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- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The fact of the matter is that there was a request made to the Government Whip for the Minister for Justice and Equality to come into the House to make a statement and answer questions. That is what is on the Order Paper. I have no control over people in tabling Priority Questions.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Neither do I have control over complaints made to the SIPO, the Standards in Public Office Commission, or the Data Protection Commissioner. These are completely independent matters. I am happy to have tabled this motion in response from our perspective and, in order that everyone is quite clear on this, requests from Opposition Whips that the Minister come into the House to make a...
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin can come this evening-----
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy still has not lost it. The purpose of this evening’s business is to answer questions the Deputy might have for the Minister.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Regarding confidentiality between citizens and politicians, is the Deputy referring to the section in the Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries (Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013, Second Stage of which will be taken tomorrow?
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: That Bill will be taken during this session.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Will the Deputy repeat his question?
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government has decided on two referendums, one on the abolition of Seanad Éireann and the second on a code of civil appeal. In its own time it will make further decisions about further referendums.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I know it is in the programme for Government. I am telling the Deputy that the Government will makes it decisions about referendums in its own time. He need not worry as we will have loads of them.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: There will be no foot-dragging on this issue. I have not received the report and do not wish to make a direct inquiry to Mr. Justice Quirke who is conducting the report. I expect that he will furnish it as quickly as is appropriate for him to conclude his work. The Government will then consider the report and publish it. We will see what recommendations Mr. Justice Quirke makes therein....
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government originally set out in conjunction with the troika a list of potential sales of State assets.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: One involved the sale of the harvesting rights of timber on land owned by Coillte, but not the land. A great deal of work has been done in the evaluation of what that actually means in terms of potential value and so on. It is always the right of the Government to decide what to do with that information, as well as the timing, appropriateness and under what conditions any of the State...
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: He can tell them the Government will make its decision when the matter comes before us. It has not come before us and the Deputy can tell them that also. I hope that is clear for him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: They ask all these questions particularly about telecommunications and things like that, as if there was something surreptitious going on here when everything is completely clear about where we are and all the rest of it-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: If they do not get information by way of questions here they go off on their own tangents and raise their own issues. I make the point to Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett that the question of the EU-US trade agreement is one for approval for a mandate to negotiate only. While the US, as they say, or other countries, might wish to have access to particular markets that does not mean that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Maybe the Deputies do not want to recognise that because they love to hide behind the curtain of austerity every day of the week instead of recognising reality.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies should go out and meet these people when they are coming out of those multinational firms every evening and talk to them about the work they do, about the fact that they are changing the future and about the way they are working.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputies do not have a weekly protest to go to or to organise they feel disillusioned and despondent.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 15, statements on pre-European Council meeting of 22 May; No. 15a, statements on the matter related to issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion, on the Supplementary Order Paper. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn on the adjournment of...