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Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is awaiting Second Stage in the House and it will probably be in the next couple of weeks. We hope to provide 43,000 additional postprimary school paces by 2022 under the capital plan. When the details are provided by the Minister over the next few weeks, that will being relief and clarity for people about where their children will be able to go to school.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The planning and development Bill does not need a clause that requires common sense. I do not know the details of the senior citizen in question but I have heard the headlines on the radio. Clearly, anybody dealing with an issue like that should be able to apply a measure of common sense and not have this end up in court. Universal health insurance will not be introduced in 2016. I...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: That has happened. I am talking about what has happened with the issues he has raised. I confirm to him that universal health insurance will not be introduced by 2016 and the Minister has made that clear already. As a result of the fact that we now have a fiscal space, we are able to put together a programme out as far as the budget of October 2020, which will be just over €3...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will see that it does not contain bland generalities.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Believe me, the eye is very much on the ball. On the Stormont House Agreement, negotiations are very much advanced in respect of concluding an international agreement that will set up a commission of information retrieval, which is a new body to be established in both jurisdictions. I cannot give a date for publication except to say that those negotiations have gone very well and are very...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The more people we have working, the less tax they will have to pay and the greater the range of services there can be.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 13, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the transfer of proceeds from the sale of the State’s shareholding in Aer Lingus; and No. 46, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Report Stage, resumed. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) in the event a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy talks about Europe being at a dangerous crossroads and he is right. There are a range of issues that are very sensitive, very difficult to resolve and very real. At last week's European Council meeting, which was a very constructive meeting, the fault lines that now apply because of what is happening in Syria, Libya and other places were very clear with more than 1 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is wrong; I am well aware of it. He asked whether I am receiving information about these things. Of course, I am. I listen to the news like everyone else. I do not get to read all of the material that comes out but we are regularly kept informed, through our own ambassador and people in Britain, about what is happening. The answer to the Deputy's question is "Yes". He asked...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Labour Party in Britain is perfectly entitled to decide who it wants to elect and that is what it did. I wish Mr. Corbyn the very best of luck in his endeavours. Obviously, there will be a vigorous, enthusiastic and energetic internal debate about where the party is headed with that leadership and that is its business. In respect of where Europe is moving, we have contributed to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and having them implemented. The Deputy says that the European Union is on the wrong track. That is nothing new from Sinn Féin. She has never believed in the European Union and has voted against it on every occasion during the past 30 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: She is completely hypocritical about it in that her party's MEPs will come home and say "We can't have this. We can't make contributions for that service but we'll write documents in Europe and vote for them and say 'We should make contributions for some of the services that we have'." Of course, the general population here might not be aware of that. As the deputy leader of her party,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Rightly so, and you are fully entitled to be here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will because-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----suddenly the Deputy's aspirations regarding Northern Ireland and her contributions about it leave a lot to be desired. I will say why. She mentioned that the people in the North are entitled to their vote and to make their decisions. The people, North and South, made a decision in respect of the Good Friday Agreement. I would say that from her party's perspective she has lost...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----if the institutions in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement were to fail or fall because of her party's reluctance to accept responsibility regarding financial matters and reform, then upon their heads would that be. The Deputy cannot have it both ways all the time. She doesn't want contributions for services down here, yet she makes them in Northern Ireland. Her party caps...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Of course you do. She asks what the British are looking for and I have outlined that in some detail to Deputy Martin. I have pointed out to him, not as a bland generality, that I do not know the detail of what the British Prime Minister is going to present to the leaders of the European Council after the October meeting.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is what he intends to do, however, so we will know at that stage. For us, Northern Ireland is not an afterthought and far be it from Deputy McDonald to assume that. When Ireland held the EU Presidency at the start of 2013, we had personnel from Northern Ireland based in Brussels so that they were fully acquainted with what was happening. The issues were being discussed on the basis of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The county and country I live in are very different to those inhabited by the British Tories to whom Deputy McDonald might be referring. I wait with interest to see what the Prime Minister will present. He clearly indicated to me that he does not want to interfere with the principle of the freedom of movement within the European Union.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: He was very clear about that. It is a cornerstone of the European treaties in any event and he made that quite clear. I will wait and see what the detail of his presentations will be when he makes them in October.