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Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 to 18, inclusive, together. I met the newly elected leader of the SDLP, Dr. Alasdair McDonnell, on Wednesday, 9 November, during the course of his visit to Dublin. I congratulated him on winning the party leadership and assured him of my support and co-operation in the period ahead. We also agreed to strengthen co-operation at political and official level...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I had a very good meeting with Ms Finucane and members of her family and their lawyer prior to the function of the Aisling Awards, at which Ms Finucane received the Person of the Year Award. I undertook at that meeting that I would raise this matter with our United States colleagues because of their considerable interest in this over a long period, and I intend to follow through on that. I...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and citizens of this State were murdered, shot and blown up, including members of the Defence Forces, the Garda and the Army. As they were enemies of the State, I deplore absolutely every single death and have sympathy for the families of every victim, but I do not want anybody to run away with an assumption that this State was in formal collusion with the IRA, or killers associated...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Citizens of this State were blown up, murdered, maimed, shot and killed by persons within the IRA and associated with that kind of activity. I have no wish other than to say everybody who lost a family member is a victim, and I have sympathy and sorrow for all of those families, irrespective of how that happened.

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for those comments. Let us be very clear on this. The Government and the Minister for Justice and Equality had and have absolutely no intention whatsoever of interfering in any way with the independence of the Smithwick tribunal. I understand that, when these things are mentioned, it can oftentimes give the perception that one wants to in some way interfere with a...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins is correct that Northern Ireland has a high proportion of workers in the public sector. On the evening I was there to meet the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, MLA, and the Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, MLA, in Stormont Castle the Northern Ireland Assembly had approved its fiscal programme for the next period and had published it that day. That is its...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin raised a question which I did not answer earlier. The only facility to arrange this is not for the House but is between the governments, and that obviously means at the level of Taoiseach and British Prime Minister. When the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, called me about his decision to appoint Desmond de Silva QC to review the papers in regard to the Finucane case, which run to...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Clearly it is a matter of choice. A previous Government stated it would put up €400 million for this development which was to be a dual carriageway to Derry. Everybody supports good transport and the lines of trade that follow from that but in consideration of the capital programme we published here of almost €17 billion over the period of the programme, we had to make choices to defer...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have given them clarity on €50 million - €25 million in 2015 and €25 million in 2016 - and the officials were to work out the detail of how that is to apply.

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for his expression of condolence. I appreciate it. We too have often questioned the work of consultants over the years. I assume that if this was to be designed to motorway status in the first instance, then consultants would have been employed. I do not have a figure for what was allocated to consultants who worked on the road design, whether any of them was...

Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I hear the Deputy's proposal. The Cabinet made a clear decision, given the economic circumstances that prevail, that €25 million would be made available in 2015 and in 2016. I conveyed this very clearly to the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister. The officials on both sides were tasked with a readjustment of the fiscal programme to cater for that. We discussed that directly...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re membership of committee; No. 10, motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimates [Votes 25, 34 and 37]; No.11, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimates [Votes 25, 34 and 37] to select sub-committee; No.11a, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011 – Financial Resolution, on the supplementary Order Paper; No....

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: We can do that on Monday when the Dáil sits to deal with the Estimates. The Deputy will have an opportunity to tease out that issue at that stage.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: It will be in committee on 7 December.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to financial emergency measures but this is to do with the question of judicial pay. Some 80% of the people-----

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: This refers specifically to the issue of the referendum on judges' pay.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is an issue on which almost 80% of the people gave their approval in a referendum and the legislation refers to this issue. Given the current list of speakers, this will finish by 9.25 p.m. The House will have time to deal with some of the amendments tabled. The financial emergency measures legislation is dealing with the question of judges' pay.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Local Government (Household Charges) Bill was to have been published. The Attorney General is having another look at one or two questions related to it and certainly it is not on the agenda for this week.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The question Deputy Higgins asked related to the reasons behind this. The reason is that the Attorney General must examine one or two aspects of it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not at liberty to inform the Deputy about what exactly the Attorney General is being asked to focus on but Deputy Higgins can take it and he may put his mind at ease that it will not be on the agenda this week.