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Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have already responded on that in respect of the amount of time that was allocated for Report Stage from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. yesterday and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. The Minister and the Chief Whip made it perfectly clear that whatever time was required by Opposition Deputies to discuss all of these matters was made available on Committee Stage and was not taken up. The Minister is in...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I appreciate that from Deputy Martin on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party. It is an appalling situation which we see unfolding on television screens across the world. I understand this crisis has now peaked, with the United Nations declaring a famine in two regions of southern Somalia, Bakool and Lower Shabelle. I understand 3.7 million people are in crisis and 78,000 Somalis have fled the...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for that and will convey his comments, as well as those of Deputy Martin, on behalf of their parties to Deputy Breen for the benefit of his committee and the decisions at which it might arrive next week.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I cannot give the Deputy an exact date. As he is aware, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has published the Children First requirements. These are to be backed up by legislation currently being drafted by the Minister for Justice and Equality. This is a matter of obvious priority for the Government, which is the reason a Minister with specific responsibility for children was...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle has offered the Deputy an opportunity to raise this matter on the Adjournment. I am unsure of what legislation the Deputy was referring to in respect of cemeteries.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will revert to the Deputy in this regard.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Stanley's point is one of which the Minister for Justice and Equality is well aware. This matter is being followed through by the Minister. The Government is aware of the number of people who could be employed and who are not in employment at present because of delays in this regard. This is not to say anything other than the vetting office does a good job. The Deputy may take it...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is no need for legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, a massive piece of work must be conducted in this regard. I expect it probably will be in the middle of next year before the Government will be in a position to publish that Bill. It is extremely complex, extremely extensive and entails an enormous amount of work. That process has started.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: No, there is not. On the issue of water charges mentioned by the Deputy, I dealt with this matter during Leaders' Questions this morning. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will bring a memorandum before the Cabinet shortly and it will make a decision. The memorandum of understanding signed off on between the then Government and the troika and subsequently...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The referendum on judicial pay is being dealt with by the Minister for Justice and Equality. Work on the other two referendums the Government is committed to holding in October is being dealt with and processed by the Attorney General. The Government will sign off on these items shortly and there will be sufficient time for consultation with the Opposition leaders, as well as time for...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: On Thursday, 14 July 2011, a 47 year old woman received a sentence of 24 years for pleading guilty to the assault and ill-treatment of her eight children, two boys and six girls, over a seven-year period from 2002 to 2009. The final 16 years of the sentence were suspended. The Health Service Executive confirmed that it had knowledge of this from 2000 onwards. It became actively involved...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the freedom of information (amendment) Bill, this will not be published in the next few weeks. The work on the Bill is ongoing but it will not be published in a few weeks. On the question of the cost of the visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama, no more than any other sector, the Garda Síochána which does such an important job, is not immune from savings and...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Friday sittings will be the ideal opportunity to devote sufficient time to the discussion of reports such as this.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I remind the Deputy on this last Leaders' Questions before the summer recess that the interest rate involved here is the interest rate that his Government signed off on.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is the first point. His Government signed off on that interest rate. On 11 March, the Council of European leaders decided that there should be an interest rate reduction in principle applied to countries in a bailout. That was a responsibility delegated to the Ministers for finance because the stress tests were not completed on the Irish banks at that time. As I pointed out to the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is what his Government landed us in. Because the Government has made a series of decisions here, whether about banks, recapitalisation or the analysis currently being carried out by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in terms of the comprehensive spending review, we have brought about a situation where the European Parliament, the European Commission, the IMF, quite a number...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: From that perspective, I look forward to the meeting tomorrow. I hope that what comes out of tomorrow's meeting will be the start of a series of decisions taken by the eurozone leaders which will restore confidence and certainty, and deal with the issue of the legitimate anxiety and concern about contagion spreading from the Greek situation which simply must be dealt with. That is the focus...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will tell the Deputy. Ireland is seeking to clean up the mess his party created.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Time after time, Deputy Martin referred to the Gallic spat between President Sarkozy and me. He appears to assume that I should have gone to my first Council meeting, the day after the Government was appointed-----