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Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister in Belfast on 8 May 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18730/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Northern Ireland investment conference on 8 May 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18731/08]

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I was interested to note that the newly appointed Government Chief Whip, Deputy Pat Carey, sent out a missile to his own Members, and rightly so.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: This missile or epistle——

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: I have in my hand a document which sets out the public engagements of Ministers and Ministers of State. The point I am making is that the Government Chief Whip sent out an edict telling Members to be here on Thursdays and that there will be no pairs or arrangements. Yet for next Thursday, there are nine engagements by Ministers and Ministers of State at various locations around the country...

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is opening the Mitchelstown Business Park.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is attending the Bord Bia Bloom event; the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is attending a national conference on the Green Paper; and the Minister for Defence is laying a wreath. If we are to follow the edict of the Government Chief Whip, arrangements should be made that no Ministers attend functions that are not entirely in the...

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: No Minister or Minister of State should be arranging for road or school openings or the attending of conferences. As the Ceann Comhairle knows, the Deputies in those constituencies will also want to be in attendance and will be breaching the edict sent out by the Government Chief Whip. I am only trying to help him by offering him some assistance as one who did some of that business myself.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: If I raised this issue the other day, it would have been related to the fact that the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Devins, attended the awards for science excellence in Dublin Zoo. These are matters that could be arranged at a time when the Dáil is not sitting, where they would not interfere with Deputies of the Government parties being present in the...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Bhí mé ag éisteacht le Clare FM agus chuala mé gur inniu lá breithe an Cheann Comhairle. Ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil leat, a Cheann Comhairle, os rud é go bhfuil tú sa Chathaoir mhór chumhachtach chompordach sin. I wish to ask the Taoiseach a question about an issue I consider is really important in the context of our future. In interviews the Taoiseach has given in...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: This is the first admission from the Taoiseach that the national development plan is not secure and that the commitments entered into in it will no longer stand up. Last week, the Fine Gael spokesman on education, Deputy Brian Hayes, asked the newly appointed Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, if this money would be spent over the period of the plan. He said this was...

Official Engagements. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10742/08]

Official Engagements. (28 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the US President, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10743/08]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases in each of the past ten years where social workers were required to investigate allegations of children being at risk and where such investigations subsequently proved groundless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20707/08]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the regulations and criteria set down that require a social worker to investigate allegations of children being at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20708/08]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all allegations of children being at possible risk are investigated by social workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20709/08]

Freedom of Information. (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: Does the Taoiseach agree that the changes introduced by the Government to the Freedom of Information Act have seriously curtailed the right of the citizen to find out what is going on in certain areas, agencies and organisations? The Taoiseach is always interested in outcomes and delivery. Is he happy that many of the Departments in the public service fail consistently to provide on time...

Freedom of Information. (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach was there himself.

Freedom of Information. (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: One of the Taoiseach's responsibility is contact with Northern Ireland. Under the Freedom of Information Act in Northern Ireland, there is widespread availability of information for citizens on the PSNI. This is denied only in specific and exceptional circumstances. Now that the Garda Síochána is being reformed, does the Taoiseach have a view on whether the FOI Act should be extended to...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2008)

Enda Kenny: The single biggest decision made by the Irish people will be made on 12 June in respect of the Lisbon treaty. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Lisbon treaty has the full support of the Fine Gael Party since it was first agreed and even before it was signed in December.