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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 12, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on Construction 2020, housing, planning and mortgage arrears which was established in 2014 has met eight times to date, of which five meetings took place in 2015. The committee last met on 8 October. The next meeting of the committee has not yet been scheduled. For reasons of Cabinet confidentiality,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The working group, which I commended very strongly, recommended that if the report was to be implemented, it should be done after the next general election. Former Senators Manning and O'Toole, and the former Minister, Mary O'Rourke, made very cogent arguments as to why this should be but also as to what it would mean for the electorate and the way it might do its business. Deputy Gerry...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Micheál Martin was speaking about himself and had said that he was invited by a television station to debate certain issues with me and that he accepted that. He was talking about himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Fair enough, but he said-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy actually said he was not speaking about himself-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I look forward to the opportunity to have debates with you all - everybody.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy the Leader of the Opposition or is it Deputy Gerry Adams?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Micheál Martin the Leader of the Opposition or is it Deputy Gerry Adams?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: RTE is entitled to its own opinion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned, I debate political issues every day of the week-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: ----- and, in some cases, far more robustly than what the Deputy does in here. Be that as it may, the Deputy has a particular slant he wants to follow at all times. I suppose he is entitled to that. We have a series of really important pieces of legislation to put through between now and the end of this session. I hope co-operation will be forthcoming from the Opposition parties on these...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I hope we do not have to guillotine-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have the bankruptcy, the climate change and the legal services legislation to finish. These are important Bills and I hope that the Opposition parties, in the interests of having the legislation put through, will be able to make their valid points and where amendments are made and accepted, fair enough.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure that rambling contribution deserves any kind of response. Are we to have a sudden revelation here in the Oireachtas that the greatest debater of all time has arrived?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy refused to accept any responsibility for the ministries he held. Now suddenly everybody should be cowering away under the benches because they are going to be devoured by this wonderful new political scientist who knows all the answers to all the questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy may continue with his arrogance if he wishes. I saw his picture in the local papers in Castlebar in the Sacred Heart home, the new expansion of which his representatives there say will never go ahead. The Deputy was standing there with his people. He is welcome any time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will be welcome when the facility is opened.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I want to talk about the questions in respect of the Seanad. Deputy Micheál Martin might send me the list of Bills he believes are going to be guillotined. The Chief Whip has set out a very long list of legislation that we need to get through before the end of this session.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Enda Kenny: I hope that far from obstructing Bills like the bankruptcy Bill the Deputy will co-operate and see they are put through in the interests of everybody. I had a view about the Seanad that I would have liked to have seen it abolished. The people gave me their answer and I accepted it. Following that, I was very grateful to former Senators Manning and O'Toole, Mr. Tom Arnold, Dr. Elaine...