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Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Surely, the Government is aware, following instructions from the Taoiseach, of what date in January the Dáil will come back. We have firm indications of the Taoiseach's intention to call an election and to hold it in the month of February. The Green Party wants it at the end of January. I would prefer if it were now. However, the Government should be aware by now what date the Dáil is...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: No Members from the junior Government party are present today. I was intrigued to hear the recent contribution of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he described this place as an asylum and said one gets chewed up inside by the scale of the decisions to be made and has sleepless nights, whether one is in negative equity or not. I was equally astounded to...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle is at it again. I am nearly finished.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: My point is that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, gave a very clear impression that this matter was discussed in some detail on the Sunday before the Monday meeting at which the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance made their decision. An incorporeal meeting was held and when the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, was contacted, he was about to drift...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Either the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has been misinterpreted here or he is not being upfront with all the facts, to put it that way. The Honohan report did not report on the facts of the Cabinet meeting in the way that the Taoiseach is now speaking. The Honohan report said that 75% of this situation was due to our own fault, the Taoiseach's fault. The Minister, Deputy Gormley, said: The...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance when he was speaking on 20 January 2009, said, "It was a carefully considered decision arrived at by the Government after consideration of all the factors at a full meeting of the Cabinet". The full meeting of the Cabinet took place on the Sunday and an incorporeal meeting of whatever Ministers were available by telephone was held on the Monday night. We need to get...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The other fundamental matter is this. On the debate in the House on the bank guarantee, Deputy Noonan asked the Minister for Finance whether this was a matter of liquidity or solvency and he was told it was a matter of liquidity. The Government did not tell the truth to the people. Was the Minister, Deputy Gormley, suffering from lack of sleep when he gave his recollection of what...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: With regard to the business to be transacted tomorrow, I have no difficulty with No. 36 in respect of the financial motions. However, as the Taoiseach will be aware, we have been consistent in objecting to Bills being guillotined. I understand it is proposed to guillotine the Social Welfare Bill. This Bill concerns great numbers of people around the country, be they pensioners, people on...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is only appropriate that we should ask a number of questions on the Order of Business, as is traditional and is right and proper.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Do you want to put them?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Are these motions you have there?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: May I ask a couple of questions after that on the Order of Business?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Can I do that?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Do you want to put the motions now?

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I understand there is a special finance Bill to be brought in on Friday. What are the issues that are to be presented in that special finance Bill and is it proposed to dispose of that Bill on Friday? Second, when is it proposed to publish the report on gaming and lottery. I thought I heard the jingle of-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----casinos in the distance and I understand that central to that aspiration is that the gaming and lottery report would be published. When is that expected?

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Taoiseach's last comment, when does the Government expect to consider that report and sign off on it? Are we likely to see that report published before the end of the year or will it be sometime in the new year? On Thursday last, I asked the Tánaiste a number of questions here but she was unable to give a complete answer, maybe because the Government has not decided. I...

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for this clarification. I welcome the fact that the Dáil will return at an earlier date than originally envisaged. I was looking at the Gormley missile which was circulated in his constituency-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: It states to his constituents that there were three issues he wished to have dealt with. The first was a credible four year plan, the second was the budget for 2011 and the third was securing funding support from the IMF, the ECB and the EU.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has almost succeeded in his three ambitions, but they were all predicated on his announcement to his constituents that we have reached a point where the people need political certainty to take them beyond the coming two months.