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Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Not for years.

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Taoiseach will put our minds at ease by making available a copy of the report he or the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, received yesterday so that Deputy Rabbitte, Deputy Sargent, Deputy Morgan — who is filling in for Deputy Ó Caoláin — and I are aware of what we are up against.

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Minister never looked for it. That is why she is so out of touch.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: While the House was endeavouring to comment on a culture of corruption and the necessity to break it, the very same Tánaiste who said we do not want single party government in this country was outside the gates of this House undermining another tribunal. First of all, I believe we should have an opportunity to hear a full statement from the Government about its intentions with regard to...

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: On a point of order, while I have great respect for the Minister, this is a contemptuous snub to this House.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste is here.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I understand they are attending social partnership meetings but this is the primary legislative body in this country and we have no representation from either the Taoiseach or the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste is out doing the Taoiseach's dirty work in respect of the tribunal. We have good cop, bad cop, with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government saying the tribunals should be closed down while the Taoiseach says they should go ahead. This is contemptuous treatment of Dáil Éireann.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: Neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste is here to answer questions today.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: It is a snub to the primary legislative body.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I propose that we sit until 6.30 p.m. and that there be a full statement from the Government in respect of its intentions relating to the Mahon tribunal. We are in a situation where the Taoiseach says it should go ahead, the Tánaiste says it should close down and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government says we cannot go on like this. The tribunal was set up by the...

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I ask for clarification, Sir. I proposed an extension to the sitting on Tuesday, which was effectively for new business.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: It was new business because the Taoiseach refused to answer questions about the Moriarty tribunal, which was new business as far as I am concerned.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I proposed an extension of time for new business, namely answering questions about the Moriarty tribunal.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: It was a new element of that business.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: And to bring in an element of new business.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: The new business was to get the truth out of some people here.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: I will have to vote against the proposal.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: At the beginning of the Order of Business, I attempted to raise the fact that I regard the absence of the Taoiseach and Tánaiste as a contemptuous snub to this House, which is the primary legislative body in the country.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Enda Kenny: After a decade, we had a short series of statements on the Moriarty tribunal. The Progressive Democrats were not present in the House and there was no comment from the leader or the deputy leader of that party.