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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: Friction-free, frictionless border.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: What I pointed out to Deputy Burton in response to her question is that if the legislation has gone through by 7 or 9 March, before the meeting in Malta, the Prime Minister will then at some stage move to trigger Article 50 by letter to the Commission. That letter is important because therein lies the key to what it is we are talking about. In her speech at Lancaster the Prime Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: That question must be addressed by the British Government. I discussed it with the Prime Minister last night and it is not for me to pre-empt what it is the British Government will decide in that regard, but that is the area where the negotiation will be critical when the talks start. If we want a seamless, friction-free, trouble-free Border that is the crucial area to be negotiated. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 and 9 together. The only Bill in preparation in my Department is the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, Bill. The Bill will dissolve the National Economic and Social Development Office, NESDO, and place the NESC on a statutory footing. It is a short answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's question is in respect of the Bills in preparation in the Department. I have answered that for the Deputy. The only Bill is the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, Bill. Deputy Martin is now asking me a different question about the management of the legislative process that is being followed. Deputy O'Callaghan never sent his Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: He booked Report Stage before the Bill was even on Committee Stage. The Ceann Comhairle is well aware of the number of Bills that have been allowed to pass without being blocked and the challenge now is for the parties to say which ones we want to pursue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: We will never be able to get through the 30 or 40 Bills that are lined up now in addition to the list published by the Government. I suggest that the Fianna Fáil Party would decide on the three or five Bills it regards as a priority. Deputy O'Callaghan's Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is now going through in conjunction with the Government Bill.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: There is a way of doing this that should not cause controversy between us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: Two can play at that game. Deputy O'Callaghan did not have pre-legislative scrutiny carried out on his Bill.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: As I understand it, he did not bring it for pre-legislative scrutiny and he booked Report Stage before it reached Committee Stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: In any event, I take the Deputy's point. I have not signed any money messages against any of the Bills that have come through the House. I have allowed them to go through.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: The new politics is to have backbenchers bring forward non-governmental Bills and to have them processed and now there is a big backlog of those. The parties sponsoring the Bills need to identify what are their priorities and we will try to facilitate them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: Tá sé sin ceart.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: The function of the National Economic and Social Council is to analyse and report to the Taoiseach on strategic issues relating to the proper development of the economy, the achievement of social justice and the development of a strategic framework for the conduct of relations and arrangements between the Government and the social partners. That function was set out in the 2006 NESDO Act and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I discussed this with the Prime Minister last night. I understand that the legislation is starting today in the House of Commons. It should be finished there by around 7 February. She might be in a position on 9 March to have that matter completed and to move Article 50 before the end of March. I asked that perhaps we might have a clearer view as to when Article 50 would actually be moved...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I had contact with Mr. Mark Durkan, MP, the other day in respect of Committee Stage of the Bill in the House of Commons. He made the point that we needed to look at the implementation bodies that were set up under the Good Friday Agreement because they were predicated on the dispensing and disbursal of European funding under various headings - INTERREG, PEACE funds and so on. There is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I discussed the fact of the vote of the people of Northern Ireland with the British Prime Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I also noted the fact that she was in Cardiff yesterday meeting with the devolved assemblies. I noted in particular that she received a plan for the future from the First Minister of Scotland and from the First Minister of Wales, Ms Nicola Sturgeon and Mr. Carwyn Jones. Unfortunately, because the Executive was deliberately collapsed by Sinn Féin, there is now no leadership to present a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: We did have generally the same direction and objectives with the former First Minister, Ms Foster, and former deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, which was to be welcomed, at the North-South Ministerial Council. It is important to say that I discussed with the Prime Minister the particular and special and unique circumstances that apply in Northern Ireland that do not apply...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: I have made the point very strongly that we will not have a return to a hard Border or, as they say, the borders of the past.