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Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and give two fingers to the people, the Parliament and the questions that need to be answered. The Government would lose nothing by having a normal day's business next week with Leaders' Questions, Questions to the Taoiseach, Adjournment debates, Private Members' motions and being able to vote on issues. I ask the Government not to treat next Wednesday and Thursday as some kind of...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is a serious time for the more than 400,000 people on the live register. It is a serious time for those in negative equity. It is a serious time for a generation of young people staring emigration in the face. The Government refuses to have anything to do with serious politics in terms of answering questions and being accountable. We agree on the importance of the Ryan commission, but...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I do not know what the Government has to hide or of what it is afraid. When I get the nation through the door-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I see the appeal from the party that says-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----it is always eager to add to the party's archives realising that what it does now will matter for generations to come. Well, it does matter and it matters now.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I charge the Tánaiste with abdication of responsibility and a clear reticence to have an ordinary day's business.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: A Cheann Comhairle, I would like to say the following. You adjourned the House for a ten minute period. I see no reason the Government should not have normal Dáil business next Wednesday and Thursday, and I have made that point vociferously. I find it regrettable that the Taoiseach walked out of the Chamber after the vote was taken. This is about his Government proposing that there be no...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I join with the Ceann Comhairle in welcoming Dr. Paisley and his good wife to the Distinguished Visitors Gallery of the Dáil. Over the years we have heard the voice of Dr. Paisley on many issues, usually much louder than mine. I might have disagreed with him on many issues but on one I would always agree, and that is the question of the accountability of parliament. I disagree with these...

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----about its gross abuse and wastage of public money and the fact that it has transferred the debts raised in Anglo Irish Bank onto the backs of the Irish taxpayer.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I understand the Minister for Health and Children has written to the chief executive of the Health Service Executive

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am not accepting the Order of Business because the Government expects-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle might as well adjourn the House because we are not going to get anywhere with this Order of Business.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: This Order of Business is not acceptable.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: The fact of the matter is that we are being bulldozed into agreeing this Order of Business by the Government which wants to take next week in this House statements on the Ryan commission-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: ------which is important. However, there must accountability and parliamentary scrutiny when this House meets. God knows what will happen when the Rachel Corrie reaches or is intercepted by the Israeli navy on its way to Gaza through international waters. We have sought assurances-----

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: ------and we need to be vigilant here. As I stand in this Chamber, there are children in this country in positions of great vulnerability.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: We know that the HSE has sent children to foster parents who have not been vetted.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: We know there are children sent into care where no social workers visit them.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: We know there are children who are missing, having been sent into care by the HSE.

Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)

Enda Kenny: We have a situation where the Government continues to pump taxpayers' money into Anglo Irish Bank which will sink the next generation with debts.