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Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will bring the Deputy up to date on that.

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the strategy approved by the Government today arising from the water metering programme of Irish Water which discovered that there are significant numbers of houses with lead piping through which their water supply flows, most of these are pre-1960 builds. Some buildings affected were built between 1960 and 1970, including public buildings, schools and houses. The regulator...

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It has been going on for years, Deputy Martin.

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: The heads of the domestic violence Bill are expected very shortly. The heads of the international protection Bill were cleared on 24 March, so it is on its way through the system and should not be too far away. The Minister informed the Government this morning that she expects to have the report from Mr. Justice Bryan McMahon in two weeks. That will be published and we will have a debate in...

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: 5 o’clock -----we have discussion today and tomorrow on it. For that reason, obviously, Deputy Martin and others will have the opportunity again on Topical Issues on many occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have given the House commitments before. The problem for me was that, when the convention reports came back, they were considered by Departments and sometimes by a number of Departments because of the issues that were being discussed. There were certainly some delays and I accept responsibility for not having been able to live up to the timeline we set for debates in the House. I would...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It was not a case of requiring that a 21 year old be elected but that nobody beyond the age of 21 should be debarred from competing for the office.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy was 21 again and was going to become the Taoiseach, there is no limitation upon him doing so and there is no limitation on him appointing Ministers, in that there is no age bar, whether at 35, 21 or 18 years. The convention voted against the five-year term and against aligning it with the term of MEPs. The Government accepted the convention's recommendation to reduce the...

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 16, motion re joint committees; No. 17, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 18, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) (back from committee); and No. 18a, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the draft Commission of...

Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: There is a deliberate strategy here. This is a very important matter of public interest and we are having a commission of investigation. The terms of reference were set out by the Government in draft form because of the importance of this and because of the necessity to have a clear, independent authority deal with this matter. The Minister for Finance sat down with the leaders and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: How worrying.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It has gone too far when politicians say that there will never be a peace brokered between these two regions. It has gone too far when it is said that the only thing to do is to kill them. That is not the talk or the debate of democrats who are prepared to take on challenges and sit down and work things through. The Prime Minister is well aware that in our country, with 30 years of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 13 to 19, inclusive, together. On Friday, 22 May, the Government held two referendums on foot of recommendations from the Convention on the Constitution, on the age threshold for candidates in presidential elections and on marriage equality. As the House is aware, the referendum on marriage equality was passed by a decisive majority. This is the first...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: What is going on in terms of ISIS and the Assad regime is absolutely appalling. I have seen some of the effects and read the reports and it is beyond words. The slaughter of Christians and the wanton and indiscriminate murder of people in various locations in order to set up the Caliphate of which people speak is an unspeakable brutality and an ideology of absolute hatred. From that point...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I think it was the right thing to do. We could have sent our very fine ambassador in Paris to represent us, but after speaking to her directly I concluded that, while President Hollande did not expect so many leaders to turn up, the issue was such that people wanted to express solidarity with the ideas the Deputy mentioned. It was much larger than people had imagined, in terms of both the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 12, inclusive, together. On 11 January last, I travelled to Paris following the horrific attacks there to join over 40 other Heads of State and Government in leading a march of silent solidarity together with President François Hollande and the families and colleagues of the victims. As I said at the time, the killings were an assault on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has read comments made by a number of Ministers in the Israeli Government. On the one hand, I suppose one might say they are all on-message. I find that message regrettable and most unhelpful. I do not agree with those statements. When I met Prime Minister Netanyahu briefly in Paris, I said to him that when I had an opportunity to go to Gaza a number of years ago with a...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy. He is aware, obviously, of the fact that Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide cost the taxpayer €34 billion, which was the real burden imposed on hundreds of thousands of people over that period throughout the country, when 300,000 jobs were lost and emigration became a factor in everyday life again. Obviously, with the decisions and the challenges faced up to by...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is not possible to politicise it. Otherwise, it does not work. One cannot give directions or diktats to a sole member who is handed the responsibility of running a commission of investigation in an authoritative, independent and objective way so that questions can be answered and the truth can be known, and that is what Government wishes in this case. So I cannot answer the question as...