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Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: No. The programme for Government contains a clear commitment to have family law courts and a court of civil appeal. The Government authorised the Minister for Justice and Equality to begin the process of discussions with the Attorney General that will lead to its becoming a reality. Clearly, when the constitutional convention starts its work in September it will be quite entitled to...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The constitutional convention has a specific remit to give its views on a number of defined issues, but it is not confined to that area of work alone. It can consider these or other areas on which it wishes to make its observations or views known. It can do so in the normal way. What it considers will be part of its function.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: What the Government authorised the Minister to do yesterday was to start the process of discussions with the Attorney General to give effect to a strategy that would lead to the commitments in the programme for Government in regard to new courts being implemented. A long series of discussions will have to take place about their nature, scope and responsibility and what will happen in the...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not want to speak for-----

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: It has been a difficult process and a disaster for people who worked hard, got their mortgages, bought their houses and found there was a problem. The Government has commissioned the report and focused on what happened, the scale of the problem and what needs to be done. The report clearly points to the setting up of a resolution board where all of those involved - quarries, contractors,...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I answered this question yesterday. The expert committee tasked with the particular responsibility asked for an extension of time which has been granted by the Minister for Health. It will report to him in due course.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I expect the health and social care professionals (amendment) Bill to be brought before the Cabinet next Tuesday. I hope that will be the case. I am advised that the Bill is practically concluded.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday the Minister announced the reorganisation of the Defence Forces. It was agreed between the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Department of Defence that the strength of the Defence Forces would be retained at 9,500.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: That will follow, but the reorganisation was agreed to and announced yesterday.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Green Paper will be about what will happen in the future.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, the Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, are dealing with aspects of the alcohol issue. As the previous sub-committee meeting on social policy there was a detailed discussion on the serious issues involved. The sub-committee mandated the Minister of State to bring her recommendations to the...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will have received a letter from the Minister for Social Protection on 11 July from which he is quoting. I am sorry if I was incorrect in the information I gave him about the legislation. I note in the Minister's letter to the Deputy that she says the changes will be provided for in secondary legislation and that the drafting of the regulations is well advanced. I offer my...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Bill itself is not due until next year. Obviously, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, is reflecting on the offer made in respect of Aer Lingus by Ryanair and has stated he will consider it and report to the Government. I also note the comments of the board of Aer Lingus. The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, also is due to meet representatives of a number of the...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The national vetting bureau Bill was cleared at Cabinet yesterday and will be for publication now. I will have the Chief Whip revert to the Deputy in respect of the publication by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs of the fifth annual report. I cannot answer the Deputy as to what hour of today, tomorrow or Friday-----

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Whip will let the Deputy know later on in the course of the morning.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is an important issue with which the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Kelly, is dealing. The heads of that Bill have been cleared and work is proceeding on it. It probably will be some time in the autumn session.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: No, but it obviously is a matter about which the Minister for Justice and Equality is concerned in his discussions with the Commissioner. As the Deputy is aware, licence conditions are attached to such events and they obviously are being reviewed in the light of what happened, namely, the appalling carry-on in the Phoenix Park.

Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Táim buíoch as ucht an cuireadh a thabhairt dom an tseachtain seo. I am actually pleased to come to the Seanad today to reflect a little on recent developments at European level and to consider what lies ahead, including during Ireland's Presidency of the European Council, which, as Senators know, will be from 1 January to the end of June next year. I am also here to listen. The...

Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Significant progress was made on both fronts. The European Council agreed a compact for growth and jobs and the summit agreed a number of important steps aimed at addressing the immediate crisis in the euro area, including the imperative need to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns. As I said at the time, if these decisions are to have an impact in the markets, we must now...

Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thank Members of the Seanad for their contributions. Let me start by saying that I feel I am in a chamber of the condemned here. The position about the future of the Seanad is very clear; its fate lies in the hands of the people. The Government, comprising two parties, was elected with a specific mandate. Part of that mandate was to put a referendum to the people on the abolition of the...