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Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: I want to be helpful to the Tánaiste.

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Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste is incorrect with her facts. Other countries have special days, such as Bastille Day or the Fourth of July.

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Enda Kenny: I want to be helpful.

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Enda Kenny: I am trying to be helpful.

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Enda Kenny: Deputy Roche is wearing his ministerial tie today.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste referred to making judgments when the facts are known and spoke about emerging issues. One fact is that the Minister for Health and Children will be in New Zealand for a fortnight.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The second issue I would like the Tánaiste to address, because I am sure the Government is anxious to ascertain the truth, concerns the reports that by last summer there were up to 30,000 unopened letters in Tallaght. The figure may have since decreased but given this is an emerging issue, what are the facts of the matter? Is it a fact-----

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Enda Kenny: -----that there are thousands of unopened letters?

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Enda Kenny: I am sorry, this is too serious.

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Enda Kenny: I will sit down in a minute.

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Enda Kenny: I proposed that the Dáil should sit later this evening. In the interests of the thousands of people concerned, I would like the Government to tell us whether it is a fact that thousands of referral letters to Tallaght hospital lie unopened? Is that a fact, "Yes" or "No"? Can we take it as the truth?

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Enda Kenny: When is the meeting being held?

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Enda Kenny: Are there thousands of unopened letters at the hospital?

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Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has said the facts-----

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Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has said, and I thank her for it, that probably at this moment-----

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Enda Kenny: -----these facts are being ascertained.

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Enda Kenny: I want to know-----

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Enda Kenny: -----why the House cannot sit later this evening to respond to the meeting currently taking place.

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Enda Kenny: Ceann Comhairle, I am being helpful.

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Enda Kenny: These questions are being investigated to determine the facts. I want to know whether the House can sit for a further hour this evening for statements and a report on the meeting that is taking place at present so we can establish the truth.