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- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: It has provided an economic lift and injection-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that in many ways has shielded that locality from the recession which has affected the rest of the country. On many occasions, up to 2,000 men were working around the clock in providing a terminal.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Daly and her fellow Deputies have never referred to how people have built their houses and paid off their mortgages or to the upskilling and training for young people not just to work on that plant, but on so many others. The benefits of this will be seen when the gas actually flows-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will welcome the day on which it will flow because from my own experience, I can testify to the quality of the work that has gone in there, the standards that apply and the lessons that have been learned. Lessons have been learned, not least of which was-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: ------that people from outside my own county travelled very long distances from outside the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----to give vent to their professional protester hysterical screeches on the road outside Rossport.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive, together. On 7 February, accompanied by the Tánaiste, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, the Minister for Social Protection and the Minister for Education and Skills, I undertook a working visit to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am glad to note the political policy regulatory structures on banking governance will be examined by the Oireachtas committee free of any direction from the Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----free of any instruction from the Government and free to do as an Oireachtas committee can do under the new Act-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----which is to make its own determination of its terms of reference regarding who it should examine and call, and the period it should apply. I take scant notice of the comment from the side by Deputy Martin who was involved-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in a decision where there was a private inquiry held into banking with a specific time limit, admittedly carried out by a very competent person-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----who conducted 140 interviews. It was a time-constrained private banking inquiry. It is only appropriate that the Oireachtas committee under the new inquiries Act should be enabled to hold a public inquiry-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----into the issues of governance, regulatory authorities and policy positions.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am quite sure the members of the committee will play their full part in what is a matter of real substance and interest to the Irish people, that this should never happen again.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am well aware of the 14 years of difficulty in respect of bringing to shore the Corrib gas field. I understand tunnelling finished in recent days, the tunnel will be backfilled-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the pipe to bring the gas ashore will be put in and gas should flow from the Corrib field within the next six months or so. This is to be welcomed. I am also aware of and have had occasion in the past to visit members of the Rossport and Pollatomish area when they were in Wheatfield prison. I have had engagement with them over the years. I have also had engagement with the many...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: In any event I welcome the fact the standards employed in the Shell development are of the highest. In the area in the past 14 years, 200 to 2,000 people have been working on a daily basis-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----which has been a very significant financial and economic injection into the locality which I know very well. I hope the field will be brought ashore for the benefit of the people in the next 12 months.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Given all of the files which exist on this, all of the court cases and all of the decisions made on it, I do not agree with Deputy Daly that there should be a full public sworn inquiry into policing efforts at the Shell development in Bellanaboy.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the Deputy knows all of the people down there in the locality but I know most of them. The vast majority of those who caused all the trouble in Bellanaboy were not from the area. They were imported serial protesters who went out of their way to cause trouble-----