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Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I want to ensure that children and adults with special needs are treated and given facilities in accordance with their requirements. That is why the Minister for Health and Children is carrying out that analysis on the scale on which he is carrying it out, in accordance with the decision of Government, to have a comprehensive spending review.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I assume that when that analysis is completed the Deputy will continue to play his part in making his views known, as he will have the opportunity to do, so that everybody can be treated fairly and be seen to be treated fairly.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked about low incomes, special needs and senior citizens.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McGrath has raised several issues similar to these in the past and I know he has a deep and personal interest in this area. The children did not cause this problem, nor did their parents. The Government will focus on this area as a priority and when the analysis of the comprehensive spending review is completed, we will know the truth of the scale of the priority that can be accorded...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will refer the Deputy's last point to the Minister. I assume the school to which he refers is an official school in respect of ABA. I am well aware from meeting parents of children in schools that have been set up around the country because parents believe in ABA that such schools are entirely voluntarily funded, and the pressure on those people to continuously raise funds for teachers in...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Nobody over here has any difficulty about appearing on programmes. The Minister will do a programme on this issue very shortly. I would like to think that some of the issues dealt with in the programme last night should have been dealt with long before now. For example, why does somebody have to wait for four years to make his or her home wheelchair accessible? Why is somebody suffering...

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 9, Criminal Justice Bill 2011- Second Stage (resumed). It is also proposed to take Private Members' business, which shall be No. 25 – Motion re Government and Oireachtas reform.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is not even a brass neck. That is a neck of toughened platinum from which the memory chip has been removed.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Bill proposed by the Government will seriously reduce corporate donations. Banning corporate donations outright would invite a serious constitutional challenge. That is the legal advice that I have received. The last Government got the same advice, and whether it was dig outs or tents or whatever, it carried on regardless and now Deputy Martin is in here calling for such donations to...

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Chuir an Teachta isteach go mór orm agus é ag caint. B'fhéidir go raibh deacrachtaí canúinte i gceist. Nuair a labhair sé faoin Aire, an Teachta Varadkar, ní raibh a fhios agam céard go díreach a bhí sé ag caint faoi.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Baineann na deacrachtaí canúinte le míniú an fhocail. Tá cead ag an Teachta é seo a árdú tríd an Phríomh-Aoire ag cruinniú na n-Aoirí. Beidh cead aige labhairt amach faoi seo ó thaobh an Bille Airgeadais atá ag dul tríd na Dála faoi láthair.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The order will continue.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is an independent statutory body, as the Deputy is aware, and the Director of Public Prosecutions is entitled to make his point of view known.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government has set out its priorities on this. That is why the Minister for Justice and Equality introduced the Bill dealing with white-collar crime-----

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----which has been hanging around for a long time and is now going through the House. I do not have any control - nor does anybody else - over comments made by the Director of Public Prosecutions, as he is entitled to comment.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: As far as we are concerned, we want to see the law of the land apply effectively and swiftly to those to whom it should apply. In that context, the Minister for Justice and Equality has introduced the white collar crime Bill.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is no legislation promised here, a Cheann Comhairle. The Central Bank will publish those results this afternoon and the Minister for Finance and the Government will study them, as is appropriate.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We will see what is in it.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The fiscal responsibility Bill is No. 12 on the list of legislation which was to be published this session. To be truthful, however, it is being shoved back a bit because of the time-limited requirements of the IMF-EU deal with regard to a number of other Bills across a range of sectors. I have referred to these before. To be straight about it, while it is listed at No. 12, it will...

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is currently being drafted. I cannot give an accurate date for its introduction, but I assure the Deputy it is being worked on.