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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is a small country and most people have a political record of one description or another. That does not mean it should be the only criterion that should apply to appointments to boards. Under previous administrations there was no process at all for public involvement in board appointments. Before this Government took up office, in the last few days of that regime, a couple of hundred...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Government was very conscious of the fact that it would put in place a process that would not divide the country. In my view, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, Deputy Jerry Buttimer, did a first-class job in chairing that committee's hearings.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: As he requested, the hearings were temperate, considered and well-meaning from different perspectives. As the Deputy is aware, the Chairman of the committee does not prepare the Bill. The purpose of the hearings was to have reflection, analysis, views and a consideration of the heads of the Bill that were approved by Government. The heads of the Bill were based on a number of important...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: No. The position is that we are required to clarify the circumstances under which a medical intervention is possible where the life of a mother is threatened. We are required to provide legal certainty in respect of the X case. The general prohibition on abortion in Ireland is restated in the heads of the Bill. This Bill is about saving lives, not ending them. It does, and will, provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Numbers (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: Currently, 29 members of staff in my Department are work-sharing. This represents 14% of my Department's total staff. In considering requests to participate in the Civil Service work-sharing scheme, my Department considers its operating requirements and endeavours to tailor workloads to allow for flexible attendance patterns that accommodate the business needs of my Department and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Numbers (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Government welcomes the Haddington Road proposals. Obviously, I am very grateful to the Labour Relations Commission for the work its staff have put into this, particularly the chief executive officer. Each union now has draft regulations for its own rules and procedures. The Government has published legislation which we must enact in any case to implement pay reductions and other...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy knows a bit about this I think. Deputy Wallace was very clear in his comments that he was using a mobile telephone in his car, a Garda car pulled up beside him and there was a short exchange. From this point of view Deputy Wallace had committed an offence by using a mobile telephone while driving.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Shatter, was very clear in his statement that when driving home he came into a line of cars where there was a checkpoint and breathalysers. It is mandatory and set out in the Act that every car or every second, third, fourth or fifth car as determined by the chief officer must be pulled in and whether one is a pioneer or not one is breathalysed. The Minister, Deputy...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Act states if a person is unable to complete the breathalyser requirement-----

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----the Garda retains discretion and the authority to take the matter a step further and this is clearly set out in the Act. If one were to believe reports the Minister, Deputy Shatter, drove off in a cloud in the middle of this. Nothing is further from the truth. Does Deputy Adams believe the formal letter from the Office of the Garda Commissioner? It confirms to the Secretary General of...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: There is a difference here as I pointed out. Deputy Wallace was using a mobile telephone which is an offence under the law. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, committed no offence.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Shatter was driving home and came to a checkpoint operated by the Garda on a public street with lines of cars waiting to be checked. In accordance with the setting up of the checkpoint a garda instructed which cars were to be checked on that occasion.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Shatter committed no offence.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: As a person who suffers with an asthmatic condition he made two attempts to complete the breathalyser test.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: The law is very clear on this.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: If the person in question is unable to complete the breathalyser test-----

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and there is a reasonable excuse here-----

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----it is the decision of the garda in question in consultation with his or her superior as to what to do.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Shatter committed no offence at all.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Enda Kenny: There is a difference between this particular incident and that of Deputy Wallace. Let me remind Deputy Adams that no report was generated by the garda involved.