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Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats and Sinn Féin.

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: Hear, hear. Senator Brian Hayes is after you.

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this joint motion and I thank Deputy Rabbitte for sharing time. The Taoiseach is not present, though he will speak later. His comment yesterday that the Opposition would suffer a heart attack if he called a general election indicated he is confused, and confusion is one of the symptoms of heart failure. I looked up a number of medical journals earlier and...

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: That is dangerous because while the Government implodes and is at war with and between itself, in the real world serious problems have now become intractable, such as those in health. Nothing defines this Government like the health crisis. The Tánaiste asked that she and the Government would be judged on this——

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: ——and they will be. Health should be the number one issue for any Government because health is the number one issue in almost everyone's life. We know now that the crises in health and elsewhere come behind ambition, appeasement and survival. Away from the talking heads, the revolting backbenchers and the egotistical battles of the wannabe leaders, accident and emergency departments have...

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: ——a deficit in child care, crime on our streets, growing incivility in our society, a neglect of our elderly, a denigration of values, a deep void that affluence has failed to fill and an epidemic of suicide where loneliness kills and cries of anguish are not answered, principally because the Government reduced the budget from 11% to 6%. The Government will not solve these problems,...

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: A situation where seeing is believing. In the second richest country in Europe, we have people with end-stage cancer spending their most precious moments, because they are their final moments, vying for space on chairs and trolleys. Crime and criminality has become rampant. We see a society where civility and respect has diminished, aided and abetted by the Taoiseach's Government. For that...

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: ——arranging for the four day meetings over the month of July, to put forward their fabulous views on policies to support this motion.

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: I know they will not but if they had any courage, guts or gumption they would do that. Let us have an early election and let the people make their decision.

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: Nineteen murders this year.

Government Record: Motion. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: There is truth in that statement. Responsibility is also needed.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: This is not agreed. We have pointed out on a number of occasions in the past that ample opportunity was available to have more discussion on this critical legislation and we have made the point about bundling Stages of Bills together. From that perspective, I object to No. 19 being taken as proposed.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: It is not agreed. Deputy Timmins has spoken on this matter. While we support the principle of the Bill, I do not agree that it should be rushed through all Stages as proposed. The Taoiseach is aware of our views on the matter. The Bill should be discussed properly and thoroughly, and I will vote against the proposal on that basis.

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Rabbitte has indicated, the Dalton report has been published. The Committee of Public Accounts will meet this week and the former chairman of Bord na gCon will appear before the committee. How will this be dealt with, given that the report has been published but the order of Dáil business is such that there is no opportunity to discuss the report in the House? The instrument that...

Order of Business. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: One of these appointments should be representative of the students. It would be in their interests. I know that the Taoiseach will take that on board. Will the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill to give effect to the Law Reform Commission report on the modernisation of land law and conveyancing law be published in 2006?

Office of the Attorney General. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: It is enough to give one a heart attack.

Office of the Attorney General. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach gets palpitations about it.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: I have been presented, as other Members have, with the second report of the Commission on Electronic Voting on the secrecy, accuracy and testing of the chosen electronic voting system. This is another nail in the coffin of the Government's claim to competence, good judgment and ministerial capability. Just over two years ago, the Government tried to foist a dud electronic voting system on the...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Johnny Brady is warming up. He is a modest man with modest ideas, but he should keep them to himself. On the basis of today's report, arising from a €60 million expenditure, I would not be inclined to trust the words of a large number of Ministers. The software system that the Government wants to use to count votes is a dud. This report clarifies that beyond "yea" or "nay". It...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Jul 2006)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach should check the record or ask his people in the communications area to check it. I did not say the software cost €60 million. I said the software was dud software and that it was the cause of the problem. I agree the hardware is recommended as being of sound structure but it is like building a house of blocks and putting in an inferior heating system or having a shell of a...