheann Comhairle ar an 30ú Dáil. I congratulate you on your appointment as Ceann Comhairle of the 30th Dáil. Coming as you do from Cahirciveen in the deep south, you bring with you a wonderful tradition from a county with which I have strong associations. In fact,...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: It seems to me that significant numbers of this Cabinet are already jaded. I would like to begin by warmly congratulating those appointed to the new Cabinet. Being appointed as a Minister in Government is a privilege reserved for relatively few people and for those chosen today it is a day to celebrate. For their families and friends watching from the Gallery, their appointment or...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: ——and that from here on they will hang together or hang separately. I welcome the new Deputies to this Dáil. Many are young with young families. I have noticed far more buggies around the House in the past few days. I want to welcome especially the new Deputies on the Fine Gael benches and wish them very well. By any standards this was a spectacular election by the Fine Gael Party...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: ——Ireland needs Green economics like a lettuce needs slugs....". Others described the party as "jihadists". Members of the Green Party said "if the PDs pull the plug, who exactly are they going to go into Government with?" They said "the Greens wouldn't touch those opportunists with a barge pole". I suppose that is why they are cycling out to Áras an Uachtaráin as well. They also...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Nothing illustrates the nature of this coalition more than the programme for Government. It accurately reflects the mandate, or lack of mandate, which the two Progressive Democrats got in the election. It is not exactly surprising when one considers that this time the Progressive Democrats did not attempt to negotiate a programme for Government. Consider what their predecessors did and how...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: They are like the L'Oreal independents — because they are worth it.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Every year I go to Kerry and I cycle through the Black Valley and by Canon Sears' church, which Deputy Healy-Rae knows very well. These agreements will not compromise national security. They will not break the financial coffers of the Government. As they have been bought with taxpayers' money, they should be published.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I know now why the Ceann Comhairle is in the Chair. After strangling the Freedom of Information Act, he could not find out himself what was in the Healy-Rae deal. Now he cannot even answer back.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: The people did not vote for the Green Party to keep Fianna Fáil in power. They did not vote for Fianna Fáil to put in the Green Party. A few of them voted for the Progressive Democrats to keep the Green Party out. That is some ringing mandate for a new Government. While Fianna Fáil's organisation on the ground can claim credit for getting its own vote out, the fact is that during the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: On health, broadband, greening the tax code, upskilling workers, supporting single income families and preschool, Fianna Fáil offered nothing other than what they are doing now. The Taoiseach even asserted that the people should congratulate him on the state of the health services.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: There was one policy for which this Government has no mandate, namely, the construction of private hospitals on public land. The last Government did not have a mandate for it and the Green Party voted against it, but it has now been sucked into it. The Government has no mandate for what it is doing. More people in this House voted against that policy than voted for it.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: That has been rejected by the people, but the Government is now privatising the public health service by stealth and running it down when we should all be involved in making sure it becomes world class.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I regret very much that this is the case.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: You are the man who said to me in Dingle many years ago that down here time does not matter at all.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I want to say to the Taoiseach——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I want to wish the Taoiseach the best of luck with his new Cabinet. He can rest assured that he will be held to account in this House on the issues that really matter.