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Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It might be fine for the Ministers.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It might be fine for them to smirk away over there but when the people of this country were in the middle of a winter freeze, the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, was in Malta and said he would stay there.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will tell you where I was.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I was with my people-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----in Castlebar, County Mayo.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: If this Government thinks it can come here with this level of arrogance and contempt for the people, the Parliament and the Dáil and the issues we have to discuss, it has another thing coming. As Chairman of this assembly, the Ceann Comhairle must understand that if the Order of Business as proposed for next week is not changed, there will be very little business conducted in this House. We...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: The VHI is up for sale-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----without European authorisation. There is a series of issues, not to mention the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill of the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, and the would be Minister, Deputy Mattie McGrath. Other issues are to be put to the House, including the children's referendum-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and all of the other issues that need to be discussed.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: If the Fianna Fáil Party believes it can continue to act in this way,-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----it has reached a breathtaking level of arrogance in the way it treats this Parliament.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It reverts to what the previous Taoiseach stated.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: He stated that Fianna Fáil's ethics were to get into and stay in government.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Government does not want to answer questions.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It does not want to deal with issues of accountability. It wants to walk away-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and give two fingers to the people, the Parliament and the questions that need to be answered. The Government would lose nothing by having a normal day's business next week with Leaders' Questions, Questions to the Taoiseach, Adjournment debates, Private Members' motions and being able to vote on issues. I ask the Government not to treat next Wednesday and Thursday as some kind of...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is a serious time for the more than 400,000 people on the live register. It is a serious time for those in negative equity. It is a serious time for a generation of young people staring emigration in the face. The Government refuses to have anything to do with serious politics in terms of answering questions and being accountable. We agree on the importance of the Ryan commission, but...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I do not know what the Government has to hide or of what it is afraid. When I get the nation through the door-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I see the appeal from the party that says-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----it is always eager to add to the party's archives realising that what it does now will matter for generations to come. Well, it does matter and it matters now.