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- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and of our country. From that point of view, I would say to Deputy Donnelly that he has never been afraid to deal with what has been lying under a lot of carpets for many years. This Government will not stand for not having public accountability-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and will have the courage to take on vested interests in the interest of our citizens and of our country, and I will stand by that on any platform.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No.18, statements on European Council, Brussels, pursuant to Standing Order 102A (2)(b) and No.19, statements on the Garda Inspectorate report on the fixed charge processing system. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and shall adjourn on the conclusion of Private Members’ business which...
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It was the Secretary General.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: No. The Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: She had to get all her facts.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Not the scale of it. I said that to Deputy Martin.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It was not on that issue that I rang the Attorney General.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The reason that more time has not been allocated to this is that we are not in possession of all the facts, as I outlined to Deputy Martin. As this information becomes available, of course, we will return to the matter. It will be debated fully here, with as many questions as Members wish to ask. However, one has to be in a position to give answers to questions. I thought it sufficiently...
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are drafting the terms of reference for a committee of investigation which can be debated here as well as further issues arising from this. This will not be the last time we will turn to this.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Donnelly. I will put the interests of the citizens and the country ahead of everything else, be it the Government or any individual Minister. That is what is important here and that is the reason I decided to take the actions I took. The Deputy has mentioned a list of things. If the Minister for Justice and Equality had no relationship whatsoever with the former Garda...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Members opposite all refer to too close a relationship. The Minister of the day has a duty, with the Commissioner of the day, to hear the complaints, anxieties and concerns about the running of the Garda Síochána, which is the remit of the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will deal with the question of the whistleblowers when he speaks on the report of the Garda inspectorate. The Minister himself was the first to state that GSOC, in the way it was set up, could not function to its full potential and was inadequate in a number of respects. This is the reason he wishes to change it and the reason an Oireachtas committee is considering these matters.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: That also is the reason the position of the confidential recipient was abolished, because that process did not work either and because of the particular circumstances that applied there.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister was big enough to apologise to Deputy Wallace and to state he was sorry. As for the question of the Attorney General not speaking to me by telephone on a matter as great as this, it is a position I respect. I have made the point myself previously many times that if matters of this nature are to be discussed, they should be presented on a face-to-face basis. Let me say to...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Everything is not fine. The matter must be dealt with in a way that builds a system in which there is belief, faith and integrity. This is the reason I considered it important to inform the Cabinet members and the leaders of the Opposition about the implications of what is involved in this regard. This is the reason the discovery process dealing with a particular case will bring to light...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I seek, in the shortest possible time, a system whereby members of the force have absolute pride in the job they do - those who commit themselves to the protection of citizens from criminal or other activities - and that those who find there is something wrong have a system of being protected and are respected for what they do in the interests of having a system that runs in the manner one...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not stand in judgment in a competition about the criteria to which the Deputy has just referred. Deputy Donnelly began his contribution by stating I had informed the House yesterday that a secret group were bugging gardaí. I made no such claim. I said it had come to light during the process of discovery that 2,485 tapes existed up to 2008 and that from that point until 2013-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----these were recorded in a digital fashion.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, but in the letter the previous Commissioner sent to the Department of Justice and Equality, he stated it has since transpired that the systems would appear to have been installed during the 1980s. Consequently, I ask Deputy Donnelly to get his facts right in this case. I did not state that a secret group within the Garda was going around bugging gardaí themselves and the public.