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Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday, the Fine Gael spokesperson on finance and his colleagues were briefed by the Department of Finance on the true figures regarding the economy. To say that the figures that were produced were outrageous is an understatement. They were appalling and they show that, from the beginning of the banking crisis, the Taoiseach has known the situation was far worse than anything the people...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: If my party and I are to produce a report, it has to be on the basis of figures that can be stood over. Independent, competent people must be brought in who can validate and verify the figures given to us by the Department of Finance yesterday and this should be done only for that purpose.

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: This is unprecedented and the discussions in which we are expected to participate have to be conducted in public in this Chamber because the people must be consulted and they must know what is happening. If this happened in any other western democracy, the government would have resigned long ago in disgrace.

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: Will the Taoiseach put in place an independent verification process for these figures in order that we will know what the true starting point is and can stand over it? Is he prepared to conduct the discussions that must now take place, to deal with a national crisis that he and his Government have led this country into, in this Chamber in public in order that at long last the people will...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: I assure the Taoiseach that for many years the Fine Gael Party has put forward the proposition that the entire strategy for budgetary presentation and for economic planning should be changed. Fianna Fáil in particular has never wanted to be in this House to the extent that it should be nor to answer the charges and the questions in the way it should.

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach can take it from me now that the Fine Gael Party will continue to play its part in any necessary consensus. We will support what we believe in and we will oppose what we do not believe in. From the point of honesty and truth and having everything above board, if we are to start serious planning to deal with the catastrophe wreaked on the Irish people by the Taoiseach's...

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise two matters on the Order of Business if I may, a Cheann Comhairle. Deputy Charles Flanagan has raised the question of the children's referendum on a number of occasions. People working in the child care area in general are absolutely confused about the Government's intentions on the proposal to hold a referendum on children's rights. I respectfully suggest that a debate in...

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am coming to a question on legislation. That chairman identified what he considered to be serious issues that needed to be addressed. Instead of their being addressed by the Minister, when they were brought to her attention, she asked for his resignation. One of those issues is that it will be necessary to remove 8,000 lorry loads of material to make way for a car park at a cost of...

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: Will the Minister for Health and Children come into the House for statements about this matter when every charity in the country is strapped for cash and the Government now expects philanthropy to produce €200 million?

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is necessary to introduce legislation to deal with issues arising from Crumlin Hospital and Tallaght Hospital to give effect to the implementation of a national children's hospital. If we are to have statements from the Minister for Health and Children, when will the Government introduce the legislation required?

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: The health system is a failure. When the HSE was set up, the people of the country were promised a world-class health system. These were the very words spoken by the Minister for Health and Children. We have world-class doctors and nurses but we do not have a world-class system to support them. We are now told by the Minister for Health and Children that the cut expected in the budget...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is of little consolation to the people of the country. I asked that the Taoiseach, irrespective of the cuts made in the health budget, can give a guarantee front line services will not be cut. The reason I ask is that front line services save lives. Two weeks ago, Fine Gael tabled a motion in the name of Deputy James Reilly. We listed many actions that could be taken by the...

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the appointments made by him since May 2008 to the State Boards or other agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30235/10]

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: This question relates to appointments made by the Taoiseach to State boards or other agencies. The Green Party, however, has taken this practice to a new level with the appointment of persons associated with them, party members or those who have lost their seats, to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, the Disability Authority, An Foras Orgánach, the Film Classification Office and the...

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: I knew the Ceann Comhairle would say that and I addressed it in the first part of my supplementary.

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is a valid question about service to the State.

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: It might not be the Taiseach's impression but there is now a situation where a person of considerable status accepted a difficult position and while doing the job to the best of his ability, he brought issues of concern to the notice of his Minister and was subsequently asked to resign.

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: What message does that send out to other people of status, integrity and ability who might want to assist the State by giving of their experience to a State board? If they bring issues of concern to the Minister involved, they may be asked to resign. That is not the message we want to send out. I do not want to go through the list of our absent friends from the House, but it is incredible...

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: He was asked to resign.

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: There is €600 million involved.