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- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to Deputy Adams's second question is that there has been a great deal of comment about the electromagnetic fields emanating from transmission grid infrastructure. That is the reason the Minister for Health wrote to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, about an underground cable carrying the interconnector coming from Britain through the main street of...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has a fixed view. The Minister pointed out last night that the analysis of the cost of under-grounding the North-South interconnector was more than €800 million, with a difference of €600 million between over ground and underground. These are issues and facts that need to be debated and discussed so that people can make up their minds. The planning and...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: There has been a great deal of concern and comment about these two propositions. The Minister received 30,000 observations. He stated on several occasions that he would come back before the end of January with a response to those concerns. He brought a formal memorandum to the Government yesterday and the Government made a formal decision. This is not a secret, backroom analysis-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----but a formal Government decision. In this democracy the Cabinet meets on Tuesday mornings and makes its decisions in respect of issues on the agenda. We cannot announce everything in here.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is entitled to report as he said he would on the issues before him. That formal Government memorandum concludes a particular section on non-ionising radiation, electromagnetic fields and health issues which are the responsibility of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The merger of two agencies will supply that information. The necessary...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am surprised Deputy Calleary has questioned the capacity of the personnel appointed to the commission-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----by the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte. Is anybody suggesting that the economists, Professor John Fitzgerald and Mr. Colm McCarthy, do not have independent minds?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Is anybody suggesting indicating that Dr. Karen Foley, head of the school of landscape architecture in UCD, is not-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----a competent person? Is anybody suggesting that Professor Keith Bell from the engineering department of Strathclyde University is not internationally recognised as being a person of competence? As Deputy Calleary is well aware, the commission, which is chaired by Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness, the eminent retired Supreme Court judge, will have the option of obtaining any expert...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Calleary is aware, the proposals relating to both projects are new. On the Deputy's question regarding the extension of the commission's remit to consider the North-South interconnector, this project is necessary. In addition, it relates to an item of infrastructure that is critical in the context of the development of the economy in the years ahead. The Minister, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept that political assertion from the Deputy. As already stated, people have had concerns and anxieties about this matter. Some of these were valid, while others were not.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have always stated that what is needed in this instance is to address the challenge for the future, which the Deputy well recognises and which must be dealt with in a common sense and rational way. The response of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to the 30,000 submissions received has been to establish the McGuinness commission, which is chaired by an eminent...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and which includes independent national and international experts, to examine the overhead and underground options and publish its findings in order that everyone can understand that all of the relevant issues have been taken into account. A great deal of work has been done on the North-South interconnector for the past eight years, including assessments and the completion of the...
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The heads of that Bill were cleared in December and it will be published in this session. We have seen incidents of this before, where young couples were able to purchase their homes that originally belonged to councils.
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: This session.
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not know. I would not want to lead the Deputy astray. The Bill is in the final stages of being drafted. It will be debated this session. I will provide the Deputy an update when we know when it will be on paper.
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: There is no intention of having a referendum in 2014. I made that clear before. The Government will give consideration to the referendums it will hold in 2015. This legislation is at heads of the Bill stage, but there is no intention to hold a referendum in 2014.
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not listed for publication until next year, as the Deputy is aware. There were 61 contenders for publication in this session. There used to be three sessions in the Dáil year, but there are now just two. There are 41 Bills in the list and it is pretty crammed as it is. The work is ongoing in that area. The Deputy is right in that sales are taking place, but at the moment it is...
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: That dog has been whistled back a few times in the past. He is still running, so we will have to see what priority has been accorded to it by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. No date has been listed for it.
- Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance has made his views known on the way that NAMA is now performing, and the changes that have been brought about. It is not listed for any other legislative proposal. He is happy with the way it is moving.