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- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "Yes." The reason is I thought it appropriate, given the nature of the information made available to me, that the Commissioner should be made aware of its gravity amd how I felt about it and the implications. For the Deputy's information and that of the country, I attended an occasion in Dublin on Sunday. In the morning I called the Attorney General who said...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes. She indicated that there was another matter of which I should be made aware, but she was not prepared to talk to me about the matter on the telephone.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Well Deputy Mattie McGrath may laugh.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Had Deputy Mattie McGrath been apprised of the situation, he might have a very different view. In conversation with the Attorney General about the specific case referred to, I also received the information from her that the potential scale was far beyond the particular case. I want to make it clear that in the assessment of the contents of a small number of tapes that had been transcribed...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Attorney General's fundamental constitutional position is to give legal advice to the Government. She is bound to have all of the facts at her disposal before she makes a judgment.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thought it right, in the interests of having a police force - An Garda Síochána - that stood up to scrutiny in terms of its competence and professionalism and in which people throughout the community could have faith, trust and belief, that I should bring the matter to the attention of the Cabinet. I know that the media focus was on crunch meetings to deal with the comments made...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday Deputy Mattie McGrath made the point that the GSOC report had referred to the fact that all of this had arisen from the Waterford case. The GSOC report referred to the particular case in Waterford police station. It did not refer to the much wider trawl that has now brought to light more than 2,500 tapes and the rest from 2008 to 2013 that are of a digital nature. That is why it...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I assure Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, John Halligan, Thomas Pringle, Joan Collins and Catherine Murphy that I am prepared to brief any one of them, but I need to know from the Technical Group who its spokesperson is.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Who is its spokesperson?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Should we call the Deputy?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I take the Deputy's point and thank her for reaffirming it. Briefings that take place in the future will include the Technical Group and the telephone call will be made to the Deputy's office. She will decide whether Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan or whoever else will turn up.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The courts struck down the legislation. The two Bills to which Deputy Joe Higgins referred, the workplace relations Bill and the industrial relations (No. 2) Bill, are due for publication this session.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The low carbon development Bill and the international tax agreement Bill are due for publication later this year.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: A lot of work has been done on the Bill in the Department, but I do not have a date for its publication. Deputy Durkan has raised the issue on around 20 occasions already.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has not met them recently, but I understand the matter is before the courts.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Children First Bill is due this session. I do not have a date of publication for the Central Bank (consolidation) Bill. It is a serious piece of work.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill were cleared last December and the Bill is due for publication this session, prior to the summer.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is as hypocritical as ever. I asked him to come to Government Buildings to brief him and Deputy Adams on an issue that is of considerable importance to security and justice in the State and so on. The Garda Press Office issued its statement, as I said to the Deputy-----
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----at 12.17 p.m.