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Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress on implementing those elements of An Agreed Programme for Government for which his Department is responsible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34099/04]

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Regarding the programme for Government, there is a good deal of concern about the way the country is moving. It moved so fast in ten years that it is unable to cope with the whole concept of planning for the nation's future. We have never had a proper discussion in this House about the national spatial strategy, be it good or bad, about its implementation, about the impact of gateways, hubs...

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for that. There are however three areas on which we do not seem to have any national perspective — waste, energy and communications. Regarding waste, some landfills have been closed while others are opening up. Some can take waste only from specific areas while others are wide open, yet the Government is dealing with Dublin's waste problem by sending 200,000 tonnes of...

Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I want to propose an amendment to the effect that time be set aside today from, say, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., for a statement to be made to the House by the Tánaiste on behalf of the Government arising from the 88-page Supreme Court judgment in which it has just ruled that the nursing homes Bill is unconstitutional. This matter was first raised by Deputy Perry and it appears as if the information...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise three matters on the Order of Business. No. 50 deals with the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty Bill and Ireland's obligations thereunder. Further to the matter that Deputy O'Dowd raised, without being in any way hysterical, have the British Government and authorities been contacted about a report that 30 kg of plutonium has been deemed missing in the internal audit of the...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Second, regarding yesterday's Supreme Court judgment, perhaps I might ask the Tánaiste if she now accepts collective responsibility for the part of the judgment stating that, as was accepted by the Attorney General from the date on which that section came into effect on 1 July 2001, there was no possible room for doubt, as health boards were not entitled——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I know that, but was it discussed that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform was then the Attorney General who would have advised that Government? The former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, was deemed to have left a meeting when the matter was discussed.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: His two Ministers of State were present, and it seems that the former Minister for Health and Children was in full possession of that information——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: ——and sought not to act on it.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Third, arising from the moving of the writs and their acceptance regarding Meath and north Kildare, if we are to be faced with three and a half weeks of promises made by Ministers, we should inject an element of common sense into what is to happen. The Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, who is not here this morning, announced that he was closing in on a rail deal for Meath——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: ——when, as the former Minister, Deputy Brennan, will know, two years ago——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I will finish in ten seconds. Two years ago the Government produced a comprehensive rail package for the country, and County Meath was not mentioned.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: That proposal is being put forward by Meath County Council.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: If we are to have such announcements from Ministers, let them be based on fact rather than fantasy.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, is having some of the rub-off that his Minister for State, Deputy Callely, had the other day when he announced it.

Written Answers — Cultural Relations Commission: Cultural Relations Commission (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he received a report on setting up a new cultural relations commission in June 2004; if this proposal has been approved by the Cabinet; when the new commission will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5172/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he intends to make appointments to the Irish Film Board; the criteria for such appointments; the steps he will take to ensure that among the appointments there will be persons with suitable experience of Irish film production. [5171/05]

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Many thousands of elderly people and their families are anxiously waiting for the Government's response to last week's Supreme Court decision which rejected its attempt to retrospectively deny people their legal rights. The net effect of the judgment, as the Tánaiste will be aware, is that tens of thousands of people were illegally charged over a prolonged period. Yesterday, the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. Arising from it, is she confirming that the Statute of Limitations will not apply to persons of sound mind going back beyond six years or to cases where persons were of sound mind but are now deceased, that is, to the estates of those persons? Can the Tánaiste confirm when she expects to bring the new Bill before the House in respect of the element of the...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Hear, hear.