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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is the reason minimum unit pricing will be introduced-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----as well as segregation and separation within commercial outlets. There will be proper regulation of the advertising and marketing where sponsorship is involved. The Irish cricket team is in India. It failed to get sponsorship from the companies the Deputy mentioned which are not associated with either drink or tobacco. For the last number of years the Irish Open has had to be...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The first comment I make to Deputy Daly is that the reason she can bring her Bill in here is that the Government reformed Dáil procedures to allow for backbench Deputies like herself-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----to be able to bring Bills before the House. It is right and proper, and it is the Deputy's right to bring a Bill before the House. This is a very sensitive matter and all these cases are quite tragic for the woman, in particular, who is involved, the mother of the unborn child. However, Deputy Daly does not own the Constitution and neither do I. She cannot change the Constitution and...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: As I have said to Deputy Daly, the reason she has the right to bring a Private Members' Bill before the House is because the Government reformed the way we want to do business here.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy chose to bring this Bill before the House, as is her right and entitlement.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The eighth amendment to the Constitution is very clear and it refers specifically to where there is a threat to the life of the mother. I cannot change that and neither can the Deputy. It is a matter for the people to decide by a vote. The Deputy expects that the House will follow her advice and proposal and pass her legislation - clearly it is in conflict with the Constitution - and have...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The discussion starts about the entire issue with respect to the eighth amendment. I do not propose to go there, arising from the Deputy's Bill. Clearly, on the advice of the Attorney General, the Bill is unconstitutional. It has been a long-standing tradition over very many years that the advice of the Attorney General is given as formal legal adviser to the Government.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: Of course, the Deputy can have all the legal advisers she likes. I have one and it is the formal legal adviser to the Government, the Attorney General. On that basis, I do not propose to publish the advice given by the Attorney General.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The interdepartmental working group on regulating sponsorship by alcohol companies of major sporting events was established as part of a package of measures to address alcohol misuse agreed by the Government in late 2013. In the case of sports sponsorship by alcohol companies, the Government acknowledged the public health concerns associated with alcohol sponsorship of sport but also the...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The existence of a foreign bank account is not evidence in itself of tax evasion and clearly no liability will arise where relevant tax is paid on funds or any interest accruing on them. The Revenue Commissioners received data under the double taxation agreement from French authorities in June 2010. On receipt of that, they undertook an assessment and evaluation process which indicated that...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I respect the ruling of the Ceann Comhairle. The position is that Deputy Adams is questioning the Revenue Commissioners.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: He is suggesting that their investigations should have yielded more than €4.55 million.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not speak for the Revenue Commissioners, nor does Deputy Adams. They have very extensive powers under the Act which set them up.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Revenue Commissioners are well able to speak for themselves. They initiated 33 investigations as a direct result of the data given to them by the French authorities in June 2010, and 20 settlements have been reached in regard to those data. That amounts to €4.55 million.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: A further €174,442 was received in payment on account in respect of two ongoing investigations. Deputy Adams is asking me to question the authority or the way the Revenue Commissioners have gone about investigating information that they were given by the French authorities, in respect of which they have taken three criminal cases. Another case is under criminal investigation.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Committee of Public Accounts, with its Chairman, can reflect upon this. The Revenue Commissioners are completely independent in the way they do their business-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and have very extensive powers to take criminal cases, which they have done under what they said here. In respect of the Deputy's second comment, Mr. Geoghegan-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: The person mentioned was referred to by the Minister for Finance. He advised, not in respect of taxation issues, but in respect of the remuneration of senior executives and other issues of the strategy proposed by NAMA.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Enda Kenny: I tend to constantly remind Deputy Adams of this because every time------