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Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the latter question, I am bound by the Ceann Comhairle's direction. I cannot answer for Mrs. Justice McGuinness's group. It has published its terms of reference and it is now analysing the situation in respect of EirGrid, the western and southern routes and also the question of the interconnector for the North. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, has made it perfectly clear that we need to...

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I understand Deputy Timmins's request. A vote is scheduled for tomorrow evening. I will ask the Chief Whip to look at the Deputy's request to see if we can be generous if not flexible.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the notice from the Secretary of State, as I told the Deputy, I know I was informed late in the evening that it was the intention to issue a statement not approving of an investigation into Ballymurphy. I will have to check for Deputy Adams to ascertain whether the copy of the statement was submitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade or to the Department of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for his contribution. Everybody can agree that the suffering of all victims is the same. Therefore they deserve justice and for the truth to emerge in respect of each of their sad and tragic cases. It is true to say that Sinn Féin has signed up to the Haass talks and that other parties have not. Therefore when two parties such as these have a disagreement about an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments. On the previous occasion, we split these questions into Northern Ireland and issues related to the Prime Minister. Two of the 37 questions grouped together related to Ukraine and Russia and I did not refer to those in my reply. Perhaps I should have put those two as a subsection. As I have told the Deputy before, I am willing to have Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 37, inclusive, together. These questions concern my bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Cameron on 11 March in Downing Street and Northern Ireland related issues. I answered a question in this respect on the last occasion in January of this year and at that time and in light of previous representations, I took questions in two groups and on a...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know it is Deputy Flanagan’s intention to be at Lake Garda himself. Good luck to him with the electorate. They may well decide to send him there for more reasons than one. The Deputy is perfectly entitled to raise his case. The environmental scheme I mentioned, introduced by the Minister, puts €1.45 billion into the pockets of small farmers mostly and smaller entities,...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I have already stated on many occasions that those people who have issues which need to be brought to public attention in doing a service will be treated with the respect it deserves. The Guerin report has found that, in particular, Sergeant McCabe has been vindicated in the issues he raised. Arising from this report the Government has responded in acting decisively and clearly to have a...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept that from the Deputy or anybody else. In the three years in which the Government has been in office, more was achieved than in the previous 16 years.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I point to the catastrophic economic consequences left behind by our predecessors in government, which left our bond interest rates at 15% in July 2011; they are now 2.79%. Approximately 300,000 people lost employment, which brought catastrophic economic consequences on their backs, but we have reversed that process to a point where we are now creating at least 1,000 jobs per week. We still...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----on behalf of the Government, I stated we would treat them with the gravity and the seriousness they deserved. From that we appointed Mr. Guerin, who has produced his report, and we have now confirmed a formal decision to have a commission of investigation into these matters. With the County Cork Bailey case and other related matters, after two weeks we had a Supreme Court judge, Mr....

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----but I beg to differ. The Deputy has continued to reference my quoting the wrong section of the Garda Síochána Act. I quoted the wrong section and I apologised for that to the House. The Deputy accepted the apology then but of course he does not want to do so now.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I saw the Deputy's poster at Malin Head so I know he is interested in the small farmers of the west.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for referencing the small farmers of my native county. He forgets one factor in his analysis of the agricultural sector, which is productivity. The original intention from many of the former eastern bloc countries was to have a flat rate payment across the board. Were that to happen productivity in this country would drop drastically. One cannot equate a 300 acre farm in...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has become all seeing and all knowledgeable about all things of late. I recall a departmental official going before an Oireachtas committee on two occasions confirming that the Deputy had been told about a particular report a number of years ago, about which he had denied all responsibility. Perhaps the Deputy recalls it.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Guerin report has been published. After some independent Deputies raised these matters in the first instance, I considered the matters serious and I treated them with gravity. The Government appointed Mr. Guerin to produce a report, which has been published, and this morning the Cabinet made a number of decisions regarding it. First, we decided to establish a commission of...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: As I said, Deputy Martin knows it all.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: It was two years after the former Minister, Deputy Shatter, raised the questions arising from Donegal that the then Government was forced into establishing the Morris tribunal at an exorbitant cost to the taxpayer, following which little was enacted.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government made a number of decisions today.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Guerin report was exceptionally critical of GSOC, and was critical of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda Síochána regarding the analysis, operation and management of these matters. Therefore, when this important matter was raised here, we took it very seriously and acted speedily, decisively and clearly regarding what must be done. We need a Garda force with...