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Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Can I ask another question, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I will be very brief. I would like to ask about the proposed referendum on child protection. As the leader of his party and the deputy leader of the Government, does the Tánaiste share the view on the referendum that has been expressed by various parties? There are no political difficulties or divisions in respect of the issues of absolute defence and soft information, which have been...

Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Why not have two questions?

Light Rail Project. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Transport when work on the Rathfarnham Luas line will commence and be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6606/07]

Suspension of Member (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I would like to make a point on that issue.

Suspension of Member (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I am going to say it anyway. This is a daft regulation. Deputy Cowley sits in your Chair, Sir, and he should know well that he should not interfere in Leaders' Questions and so on. This is a Deputy who proclaimed that there should be boycotts of business people in my county, who occupied public offices illegally——

Suspension of Member (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I will not vote for his expulsion, but he should understand the rules when he sits in the Chair. That kind of carry-on yesterday——

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Staunton is my party's spokesperson on this area. He has made the point that this is an extensive Bill and that members of the Opposition only had one day to consider the implications of the range of proposals made in the Bill. I do not know whether the Minister, Deputy Brennan, would agree. It is a very short time within which to consider such a range of proposals. I do not intend...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Does the Ceann Comhairle think I might go on for a long time?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: That was not my fault. I wish to ask two questions. I refer to a report made available to the Department of Education and Science about the alleged serious drop in standards of young teachers and the difficulties this causes for the maintenance of teaching standards which is so important to the country. Will the Government make time available for a debate on this matter or does the Minister...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I am not opposed to that.

Ministerial Advisers. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the duties and responsibilities of the special political advisers as appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43882/06]

Ministerial Advisers. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: What is the difference between a special political adviser and a programme manager in the Taoiseach's Department? What has been the cost of the five special political advisers engaged by the Taoiseach over the past couple of years? How frequently do the special political advisers sit down with the Taoiseach and report progress or otherwise on the implementation of the programme for...

Ministerial Advisers. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism is good at figures, he would be quick at it.

Ministerial Advisers. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I asked how frequently they brief the Taoiseach and give advice, which he probably has much of anyway.

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships will next meet; the number of meetings of the team planned for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43884/06]

Interdepartmental Committees. (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for outlining the Departments represented. The Departments of Health and Children and Education and Science deal with hospital and school buildings. By anyone's standards, these categories are among the most critical, but they must go through a prolonged planning process. Has the cross-departmental team suggested these buildings should form part of the critical...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday evening I invited the Taoiseach to visit Beaumont Hospital, which is in a state of crisis. The Taoiseach declined to take up that offer but I went out myself. In the accident and emergency unit last night, it was perfectly obvious that porters, nurses, doctors and consultants are doing everything they can to make life somewhat comfortable for patients. There were approximately 50...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: One 78 year old woman had been sitting on a hard chair for 24 hours. She was assessed as being too sick to go home, but there was no place available in the hospital. It is the responsibility of the Taoiseach's Government to provide those units and beds. I see hotels being built on 24-hour shifts around the country, but regarding the most important buildings of all, hospitals, where people...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's last reply smacks of the Tánaiste's observation that the crisis in St. James's Hospital was manufactured by people in white coats looking concerned. The point is I know there is a problem because I was at Beaumont Hospital last night. The Taoiseach was not and is removing himself from the problem but it will not go away. Doctors in the accident and emergency unit told me...