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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Oireachtas committee's conclusions. It will consider the citizens' assembly recommendations or proposals and it will bring them back into this forum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Correct. The point is that one engages with ordinary people around the country about an issue that is quite profound and it is in this assembly that Members will have to make their decision. The Members will have, as Deputy Martin states, the freedom of choice to vote in whatever way they wish, depending on the question that is to be put.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is much more profound than that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and has the interest of the vast majority of people in the country. Unfortunately, when the very traumatic cases of fatal foetal abnormalities or other cases are brought to public attention, they are very traumatic, very sensitive and very heartfelt. The Constitution, however, is the people's Constitution and cannot be changed without the people's consent. That is why the people in the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I did not hear Deputy Martin shouting about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: It was completely invisible.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party was silent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party was afraid.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party was afraid.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party was afraid.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Big deal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: What about former Senator Power?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's party disappeared.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. In the programme for a partnership Government, the Government has committed to establishing a citizens' assembly within six months and without participation by politicians, with a mandate to look at a limited number of key issues over an extended period. These issues will not be limited to those directly pertaining to the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I do not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Coppinger is incorrect when she states we do not like to see this matter raised. It has been raised on many occasions. We have set out a clear process in the programme for Government committing that a citizens' assembly should examine the question of the eighth amendment and other issues. Following the citizens' convention, which brought forward the proposition that there should be...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Let me reflect again for the Deputy. We already had the capacity to reopen the Garda College in Templemore to train new gardaí and dispense them around the country. The Government has decided to increase the Garda force to 15,000, but we cannot do this without a strong economy or providing proper training for young gardaí. As the Deputy will have known within the past few days,...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Public representatives of all parties and none will have a voice. If it is to be a whole-of-government response, it should be so. It is not only this party or the Government that wants to deal with this. It is about the people. Those in the north inner city are good people and should have the same opportunities as anyone else to live their lives in the way they want.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I accept that, of course I do. I understand, from Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's experience as a public representative and citizen, that she knows more than most and knows many of the people involved in the north inner city directly. I respect this. The agenda she has set out is part and parcel of what we have to do. It is, of course, the duty of the State to ensure citizens are protected....
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for her contribution. I like to think the north inner city task force that will be put together will be different in the sense that I would like to see it modelled on what the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, brought forward formerly in the creation of jobs, where there was a timeline, it was action-proofed and responsible. In so far as my Department is concerned, we will...