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Official Engagements. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: It could be against Wicklow.

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with a Sinn Féin delegation in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11408/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17130/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister in Belfast on 8 May 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18730/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Northern Ireland investment conference on 8 May 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18731/08]

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I was interested to note that the newly appointed Government Chief Whip, Deputy Pat Carey, sent out a missile to his own Members, and rightly so.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: This missile or epistle——

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have in my hand a document which sets out the public engagements of Ministers and Ministers of State. The point I am making is that the Government Chief Whip sent out an edict telling Members to be here on Thursdays and that there will be no pairs or arrangements. Yet for next Thursday, there are nine engagements by Ministers and Ministers of State at various locations around the country...

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is opening the Mitchelstown Business Park.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is attending the Bord Bia Bloom event; the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is attending a national conference on the Green Paper; and the Minister for Defence is laying a wreath. If we are to follow the edict of the Government Chief Whip, arrangements should be made that no Ministers attend functions that are not entirely in the...

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: No Minister or Minister of State should be arranging for road or school openings or the attending of conferences. As the Ceann Comhairle knows, the Deputies in those constituencies will also want to be in attendance and will be breaching the edict sent out by the Government Chief Whip. I am only trying to help him by offering him some assistance as one who did some of that business myself.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: If I raised this issue the other day, it would have been related to the fact that the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Devins, attended the awards for science excellence in Dublin Zoo. These are matters that could be arranged at a time when the Dáil is not sitting, where they would not interfere with Deputies of the Government parties being present in the...

Written Answers — Recidivism Rate: Recidivism Rate (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he proposes to take to address the high levels of recidivism here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21135/08]

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views in respect of the proposed prison at Thornton Hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21134/08]

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise the serious issue of rising prices. Consumers, businesses, farmers and fishermen have experienced and are experiencing a massive increase in the price of diesel, petrol and home heating oil. I was disappointed to hear the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, say recently that people who complained about these price increases were whingeing. It is easy to dismiss such...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is more expensive at some pumps than at others. I am referring to the average price. As the Taoiseach is well aware, the major factor in the increase of fuel prices is the price of crude oil on the international market. In this State, however, there is another factor. This is the combination of taxation through VAT and excise duty which is levied on volume. More than 50% of the price...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have to assume that the Minister for Finance is speaking for the Government when he says people are whingeing when they are concerned about rising prices. The Taoiseach is well aware there is no VAT on food. The average person's weekly income is now squeezed to the limit with increases in food and fuel prices and mortgage costs. The amount of disposable income available to people has...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: The consumer is paying for it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: They have got them for nothing, as the Taoiseach knows.

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if all costs associated with the MacEntee commission have been discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17138/08]