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Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It may be necessary to do so. All the agencies are interlinked, they are in constant contact and they are being vigilant about this. There is no complacency in so far as Government is concerned.

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy empathises, as I do, in respect of the difficulties, the emotional trauma and the personal difficulties of many of the people involved in the Magdalene laundries and what they went through. The Deputy is also aware that this goes back to before the turn of the last century. The United Nations Committee Against Torture, UNCAT, issued its concluding observations...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not speak for UNCAT and I did not determine 6 June as the date on which it would publish its report. From the import of the Deputy's question she wanted the Minister for Justice and Equality to respond with a Government decision between yesterday and this morning. The Minister, on behalf of the Government and the House, is entitled to consider the detail of the UNCAT report and to...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice and Equality intends to bring the memorandum to the Government as soon as possible. By that I mean inside a very short time.

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is the same old story from Joe. The record is playing relentlessly. Arrogance is not a characteristic that is either genetically endowed or politically acquired by the members of this Government in the past 100 days. In respect of school buildings, the Minister, Deputy Quinn, lives in the land of reality and has been one of the few Ministers for Education to state the facts of life in...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has very selective hearing if I may say so. He must have been either driving or running when listening to the "This Week" radio programme on Sunday because that is not what the Minister, Deputy Bruton, stated. He stated that in accordance with the programme for Government, it is necessary to consider the question of reform of the JLCs and the Minister is involved in discussions...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: As for the Deputy's comments about the Minister, Deputy Quinn, he is dealing with the reality that for quite a number of years, huge sprawling developments took place in respect of residential houses, accommodation units, apartments and so on nationwide. In many cases, this was done with no conception that children eventually would inhabit many such houses-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----with a consequential requirement for school buildings and sites. In common with other Members of the Government parties, I have spent endless hours dealing with community councils, boards of management and people who are distraught because in the so-called Celtic tiger years, small patches of ground rose to exorbitant and excessive amounts or were being deemed fit for school sites and...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 3, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 7 shall be decided without debate and Private Members' business shall be No. 25, Spent Convictions Bill 2011 - Second Stage, and the proceedings...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: This matter has been raised before in the House. I expect the Minister will publish his Bill inside a matter of weeks and that it will be processed through both Houses. It is a complex Bill, as the Deputy is aware. It has been brought forward expeditiously. I cannot give the Deputy an exact date but the pressure is on the Minister to produce the Bill as soon as possible and it will be...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: What is in order is while the minimum wage deals with finances it is an industrial relations matter. The effective date for implementation is 1 July 2011 and it is being dealt with by the Minister for Social Protection.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not think legislation is promised.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Whips had discussions about this Bill already. There will be an order for winding up of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill tomorrow and this is necessary in order to progress the Bill. It deals with the reversal of the cut in the minimum wage and I am quite sure Deputy Higgins does not wish to see people who have seen a reduction in their minimum wage rate be left with this situation...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: No, I am not promising that. It will be guillotined as we have to move it on.

Departmental Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will recall that at the first Question Time in this Dáil I suggested that we might do away with one of the ordinary questions to the Taoiseach because such questions come up very often on a rota basis, as the Deputy is well aware. I was asking the same questions repeatedly for nine years when I was in opposition. Following this restructuring, the Department of the Taoiseach will...

Departmental Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The programme for Government is an agreement between Fine Gael and the Labour Party to bring about a situation whereby we rectify our public finances, sort out our banks and provide opportunities for people for the future in a country of which we can all be proud. It is a document, as Deputy McDonald is aware, of both parties and not one which belongs to a single party, something to which...

Departmental Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I cannot comment on what commentators may say or whatever interpretation they put on words. We are not mixed up between personalities and shoes here, like the Deputy was in a recent comment she made in the House.

Departmental Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: In any event, as far as I am concerned the essential job of the Taoiseach in this context is to see that the programme for Government is implemented as rationally, logically and smoothly as possible. Some Departments are very big and have enormous responsibilities. Ministers are finding evidence on a daily basis of decisions which were announced with nothing to back them up, which sometimes...

Northern Ireland Issues (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 14, inclusive, together. The Dáil debate on 17 May on a motion on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, which was agreed by all parties in the House, requests this Government to continue in its endeavour to seek a resolution to this issue. The Government is committed to doing so. As the House will be aware, I raised this matter during my broad discussion with...

Northern Ireland Issues (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is saying that what cost the taxpayer €6.1 million between the Barron inquiry and the MacEntee commission of investigation is a cover-up. There was a very significant, lengthy and detailed examination of these issues by Mr. Justice Hamilton and Mr. Justice Barron, a full and thorough inquiry by an Oireachtas committee and a full commission of investigation was conducted by...