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- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: He is well able to comment on that.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I assure Deputy Boyd Barrett that the Government is rock solid and has a very big programme for Government which will take five years to implement. It will run its full term in the interests of the country and in running the country we will not renege on our sovereign commitments, which were entered into by the previous Administration. We want to re-engineer and restructure the promissory...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to deal with our problems and sort out our public finances. Services and exports have grown at the greatest rate in the past five years according to figures announced yesterday. There are serious challenges ahead and we are not afraid to make these choices, as they are in the interest of our country, our people and our economic prospects for the future. The problem will not go away...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should look around himself when he is talking about things falling apart.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive, together. I spoke with British Prime Minister Cameron last week in advance of his speech on the EU and UK relations. I also saw him and spoke to him briefly at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Outside of the European Council meetings, I expect to meet bilaterally with him, probably in March, for the first of our annual summits to...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald should read the report. I have no intention of going down her route of wanting to make some kind of political football about this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What I refer to here is the truth and reality, which has now been uncovered and laid out for everyone to read and to understand, to discuss and debate arising from the McAleese report. It might interest the Deputy that just over 10% of those who attended Magdalen laundries were sent there by families, while 19% of those residents in the Magdalen laundries went in there themselves. As I...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out to the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out to the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ----- the youngest person to be admitted was nine years of age and the oldest was 89 years of age. This is not a report for any kind of glib remarks but is a report-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not suggest she made such a remark.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am not suggesting-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: What Deputy Shatter said when he was on the far side of the House in opposition has been proven to be true. There was State intervention in respect of numbers of these residents of the Magdalen laundries.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is outlined in the details and statistics uncovered by Senator McAleese. However, Deputy McDonald should be aware it is not a single issue story. All 10,000 of the residents arrived in the Magdalen laundries through a variety of circumstances and for a variety of reasons-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----not the least of which was destitution and poverty, as was outlined starkly in the report. Consequently, as I stated, I really am sorry that it has taken until July 2011 to trigger the initiative by the Government to have a report-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----such as that put together by Senator McAleese with his team.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am grateful to him for doing that and regret very much that-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that the stigma attached to those residents in-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: ---- those Magdalen laundries was not removed over very many years when something could have been done about it.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Consequently, I look forward to Deputy McDonald's contribution-----