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Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: There is another kind of disease around.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I have no wish to be disruptive but I want to ask the Tánaiste about that in respect of the Order of Business.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Can I have the Order of Business amended if I agree to that proposal?

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I am talking about a different kind of disease.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I will make the same point again tomorrow in respect of time for a debate on Northern Ireland to receive clarification on this issue. In respect of the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Amendment Bill, I note in newspaper reports that it is intended to wind up the Dunne inquiry into post-mortem policy. This has cost €20 million, has been running for four years and yet no interim report has...

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: This involves €20 million and the Tánaiste proposes to wind it up.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste would like to respond.

Written Answers — Cultural Relations Commission: Cultural Relations Commission (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he received a report on setting up a new cultural relations commission in June 2004; if this proposal has been approved by the Cabinet; when the new commission will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5172/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he intends to make appointments to the Irish Film Board; the criteria for such appointments; the steps he will take to ensure that among the appointments there will be persons with suitable experience of Irish film production. [5171/05]

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise three matters on the Order of Business. No. 50 deals with the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty Bill and Ireland's obligations thereunder. Further to the matter that Deputy O'Dowd raised, without being in any way hysterical, have the British Government and authorities been contacted about a report that 30 kg of plutonium has been deemed missing in the internal audit of the...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Second, regarding yesterday's Supreme Court judgment, perhaps I might ask the Tánaiste if she now accepts collective responsibility for the part of the judgment stating that, as was accepted by the Attorney General from the date on which that section came into effect on 1 July 2001, there was no possible room for doubt, as health boards were not entitled——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I know that, but was it discussed that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform was then the Attorney General who would have advised that Government? The former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, was deemed to have left a meeting when the matter was discussed.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: His two Ministers of State were present, and it seems that the former Minister for Health and Children was in full possession of that information——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: ——and sought not to act on it.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Third, arising from the moving of the writs and their acceptance regarding Meath and north Kildare, if we are to be faced with three and a half weeks of promises made by Ministers, we should inject an element of common sense into what is to happen. The Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, who is not here this morning, announced that he was closing in on a rail deal for Meath——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: ——when, as the former Minister, Deputy Brennan, will know, two years ago——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: I will finish in ten seconds. Two years ago the Government produced a comprehensive rail package for the country, and County Meath was not mentioned.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: That proposal is being put forward by Meath County Council.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: If we are to have such announcements from Ministers, let them be based on fact rather than fantasy.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, is having some of the rub-off that his Minister for State, Deputy Callely, had the other day when he announced it.