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- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: I charge the Tánaiste with abdication of responsibility and a clear reticence to have an ordinary day's business.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: A Cheann Comhairle, I would like to say the following. You adjourned the House for a ten minute period. I see no reason the Government should not have normal Dáil business next Wednesday and Thursday, and I have made that point vociferously. I find it regrettable that the Taoiseach walked out of the Chamber after the vote was taken. This is about his Government proposing that there be no...
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle has ruled Members out of order on a number of occasions this morning. As he has now moved on to the Order of Business proper, I contend that he is out of order. Will I explain the reason?
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business states that in the case of No. 10c, relating to the sittings and business of the Dáil, the matter shall be decided by one question which shall be put from the Chair. The Ceann Comhairle did not put the question to the House as to whether the arrangements and business for next week were agreed. In moving on to the Order of Business proper you, Sir, have exceeded your...
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: You are out of order, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: Does the Ceann Comhairle accept that he is out of order?
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: When do you intend, a Cheann Comhairle, to allow Leaders' Questions today?
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: According to Standing Orders, you, a Cheann Comhairle, are the person who has discretion in this matter, to allow Leaders' Questions or not. Standing Orders specifically state that, at the commencement of public business on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the Ceann Comhairle may permit, at his or her discretion, a brief question not exceeding two minutes from each leader in Opposition to the...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: Those children would not have been born had their parents followed the instructions given to them under the system of the Health Service Executive set up by the Minister for Health and Children. Can anybody understand the depth of feeling of mothers who have had miscarriages where misdiagnoses occurred? I want to ask the Taoiseach about that matter.
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: The entire country is talking about these issues,-----
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: -----yet this House, the forum of the people, is denied that right and responsibility. It is also a statement-----
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I will finish-----
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: I have no intention of engaging in any histrionics about this; it is a matter of the most serious import. The Tánaiste may smile about it if she wishes. The point is that, in the past few minutes, we have seen the publication of two banking reports. I have not had time to read them yet but if the significant statement issued by Mr. Casey, the former chief executive of Irish Life &...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: -----there are very serious matters that will have to be discussed. My point concerns the Ceann Comhairle's interpretation of Standing Order 27, the Standing Order that allows Leaders' Questions at his discretion. Surely the Ceann Comhairle must believe the issues I have raised are of such importance that Members of this House, who are elected by all the people, should be able to discuss...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: -----that we must talk about be debated in the House.
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: I will not argue with the Ceann Comhairle. I contest his interpretation of Standing Order 27. It is entirely within his discretion to allow brief questions from each leader of a party in opposition on matters of national importance. These are matters of national importance and the Ceann Comhairle, as Chairman of this Assembly, should see to it that he uses his discretion to allow us to ask...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: -----what was gone through by those two good mothers whose children would not be with them today, happy and healthy, but for their maternal instincts. This is not a matter for semantics or for quibbles about Standing Orders. The Ceann Comhairle has the authority under Standing Orders to allow Leaders' Questions, to change the Order of Business to allow for these matters to be discussed in...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: That is contrary to Standing Order 27, which states: "At the commencement of Public Business on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the Ceann Comhairle may permit, at his or her discretion, a brief question not exceeding two minutes from each Leader in Opposition to the Taoiseach about a matter of topical public importance". When the Taoiseach voted here last week to strangle today's business, he...
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: I speak in respect of Deputy Durkan, whom I refer to as a suspended Member of the House. You, Sir, actually used the words "He is a suspended Member".
- Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)
Enda Kenny: Yes, but the Ceann Comhairle did suspend him and stated that he did not.