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- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Whip's office did not receive a request from Sinn Féin for time. Sinn Féin may have gone to the Business Committee, but it did not come to the-----
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality has been invited to attend and she is attending.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Deputy should let the Minister answer. She has already been invited by the Ceann Comhairle to answer questions in the Dáil and give a briefing to the House. She is prepared to do that and that is in accordance with the rules for which Deputy Coppinger voted and which apply here. The Deputy wants to change them when it suits her. The Minister for Justice and Equality is...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: A Cheann Comhairle, we changed the rules in this House so that business could be conducted in a more open way. The Ceann Comhairle has made a decision here that the Minister should answer two Topical Issue matters today with questions.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is a decision of the Ceann Comhairle, and the Minister is quite willing to attend.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal, I understand there was an attempt to submit a special notice question by the Fianna Fáil Party spokesperson. The Ceann Comhairle made a ruling, and his decision was that the Minister for Justice and Equality should attend in the House, which she will, to answer Topical Issue matters from two Deputies, with questions from each Deputy.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: At the invitation of Deputy Ó Caoláin, the justice committee will meet at 9 a.m. on Thursday morning with the Garda Commissioner to answer a range of questions.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: We have the Garda Commissioner meeting with the Policing Authority. I have said the Government made a decision to have an independent analysis of all these figures and to examine a broader issue about the structure and the future of the Garda Síochána. We all need to get more information, and in some cases that information is not available to the Tánaiste and Minister for...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I say to Deputy Howlin that she will be very happy to give the same briefing to the House that she gave to the Cabinet this morning.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: This afternoon in the Topical Issue debate.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will be before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport tomorrow at the time the protest is taking place. The Government has increased the public service obligation, PSO, funding by €28 million in each of the past two years.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Today is 28 March-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----the fifth day of all out strike at Bus Éireann. The biggest impact is on Bus Éireann's PSO network because on the Expressway network, which is the root cause of this particular problem, there are other competitors who take up the slack when Bus Éireann is not there.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Expressway service, which is the root cause of this problem-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----is least affected by this.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Expressway service is least affected because there are other buses travelling on that route. Apart from some spillover strike action on Friday which impacted on Iarnród Éireann, the other CIE companies have been unaffected.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: SIPTU announced on Monday that it will ballot its members on Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann for industrial action.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: No date for balloting has been set but people are perfectly entitled to protest and protest can send powerful signals, when it is legitimate of course.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The solution and resolution of this strike does not lie outside the gates of Leinster House but around the WRC table. Both sides have admitted that there are issues that need to be discussed. That is the opportunity for them to discuss those, at the WRC.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy knows that a Minister cannot sit at that table because everybody else would then say the Government is stepping in for all of these issues. The Deputy knows that very well.