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Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Questions relating to international agreements and pacts, including those with EU partners and institutions, generally fall for answer by the relevant Minister.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am also accountable to the Dáil in respect of a number of State offices, including the law offices of the State and the Central Statistics Office, although the Minister of State in my Department generally answers questions on statistics. The procedure for dealing with parliamentary questions goes to the Ceann Comhairle.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is not what the Deputy is saying then. I have made it clear the regulations governing this have not been changed by me and I have no intention of changing them. Questions may well be transferred to other Ministers where substantial responsibility rests with them.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin asks a question about issues regarding Europe and finds they are transferred to another Minister, but I do not see those questions - the ones that have actually come through - until they appear on the Order Paper. I have dealt with 260 of them. Deputy Martin has been asking me questions such as "How long did you meet such a person for?", "What time did the meeting take place...

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy wants to ask a direct question, please do so. If I were him, however, I would get used to Opposition and I would begin to instruct my officials and researchers to ask a range of questions because he will surely get a hit then.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is not a question of subverting democracy.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: While the answers I have given may not contain all the information the Deputy wants, they are a hell of a lot shorter than my predecessor's. As I said I have answered 260 parliamentary questions since the Government was formed.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has not been neglectful of his duties here. He has learned a great deal since he came here and he understands the mechanics of it. On tomorrow's Order of Business a whole raft of changes to the way we do business in the Dáil will be voted through and will become effective from the next session. I hope the Deputy will participate in those debates. If he has any further...

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has no question in here at all.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Which ones were transferred?

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy should talk to the Ceann Comhairle about that.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am happy to participate in Leaders' Questions here, morning after morning. I answer questions from Deputy Martin and Deputy Adams about European economic issues and other matters. I love the Deputy's phrase about "broad, strategic orientation". He is a great man for these kind of phrases, but they are meaningless.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the two questions he asked, the first was whether I met the IMF delegation. The Deputy will appreciate from his attendance here that responsibility for these matters was devolved to the Minister for Finance. Obviously, the latter and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform met the IMF-EU-ECB Troika.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That responsibility was devolved to the Ministers to hold that meeting.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: As regards the Deputy's second question concerning the Economic Management Council, this is a Cabinet sub-committee. The confidentiality clauses apply to those, as they always have done.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: As the Economic Management Council deals with issues that will come before Cabinet, the Deputy himself surely understands, with his broad strategic orientation, that one cannot discuss everything in public before it goes to Cabinet for decision. That is the way democratic governments do their business.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: One might have an idea that a matter will shortly go to Government, like the question of household charges or water metering, but I am not entitled to divulge that information to the House until the Cabinet decides upon it. Does that answer the Deputy's question?

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy can have all the questions about the broad, strategic orientation that he wants, and I will answer them for him.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I could draft a few for the Deputy, as well.

Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is absolute rubbish from the Deputy. He has been on about that for the past three weeks - the subversion of democracy and all the rest of it.