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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: That person's job is to be at the occasions where the Barnier task force is doing its work and we become aware of that. As I said, the Barnier task force will not make any decisions. That is a function of the European Council, which will oversee that politically. I can confirm to the Deputy that the Barnier task force regards the Border and Northern Ireland as one of its top priorities and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I will set out the detail of that on Wednesday next. I will try to answer any questions arising from that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Eamon Ryan is away.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Eamon Ryan is out with the gun like Usain Bolt up there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Eamon Ryan took off like Usain Bolt. I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 8, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met on 30 January 2017. It is due to meet again later this month. The committee addresses the climate change challenge in terms of domestic policy and in respect of Ireland's EU and international...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Eamon Ryan is wrong here. If the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment had not had his accident, I expect that the dialogue to which we committed following the Deputy's own attendance at the Cabinet sub-committee, which was a useful meeting, would be up and running by now. It is the Minister's intention fully to engage with the groups Deputy Eamon Ryan brought...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: There is a review on the latter matter under way by the Minister at present and he will report to the House in due course. The national dialogue on climate change will gather representatives of civil society to discuss and maximise consensus on climate actions. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government would hope that there will be a merger between the climate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: As everybody is aware, there is an election coming up in Northern Ireland. I do not want to be accused in any way of interfering with the electoral process by holding meetings throughout the North on the implications of Brexit for the Northern economy and North-South relations. That is a valid concern. There was an intention to hold a meeting in Newry, as the Deputy noted, but it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: However, the Deputy's party in Northern Ireland will presumably have to be in a position to work with whatever the people of the North decide in the election.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I hope it will be possible to put together an Executive out of the Assembly elections whose leaders will come together in the way former First Minister and deputy First Minister, Ms Foster and Mr. McGuinness, did, after some difficulties, at least to point in the same direction and have a certain set of objectives for Northern Ireland. We do not have any of that now. I hope the Deputy can...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: To answer Deputy Martin's question first, I will set all of that out in a speech I intend to make next Wednesday. Deputy Boyd Barrett said he wished to raise three points but only raised one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is the best person to outdo anybody else in here when he gets the chance. I remind him that the agreement between the Irish Government and the British Government is that there be no return to a hard Border or the borders of the past, however one wants to put it. That is an agreed position between the two Governments. Now it is about making it happen. All of this is an outcome...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I do not disagree that these scans should be available. Clearly, in every hospital in every location the provision of scans and equipment is part of the process and strategy for the provision of proper facilities for pregnant mothers or other sectors who are involved in hospital treatment. I recall the case referred to by the Deputy and obviously that mother was, and is, very upset. It is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is not a question on legislation, but I am not sure whether the business plan was turned down because of shortage of money or because of its inadequacy. I remind Deputy Troy that €900 million extra was made available to the health budget for 2017, which now stands at €14.5 billion. This is an important element but it is a small sum in that context. I do not know the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. The all-island civic dialogue plenary meeting, which I hosted on 2 November, was an important element in the Government's preparations to meet the broad range of challenges posed by Brexit. To strengthen our engagement further the Government launched a series of sectoral all-island dialogue events. Led by Ministers, these...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I will bring a memo to Government about the implications of Brexit, which will go beyond the specific issue raised by Deputy Howlin. We need to look at where our country is headed for the next five, ten and 20 years. That has implications in terms of Cabinet review of capital expenditure. There are the implications of the public consultation under way by the Minister for Housing, Planning,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Mr. Barnier's task force is very active. It is very well aware that one of the four priorities mentioned by him is specifically to deal with Northern Ireland and the implications of the current Border situation. I have made this perfectly clear to the British Government. Ireland is not going back to a situation where we have customs posts etc. on the hard Border. I have made the point...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Yes. We have an Irish person on that. They are all public servants-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I forget the name, but I will forward it to the Deputy. The Barnier task force does not make decisions, it makes recommendations, and oversight politically is with the European Council.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Minister is attending a Brexit meeting in respect of the agricultural sector. I will bring Deputy Kenny's comments in respect of the existing legislation and whether it is necessary to consider amending it to the Minister's attention.