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Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Quiet now, you are new in the job.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: This is Dáil Éireann.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I will.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Very good.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: That is a long speech.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Obviously——

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I was about to ask my question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: The perception in Kerry, a Cheann Comhairle, is that you now have no power down there and you want to use your power up here.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I am entitled.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I am. If the Ceann Comhairle wants to continue this——

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I recall your own previous life.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: After all that, I will now ask my question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I would like the Ceann Comhairle to clarify what he has just said, that it is not possible to raise matters in this House about events which occurred in previous times. Is that what he said?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I might remind you that I already broke that rule on the formation of Government when I quoted you speaking about Green Party Members as whacky people who ate munchies and cereals and wore sandals. As that is your own quotation, I have already breached that.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: In view of the arrangements that have been made between the Taoiseach, either as head of Fianna Fáil or on behalf of the Government, with a number of Deputies in the House — including Deputies Finian McGrath, Lowry, Healy-Rae and Flynn — and given that these involve substantial amounts of public money, changes to the national development plan, details of international significance and...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: Can I take it from the Taoiseach's reply that he has allocated sections of the national development plan that might be geographically based to individual Deputies who are or were Independent? If so, will he publish and indicate the sections of the NDP allocated to Deputies Healy-Rae, Lowry and Finian McGrath? Will he confirm that he has no agreement whatsoever with Deputy Flynn in view of...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I wish to propose an amendment to No. 4, to provide that the motion be decided on after a debate not exceeding 30 minutes. The election of a Leas-Cheann Comhairle is a matter of considerable public importance. There should be a debate, not exceeding 30 minutes, on the manner in which the Government has gone about its business in this instance. Electoral mandates should be respected. Given...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach appointed the Ceann Comhairle to that position so he could make arrangements for others to be appointed to the Cabinet. If, as it seems, he is being extremely generous in allocating the position of Leas-Cheann Comhairle to the Opposition, he should have shown the courtesy of informing the leaders of the Opposition parties that he intended to allocate the position of Leas-Cheann...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: It is not agreed. I have already made it perfectly clear in the previous Dáil and at the start of this Dáil that we will not stand for the Government, off the top of its head, declaring that the guillotine will be used on every one of these Bills. The time should be open-ended. This matter is to do with stamp duty, in respect of which the Fianna Fáil party had no interest for the past...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2007)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Taoiseach agrees the Government and House should extend sympathy to the Spanish Government on the loss of six of Spain's members of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in the Lebanon. The tragic event occurred not far from Irish positions.