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Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Ó Caoláin is normally up to speed on matters related to health. I answered the question yesterday, maybe in his absence. The HSE service plan will be debated in the Dáil next week. The Bill is due this session. I cannot give the exact date. As it says in the Bible, "you do not know the day nor the hour". It is due this session.

Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is due this session. There is an evaluation of all the community employment schemes. Deputy O'Mahony might submit his query to the Ceann Comhairle for the Topical Issue debate.

Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for Deputy Neville, but it is due this session. I will try to get a more accurate fix on what stage of preparation it is at by tomorrow.

Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have seen some publication from the party opposite. The Bill is not on the A list, as far as I know. I am aware of work being done by the Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, on the alcohol issue. Deputy Conway's point is valid. The Chief Whip will give her an indication of what is happening from this end.

Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I share Deputy Durkan's thoughts about the right of elected representatives to be able to communicate with their constituents. The Bill he mentioned is listed for later this year. In view of his comments, I will inquire as to whether it might be expedited.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is using peculiar phraseology today. I assume that by saying "consult with the people" he is talking about holding a referendum, but he did not say that. Deputy Martin's view yesterday and that of his party, which was espoused by Deputy Michael McGrath in a very constructive fashion, was that if a referendum was required in the context of changing the Constitution, it should...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The issues will begin to be discussed tomorrow in the House here, following the normal report that I will give to the House following yesterday's meeting. I expect that Deputy Hannigan, the Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs, will see that plenty of opportunity is given to Deputies from all sides of the House to have their say on the text as it is agreed in...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----did not get their passports or visas to get in here at all. I want Deputy Martin to understand that as far as I am concerned, we will be very straight with process here.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: This morning, I asked that the Cabinet refer this final text to the Attorney General for her formal, legal advice. The Government will follow through on that advice.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy may take it that the work of Government and the fiscal responsibility Bill, which the Minister for Finance is preparing, look at the impact of what is involved here, as will every Minister, not just for this year, but for the time ahead. It is a science on which we cannot give a definitive answer. We cannot say what the economic situation will be in five or ten years time.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is a great deal of work going on. However, most of it is reports about the consequence of the programme for Government and where we are headed in the future, how to restructure our public finances so that we can have an economy that can grow and how we can close the deficit of €16 billion.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: For Deputy Adams to get up here above everybody else and talk about meeting people, when he himself was buddy to some very shadowy creatures over the last 30 years------

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: At least the French President is elected democratically by his people. Everybody who attends that meeting is entitled to give good wishes to everyone they meet, because we have to work together in the interests of Europe. The French President yesterday was central to an issue that was causing concern at the meeting and which was resolved with a satisfactory compromise. The Deputy comes in...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: When I am asked in Armagh to apologise on behalf of this State for people who were murdered in Northern Ireland by people who crossed the Border and were deemed to be in safe houses, I have to say that the organisation involved was the enemy of this State because they murdered gardaí, Army personnel and innocent civilians.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the "buddy buddies" of that group who Deputy Adams knows and with whom he associated, the truth will come out some time.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am glad that the Deputy's party has moved a long distance from those dark days, but when he comes in here to this House of Parliament and makes a big issue of the French President passing by and saying "hello" in his own way, I would like to remind him of his own "buddy buddies".

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams will have his opportunity to comment on the treaty tomorrow and on many other occasions. The amendment which was agreed to article 4 last night states that "The existence of an excessive deficit due to the breach of the debt criterion will be decided according to the procedure set forth in Article 126 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union". This agreement is...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is a process to our democracy and part of it is to adhere to something that has been well tried and tested. If we are to attempt to change our Constitution and if it is deemed necessary then the advice of the Attorney General is the process by which all Governments have followed over the years. The referendum on the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 also involved a constitutional...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the cost, this intergovernmental agreement is not the answer to all of Europe's problems but it allows 25 of the 27 EU countries to sign up to a political process where fiscal discipline and proper governance of the economic affairs of each nation will be put into place. This means that the funding for this country, which is in a programme for the next two years, as authorised...