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Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——so we can hear the Government's proposals to deal with staying within the borrowing limit of 3% set by Europe in the Growth and Stability Pact, how it proposes to deal with public pay——

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——and how it can ensure that it will not cut back on its capital programme, as outlined by the previous Minister for Finance and Taoiseach. I note that the Minister for Finance said yesterday that he has been left to clean up the mess that was covered up for the last number of years by his immediate predecessor. Ten years ago there was a referendum on the issue of bail in the criminal...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is up from 15,500 in 2004 to 24,200 in 2007. When is it proposed to do something about this in the 49 Bills on the list? When will the new Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform inform the House that he will take action to deal with the serious offences being committed by persons out on bail?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: What about No. 49?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: What about No. 49?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is nonsense.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste was not asked about that, she was asked——

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——if we could have a pre-budget outlook discussion in the House.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: There is no point in doing that in October. The Tánaiste is in charge and under the remit of her Department 65,000 construction workers have gone out of business.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: We need to discuss the matter in the House before October.

Written Answers — Battle of the Boyne Site: Battle of the Boyne Site (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's involvement in the purchase by the State of the Battle of the Boyne site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21734/08]

Written Answers — Battle of the Boyne Site: Battle of the Boyne Site (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance the costs that accrued to his Department in respect of the purchase by the State of the Battle of the Boyne site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21735/08]

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Having agreed the proposal for No. 22, I wish to raise a matter brought to my attention by Deputy Flanagan in respect of this committee for scrutiny of the European Union. I commended the Taoiseach's predecessor for upgrading the committee to what is currently a full-scale, all-party committee. We must understand there is a river of initiatives and proposals coming down at this committee....

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: It will be considered.

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: This session goes on until 24 September.

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if all costs associated with the MacEntee commission have been discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17138/08]

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach agree that the outcome for the victims and their families has been very unsatisfactory in that closure has not been brought? Does he agree also that at the very least the families expected that those responsible would be identified, and does he expect that to happen? In view of the collusion that was identified in respect of security forces and the perpetrators of those...

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: There was also one from mine. Members of Justice for the Forgotten were forced to go to court recently in order to get access to documents that had been made available to the MacEntee inquiry. This is being contested by the Government. Why does the Government want to contest this access? Is there some information the Government does not want to provide? The relatives of the 11 people...

Official Engagements. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the foreign trips he will undertake during the remainder of 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17131/08]

Official Engagements. (4 Jun 2008)

Enda Kenny: When the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister, Mr. Brown, met on their own, did they discuss tactics or did the Prime Minister advise the Taoiseach to be careful about certain things because they could go south very quickly?