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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am reminded of the late President Kennedy's comments that we all inhabit the same planet, we all breathe the same air and we are all mortal.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Indeed. When Deputy Mathews referred to NATO and all of that, I recalled when I went to Berlin last week that, actually, Ireland's entry to the EEC at the time was refused by President de Gaulle on the basis that we were not members of NATO. It was a German economic Minister who came over here in 1962 and who went back and reported that this was a country that it would be good to have join...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 to 7, inclusive, together. I chaired six Cabinet committee meetings in February, five in March and four in May. The Cabinet committee on health met once in February and twice in May. The Cabinet committee on mortgage arrears and credit availability met once in March and once in May. The Cabinet committees on public service reform and social policy each...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy mean the one dealing with the statutory authority for the Garda?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: As stated earlier, we discussed the former President's views on Ukraine and how suddenly one part of it, namely Crimea, was annexed. He was interested in explaining the work of the Clinton Global Initiative in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The former President has an enormous grasp of global politics and, as a result of his experience, of the geopolitics of the Middle East and other...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I did not have a discussion on this point but I will have a look at what has happened and I will advise the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Let us change it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I agree that we cannot have a situation where those who are elected and have influence can decide not to accept a recommendation or decision by an independent body with statutory authority. I made the point to the Deputy First Minister when I called him, after Deputy Adams had been taken in by the PSNI, that if there was a dark side to the PSNI, the option was open to make a formal complaint...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the programmes, companies and communities involved will hone their work to best effect. It is about getting the best output from the moneys put in. For that reason, the tender process has been introduced. Otherwise, it will lead to all of the old stories of how it is that this is transferred each year to company X or company Y.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: There is no reason the companies doing the job cannot be awarded the work as a result of their tenders on this occasion either.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Former US President Bill Clinton took the opportunity to meet me on 4 March when he was in Dublin en routeto a series of engagements in Northern Ireland. We discussed a number of political and development aid issues. At the time, the political and security situation in Ukraine and Crimea was evolving rapidly and we took the opportunity to discuss the latest developments in that country. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The discussion I had on Northern Ireland with former President Clinton went back to his own involvement in the North and its difficulties, his appointment of George Mitchell and his continued interest in the place. He said in Derry, "I was here 20 years ago. Go on and finish the job, if you can." The difficulties have been outlined by representatives of the different parties in Northern...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin appointed the chair of the advisory board of safefood, Ms Lynn Boylan, a very good candidate, to do the job. I will not comment on the basis of the Deputy's first question.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Anybody nominated by any country to serve as a Commissioner of the European Union must attend the European Parliament for sessions lasting three or four hours on his or her suitability and appropriateness for appointment. For the first time ever, the Deputy's party has a number of representatives there.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Whoever is nominated as European Commissioner, these representatives will have the opportunity to ask questions in the fora they represent and where the Commissioner will represent the country, that is, at the European Parliament.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: All MEPs, over 750, will have the opportunity during the three or four hour session to ask questions.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: When somebody is appointed from here, the Deputy can have whatever questions he likes asked by his party's members in the European forum.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Traveller community programmes are important because they have always been tailored to the particular needs and circumstances of the Traveller groups with which they deal. I have seen a number of them working. I am sure the Minister can take into account the five points raised by the Deputy. This is not the privatisation of such work but the opportunity for existing and other companies...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: There was much scaremongering in abolishing Leader groups and voluntary organisations which was without foundation.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will examine the case made by the National Traveller Partnership. There is no reason the existing companies cannot win and be awarded the work. They already have experience of doing it.