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- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What I am interested in is repeating that, on behalf of this State, I am absolutely sorry for all that happened in the Magdalen laundries. Deputy McDonald might think that is not sufficient but if people had said they were sorry for actions on many occasions in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----things might have been very different in this country. They might have been very different.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Despite what Deputy McDonald thinks, this Government will take the McAleese report, consider it sensitively and comprehensively and then we will decide what is the best thing to do in order to look after the needs and the requirements of the survivors of the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is the story of young women and girls in Magdalen laundries during a very long and sad period in this State's history. Unlike all other Governments-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----this Government will now deal with it. We put in place a process for the production of the truth and the stories of those women, as told to the McAleese committee, are true. They are believed and it is our duty to act on those in the most appropriate, responsible and fitting fashion and that is what we will do.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I accept the Deputy's comment, his expression of sorrow of not having dealt with the Magdalen laundries situation when responsibility was his and his party's. If I recall correctly, they refused to investigate it then, but that is a different issue. This Government is dealing with it. In the context of the McAleese report, which sets out the truth, it should also be recognised, in...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The report which was commissioned by the Government, which former Senator McAleese chaired, was one that was determined in consultation with the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, and the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, before the United Nations committee made its recommendation. This, however, is about women and young girls who entered Magdalen laundries through a variety...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads have not yet been cleared but I expect that they will shortly come before Government for clearance. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, had been intensively involved on this and I expect results in the near future.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: It will be published as soon as it is cleared by Government. It will then be discussed here. As Deputy Shortall will be aware, it is an issue that affects many.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 25, National Lottery Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). Private Members' business shall be No. 90, motion re promissory notes.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill is on Second Stage and the health (amendment) Bill will be taken this session. For the first time, budget allocations for hospitals are based on projected spend rather than on historic budgets, which caused a lot of difficulties in the past. One Bill is on Second Stage and the other is expected this session.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This can be discussed in some detail on Committee Stage. There was a complete change in the way budgets were allocated. Previously it was done by historic spend and now it will be done on projected spend for the future.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: They were historic budgets asking how much the hospital spent the year before.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: On the Magdalen report, once again I think Senator McAleese for his report, which is 1,000 pages long and very comprehensive. I think of the 10,000 residents. They know their stories, they have told their stories and their stories have been believed. Many of them lived with an undeserved stigma that was of great disservice to the experience of these women. That stigma has been removed by...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Department wrote to the Deputy on 5 December that it would be progressed as soon as possible, taking into account consultation and the need to dispose of a number of urgent Bills in the Department, including the EU-IMF programme of financial support for the State. Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, is in discussions with the...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is nearing completion and will be published shortly. The sale of timber has been decided by Government in respect of the sale of State assets to be considered by Government at the appropriate time. Of course there will be opportunities for statements and discussions about that in the House.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Is the Deputy talking about the local enterprise offices?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: There was a report on that issue today from the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The Bill will be in the House during this session.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The health information Bill is due later this year.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The day-to-day running of An Garda Síochána is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and is not interfered with in any way. There were some who said we should have driving permits for people who are over the limit but that is another matter. The minerals development Bill is complex but it is due later in the session.