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Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The essential point is-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The essential point is that two major parties have the biggest responsibility to sit down.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I hear a great deal of talk about the willingness of Sinn Féin to form an Executive. I accept that. Is Deputy McDonald telling me that the DUP does not want to form an Executive? That is the corollary of what she is saying.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I can answer the question for Deputy Howlin. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan, has been up there all day. He has been up there for several weeks now, off and on, working with the parties and representing the Government. He is there again today. I will be talking to him later. Deputy Howlin asked me what else I can do. The Deputy should note that if the two...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Is Deputy Howlin suggesting that we go down the old road of incentives and offer a sweet?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The people have voted. They voted for the parties. Their representatives are in Stormont. There is a requirement to put an Executive together so that we can have leadership from Northern Ireland on the issues that are going to impact on thousands of people arising from Brexit. We know what those issues are because they have been articulated by Northern Ireland businesses, trade unions,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Am I supposed to go up there with the UK Prime Minister, Ms May, take the hands of the leaders and tell them to sit down and put this together? Surely, the Sinn Féin programme and the DUP programme should be meshed in some way? There may be areas where they cannot agree but they should have a common set of objectives.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin asked what else we can do. We will continue to be very active in this regard. As I said earlier to Deputy Micheál Martin, if it means that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: If I have to go up there with the UK Prime Minister, then I will do that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The last time I spoke to the Prime Minister, I expressed the hope that the politicians elected to the assembly would accept their responsibility and get on with putting together an Executive. I think everybody can agree that this is absolutely essential if the issues that affect the people of Northern Ireland, which were voiced on two occasions at the all-island forum and on many more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: It also provides for an Executive to be set up.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am nodding my head.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. I discussed the political situation in Northern Ireland with Prime Minister May when I spoke to her by phone on 29 March. The main political parties in Northern Ireland have been invited to participate in political talks which started on Monday, 3 April in Belfast. The Irish and British Governments are agreed that this phase...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Murphy has raised a couple of issues. It is part of the programme for Government that there would be a sale of up to 25% of AIB. The Minister for Finance has made that perfectly clear on numerous occasions and is proceeding through the process of bringing that to a conclusion. In respect of pay rates, the situation is that the cap remains and if the person to succeed the current...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Murphy has expressed an interest in this on many occasions but there is no economic reason to sell a share in AIB. We are not under economic pressure to do it. The Minister for Finance, the Department and the Government will get the best professional advice they can in respect of the valuation being put on the share to be sold and that would be in the interest of the people because...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Harty is well versed in the programme for rural development, which provides opportunities and, indeed, incentives for communities and regions to benefit from it. Clearly, the Deputy is aware Norwegian Airlines added four flights from Cork and Shannon to North America this year. The numbers coming back in from there will be unprecedented. Tourism Ireland is actively looking at the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: A number of years ago, the Government made a decision to give Shannon Airport freedom to do its own business and it has improved greatly since then.

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The optimism I feel about Shannon is voiced by many people in business in the mid-west region. Deputy Harty will look at the increase in employment and investment in the greater region in recent years and see clearly that Shannon has a very bright future. It is not for me to decide whether Aer Lingus and the DAA advertise by whatever method. Some 120,000 people from the north-west would...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party has a particular use of certain words like "sabotage".

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Paul Murphy sabotaged the Deputy's own party's view on this because Sinn Féin favoured water charges.