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Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: Additional vehicles will be purchased for the Garda Síochána in 2013. The operation that targeted burglars has resulted in over 2,500 arrests and 1,400 charges. This is significant in the context of the gardaí finding out who the people are and bringing 1,400 charges against them. The important point is that the Garda Síochána has changed the way it does business...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: Even in Tipperary, the communication systems work so much better than previously. That is important for people who want to know what the Garda confidential line is-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----so they can make contact with their gardaí when they need them. If Deputy Mattie McGrath thinks that sitting in an ivy-covered building, which needs €100,000 to do it up, for two hours on Wednesday is the way to do justice in this country, he is out of touch.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I, the Minister and the Commissioner want to see the Garda Síochána active in communities, interacting with people and being available to people and being seen by them. This engenders confidence and information, which is very important. Things have changed and the capacity of the Garda Síochána to reach into communities, town and country, is changing with it. We need to...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I read about that too.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 19, inclusive, together. I have initiated a series of meetings with families of victims on all sides of the community in Northern Ireland as a sign of the priority my Government attaches to helping to find a lasting resolution to the hurts of the past. On 13 September, I met with the sole survivor and with family members of the ten Protestant workmen...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Martin's last question, I do not. The occasion of my meeting was the first time for some of the relatives of those involved in the Kingsmill massacre to come to Dublin or to have an engagement with members of the Government. The description given by the sole survivor of the massacre was both poignant and riveting. These were ordinary people coming back from work when...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: No one would disagree with the comment this is about the opportunity for united communities and that can never happen while that seam of pain and emotion is in there. Personally, the reaction and the reception of the people of Enniskillen and those who attended the British Legion centre, both from the local area and from Cavan and other places, was very powerful. Lord Eames, the bishops,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy covered a range of issues. When I said there was no hierarchy of victims, this is an issue that was raised by the groups I met because of our persistence on calling on the British Government for a public inquiry into the death of Mr. Pat Finucane. As I outlined to the House previously on many occasions, we requested that because Mr. Justice Cory made that recommendation arising...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is not a problem. I am saying the Deputy is fully entitled to be elected by the people here. The problem is that he speaks of truth and reconciliation when all of this started throughout the entire spectrum in the late 1960s. He is right that it is not the first time we have had difficulties in this country. When people look at the political impact of the Sinn Féin Party in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I had a row with the Deputy First Minister a number of years ago in Belfast, in Stormont, about whether he was a member of the IRA, and he told me that he was and he has said that publicly. My question to him was about the army council of the IRA and if it was it in existence or stood down. We had a long argument about that and he said it is no longer in existence. I am not asking Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I read Voices from the Grave and I do not know whether that was real or not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I understand, but maybe the Deputy might want to comment on it at some stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: It would probably be helpful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: Was the Deputy, then?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy said that he would never disassociate himself from the people who he grew up with and why would he.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: The question is, if we are talking about people who put detonators together, who put bombs together-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I will. I will come to it but I am talking about what happened behind the wall in Enniskillen, that persons probably now alive - some of them may be alive I do not know - put this together, inserted those detonators and put the timing mechanism in place when they knew they were going to cause mayhem. Would it not be in the interests of healing if some people would say: "We admit that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is an issue and it will not go away. On the issue of grouping the questions, I would say to Deputy Adams and to Deputy Martin that I do not mind if we separate them and take all the questions relevant to the British Prime Minister and the issues about the North-South Ministerial Council separately. It does not matter because they cover generally the same thing and overlap on one point...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Enda Kenny: I said that arising from the revelation of people who have never been to Dublin or had any engagement with Government representatives, and who clearly have very graphic and emotional stories to tell, there is an opportunity here to follow through and I am sure the same applies on both sides of the community. I am not sure what the eventual outcome should be but I am certainly willing to...