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Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of 436,000 people on the live register, what is the Government's intention in terms of providing a stimulus to create jobs and give some confidence to people all over this island who are in absolute despair at what the Government is mumbling and talking about for the past 18 months? The Government's record of an increase in unemployment from 202,000 in May 2008 to 436,000 now...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is the reality.

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent developments in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48375/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48376/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the British Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48377/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the British Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48378/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48384/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to visit the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48385/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will convene a meeting of the Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board during his next visit to the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48386/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements in place for maintaining contact with the Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48387/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next visit Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48417/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister in London on 14 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3230/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in London with the British Prime Minister on 25 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5112/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 20: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the political parties in Northern Ireland on 26 and 27 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5113/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: The grouping of these questions is not good, a Cheann Comhairle. There are many questions about Northern Ireland, some about Ireland-US relations and one about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. These could have been grouped better. It is not satisfactory for Members. Everybody here supports the Government's efforts to assist in bringing the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement to a...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach share my view that the triggering of an Assembly election in the short term could be divisive and could produce an unworkable result? Does the proposal put forward by the two Governments differ in many respects from the points of discussion between the DUP and Sinn Féin? Are there significant differences between the proposals that were to be published by the Governments...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: We have offered support already to the Government for what it is doing. The economy in Northern Ireland must be a matter of concern to the Taoiseach. The Government is concerned about our own economy but the situation in the Northern Ireland economy is also serious. The outstanding achievement of putting the Good Friday Agreement in place was the involvement of so many Governments and...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach share the view of the ESRI in its judgment that there is no underlying rationale for the policy of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on waste? A spokesman for the Minister was derogatory of the findings of the State body, the ESRI, and made the comment that it erred in fact. This is an important matter and the Taoiseach should make his views...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am raising this in the context of NAMA legislation. Public interest watchdogs have been appointed to the boards of banks. I raise this matter as a point of concern. The Taoiseach's people can examine this. I heard the taxi drivers in Dublin complaining about the new 30 km/h speed limit in Dublin city. Are State cars subject to the speed limit?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle is getting agitated.