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Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know Deputies Martin and Adams well enough. They can complain about it if they wish but I think it streamlines the business of the House. We now know the business for the week. We discussed this before and Deputy Martin would not agree. When he requested changes, we made them.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I think it is very orderly. There are Leaders' Questions and Topical Issues today and we will take Leaders' Questions tomorrow and Thursday. We will take Private Members' business this evening and on Thursday morning. There will be an announcement in the Dáil, where it should be made, tomorrow at 3 p.m., and thereafter we will have a debate tomorrow evening and until 8 p.m. on...

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We learned a lesson last year because there was a lot of criticism about the build-up of legislation in the context of the troika and everything else during the last session of the Dáil.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: No legislation was guillotined this year. I do not think one will find its equivalent in the records of the Dáil over the past 40 years. Legislation was guillotined time after time, Government after Government. There was no guillotine on any legislation in 2014. What we have here is a motion on water reforms, on which the House will vote at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Whips were notified. Last week, when we discussed this issue, I indicated to the House that the decision would be announced in a statement to the Dáil on Wednesday and that there would be a debate thereafter.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We have had discussions here before about having one Order of Business to discuss business for the entire week. This is an issue on which everybody has commented, perfectly legitimately, in the past few months. It is important that the Minister is making a statement to the Dáil, by way of a motion, on which the debate can start thereafter in the House, involving the leaders and all...

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: There will be Leaders' Questions tomorrow, as normal, and the Deputies can ask whatever questions they wish to ask. However, it is important that, once the Government has signed off on the announcement, the House be informed first as to what it is. The debate will then take place on it.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: As the Government has not formally signed off on any of it, the decision will be announced to the House. That did not happen on many occasions in the past.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will present his Dáil statement as a motion which will continue to be debated tomorrow after his announcement in the House. We will have the second half of Private Members' business on Thursday morning, after Leaders' Questions, and then deal with the motion again, with a vote at 8 p.m.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Last week we had the diversionary tactic of the Sinn Féin deputy leader sitting here for four or five hours, costing the taxpayer another €130,000.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Delaying tactics, delaying legislation such as the discussion on the Social Welfare Bill, which has implications for the payment of the Christmas bonus-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Sinn Féin leader then comes into the House today to speak about placing stories and all the rest-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Stories about privatisation and the estimated cost of water.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Tomorrow at 3 p.m. the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will outline in the House, as is appropriate, the decisions taken by the Government on Irish Water.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know that Deputies Micheál Martin, Gerry Adams, Joe Higgins, Niall Collins and everybody else on the other side of the House will want to have this issue debated and discussed.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: As I indicated last week, Members will have an opportunity to engage in discussion tomorrow and on Thursday on the decisions of the Government, with a vote taking place on Thursday evening at the end of the debate on the motion to be proposed by the Minister tomorrow.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The motion will be discussed in the Dáil, where it should be discussed. For years other parties refused to bring such business before the Dáil. They went off outside and had their big day, with their big notices, and then failed to deliver. After the discussion, the matter is back before the House, where it should be debated.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will deliver the information tomorrow on behalf of the Government.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: That is completely incorrect.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is not the first time the Order of Business has been changed in the House. There have been many occasions over the years when a matter of considerable importance arose and times or topics were changed. In the past number of years Deputies have made requests which have been facilitated.