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Order of Business (30 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: He is on the streets.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances surrounding the death of a child (details supplied); if she or her representatives will meet with the family of the child; if counselling services will be made available to relatives affected by this death. [16813/08]

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (30 Apr 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timeframe for the delivery of a secondary school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the status of the application for this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16876/08]

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: What are the arrangements for Dáil sittings between now and the referendum on the Lisbon treaty on 12 June? The Government seems to be of the opinion that the Dáil should rise for two full weeks before the referendum. I read a report yesterday about a mother whose daughter was killed when the car in which she was travelling crashed. The mother called for approval for hospital medics to...

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I was going to ask if the Minister is looking forward to a change of Department next week, but I do not suppose that is in order.

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: On my way to Arbour Hill this morning, I received a telephone call from a man called Mr. Gormley. My heart gave a jump because I thought it might be the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, to say he was interested in not supporting the Taoiseach elect, Deputy Cowen. When the traffic lights at Christchurch turned green four times in a row and the...

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: He should ensure Members get answers to questions.

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Taoiseach elect's immediate predecessor as Tánaiste will provide a better quality of answers to written questions than Deputies on all sides of the House have done in recent years. I know the Taoiseach elect has an interest in reforming this Chamber and the way this House goes about its business, and I would like to see evidence of that. I congratulate Deputy Cowen on his...

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is not agreed. There are some changes but there is no real change about this. We have already lost 15 minutes from the appointed time at which this House was to reconvene and debate the members to be appointed to Government. Since the foundation of the State there have been eight occasions when the debate on the formation of a Government was of one, two or three days' duration. In some...

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I advise the Ceann Comhairle that 15 minutes of Dáil time were lost before the Government came into the Chamber.

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is a fact and we should continue until 8.30 p.m. in any event, because that time was not lost due to the action of the House.

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: In that context, some 15 minutes were lost because the Government was late coming in, whether because of traffic or whatever. The debate should then continue until 8.30 p.m. The 15 minutes were lost, not because of the House's actions, but owing to the Government's failure to come in on time. Is that 15 minutes being allowed now?

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Yes, it is.

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is the first consensus from the new Taoiseach.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: To serve in Government is a great and unique honour and privilege that carries a great responsibility. I congratulate all of the new Cabinet appointees, in particular Deputies Brendan Smith and Batt O'Keeffe. I also congratulate Deputies Barry Andrews and Pat Carey on their appointments as Ministers of State. Deputy Carey stopped me on many occasions in the corridor and asked whether I...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: She will probably have to deal with policy issues anyway. As Leader of the Opposition, it is a privilege to congratulate all of the new appointees and wish them the best of luck. However, it is also my duty to point to the fact that the appointees come into this House with new seals of office from the President at a time when the Fianna Fáil slogan "a lot done, a lot more to do" has...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is time to update Deputy Brian Cowen's famous one-liner. When in doubt, pay it out — as long as the money makes it look like the Government is actually doing something. Never mind the reality. Enjoy the ad. campaign for €35 million. Deputy Brian Cowen knows well 4,000 children in the Dublin area are waiting on speech and language therapy. The State has gone through the process of...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: No one would believe that a Minister for Education and Science would drive loving parents to despair, that she would fund the lawyers to pummel good people to the verge of bankruptcy — and beyond in some cases- to prove a point.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: No one would believe an entire Cabinet could become so disconnected from the people it is supposed to serve. Up to 200,000 people may have died in a cyclone in Burma this week. Its ferocity may be as a result of global warming. Global warming or climate change, however, is not new. We have known about it since Fianna Fáil came back into power in 1997. The Government eventually took...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Deputy Frank Fahey, announced recently on radio that it takes 50 minutes to travel by bus from Mountjoy Square to St. Stephen's Green. He now intends to close down the whole of Dublin city centre to traffic without discussing it at the relevant committee. The Taoiseach is a clever man. I assume he and the incoming Minister for Finance,...