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- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins has not lost any of the wit or barbs.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: That is a valid point. I will have the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine respond to the Deputy Harrington immediately.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a29, statements on the establishment of a statutory commission of investigation into a foster home in the south-east. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. a29 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7.30 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the speech of the...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: On the Deputy's first point on the self-employed, obviously, the Government is well aware of the anomaly that has existed here for some time, with hundreds of thousands of self-employed people without any safety net. I understand completely the difficulties being experienced by self-employed people if something like this happens. That is why the Government started to address this in the...
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes but I think he is being perfectly realistic here rather than having to say we can deliver all these things-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I understand but-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I think we are better actually saying it as it is and getting to the next stage to have-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----free GP care for all those under six and over 70 and all children up to the age of 18.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin intends to go around the country in the coming weeks-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----promising, like the Deputy over there, that everything is free and nothing has to be paid for-----
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes but realism is a fact of life also.
- Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: If he looks at the number of doctors being trained and the numbers involved here, we have delivered it for those over 70 and under six. The next stage is to deliver it for everybody under 18 years of age. I think that is an issue the Minister has addressed realistically.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 8 together. Like public representatives generally, I often meet religious and non-religious leaders informally in the course of attending official and public events. In addition, I meet representatives of religious and other philosophical bodies through a formal structured dialogue process which provides a channel for consultation and communication...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Tá a fhios ag an Teachta go bhfuil níos mó ná 3,000 scoil ar fud na tíre agus gur leo an Eaglais Chaitliceach an chuid is mó dóibh siúd. Is é an tArdeaspag Ó Máirtín féin a dúirt liom go raibh an iomarca scoileanna ag an Eaglais agus gur mhiste leis go mbeadh cuid acu siúd curtha amach i dtreo is go mbeadh daoine in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins has delivered a history lecture. Obviously, the process of colonisation over many hundreds of years has led to bloody warfare and inter-country and inter-tribal wars on so many occasions. History speaks for itself. The Deputy will recall the discussions that took place in 1938 about the protection of the Jewish people and that all the countries in Europe represented at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy. I made the point before and I know we argue about this structure for questions. I have said on many occasions that I would take a priority question every week-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: I said on many occasions that the leaders may have a priority question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: They could choose whatever topic they wanted. When we come back-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: If we come back, I will extend the same facility to the Deputies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Enda Kenny: One must have confidence but I take the Deputy's point. It is the will of the people. I fully agree with the Deputy's point that there should be no equivocation with this kind of activity by these terrorist groups, which is utterly appalling. The Deputy made the point about the West being denigrated and run down and I share his view. When things get out of hand, people look to the West...