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- Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the criminal records information system Bill were approved in April of this year and the scheduled time for publication is approximately the middle of 2013.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill were approved in July by the Cabinet. The Garda Síochána (malicious injuries compensation) Bill is expected to be published early in 2013.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the gambling control Bill have not been approved yet by the Government. Therefore, it will be next year before it arrives on the table.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Both the DNA Bill, which is complex, and the civil registration Bill will be published in this session.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: It has been signalled on numerous occasions in recent months that tomorrow is the day for the digital switchover. One hopes very few screens will go blank, but there will always be a few. That must obviously be rectified, one way or another, in order that people will be able to watch their programmes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I want to make the ones that are there work first.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: We have a lot to do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I have a lot of difficulties to deal with, most of them created by the Deputy's-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin seems to think we can be moving around Europe, Northern Ireland and everywhere but here. I remind him there is a set of circumstances that apply in sorting out our own public finances and getting our economy moving again, which take up the vast majority of my time, as he will understand.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I like to think there is a great deal of work that can be done by the bodies that are already set up. I want to follow this through at the next North-South Ministerial Council on 2 November. I take the Deputy's point about the anti-sectarian issue. That is an issue of concern to everyone. Deputy Martin is well aware of the close co-operation between the PSNI and the Garda. Yes, I saw some...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I did not raise the specific Irish language issue with David Cameron. The strategic partnership agreement that we signed enhances the relationship between Ireland and Britain, and between here and Northern Ireland, to a great extent. I do not have any great wish to set off on the appointment of a plethora of new bodies for the moment. Before I give the Deputy a view of some of the things...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The reason for the slight disruption while the Deputy was speaking was that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was just saying to me that personal information is free under the Freedom of Information Act and that the charge per request is only a fraction of the actual cost of determining the information. The Deputy said his party had put forward a proposition. The Minister,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The general scheme of the Bill is already on the Department website and can be accessed by the public. The intention is to extend the provisions to cover a number of high profile public bodies, including the Central Bank, the NTMA and NAMA, but not in full. Clearly, commercial confidentiality must be respected. It is the Minister's intention to expand the scope of the Bill, but with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Acknowledgements are of real value.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The previous Administration tore the heart out of the Freedom of Information Act. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has had the heads of his Bill approved and it has been sent to the committee and is on the Department's website. We will deal with the question of expansion of the Freedom of Information Act and its restoration to the way it should be. I agree that as much...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I will address it again. It was the single most fundamental economic decision ever made in this country, in which the then Government landed €64 billion on the backs of the Irish people, but there is no file in the Department of the Taoiseach that tells me and the public who met whom, who said what or why the decision was made. It is incredible, yet the Deputy comes in here and says...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy White, has responsibility for primary care centres, and we want to build many more of them. If Deputy Martin, in all his wisdom, could take the original list of 300 centres drawn up by the HSE and determine whether 199 should be in place of 75 or whatever, he is a Solomon. However, he cannot come in and demand we publish all this information. He himself will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: If we have an assessment to find this out, I hope the Deputy will come along and give truthful and up-front evidence about what he said when asked a question in the incorporeal meeting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 8 together. The St. Andrews Agreement of 2006 was aimed at achieving full and effective operation of the political institutions in Northern Ireland, which has been achieved. The devolution of justice and policing powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2010 was a significant step forward in the full implementation of the St. Andrews Agreement....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I do not know whether Deputy Martin was just the recipient of a telephone call as part of the incorporeal meeting.