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Northern Ireland Issues. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I join the Taoiseach in paying tribute to the efforts of John Hume over three decades in Northern Ireland politics. As an MP and MEP, John Hume strode across the political landscape in Northern Ireland like a colossus and used his considerable influence to enormous beneficial effect. I trust that his experience, gained over many dark days and years, will not be lost to the political process...

Northern Ireland Issues. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: The DUP put forward three models — voluntary, mandatory and corporate assembly. Two of these have been rejected by Sinn Féin. Did the Taoiseach have any discussions in respect of those models with the DUP? Taking into account that the DUP is now facing into reality, following the electoral mandate it received in the Assembly elections, does the Taoiseach agree that the situation now puts...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his introduction. I remind him of the precedent of 10 June 1987 when the then Taoiseach proposed on the Order of Business that the Standing Order be set aside for a discussion on a matter that was before the courts. I will abide by the Ceann Comhairle's ruling. Everyone in the House and throughout the country is acutely aware of the damage being done to public...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has not answered the two questions I asked him. Will he explain the criteria he applied in re-admitting Deputy Cooper-Flynn to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party? The Deputy is being singled out for exceptional media treatment for her work as a financial adviser at that time. Am I to take it that the Taoiseach's re-admission of the Deputy to the party was on the basis of an...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Was there an offer to pay back the £50,000?

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I remind the Taoiseach these latest allegations and revelations were made through the media, not the political process. The late Mr. Justice Hamilton remarked if the truth had been provided in reply to more questions in this House, there would be less need for tribunals of inquiry. I find it strange that the Taoiseach never saw the request from the tribunal to the Government secretariat,...

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Ahern is the leader of Fianna Fáil and he is the Taoiseach pro tem. We are addressing much more than the current allegations in the newspapers. We are dealing with how the Government is sacrificing two fundamentals of democracy — public trust and citizen participation — to advance its own political agenda and to achieve its own political ambition. We are addressing how the...

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Is it not the case that, true to form, the Taoiseach sold his country out when he took my colleague, Deputy Cooper-Flynn, back into the Fianna Fáil fold, with allegations against her outstanding, to shore up his own political ambitions? Is it not the case that, true to form, in doing so, he put Fianna Fáil's private, party political interest ahead of the national interest, which is the...

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: They say that politicians talk a lot but say nothing. I am saying something. If people are to have faith in politicians in public life, there must be real accountability and truth on the part of the Government, not mere verbiage uttered by the Taoiseach. We are not canon lawyers parsing phrases, analysing words or debating about angels dancing on pinheads. We are supposed to be legislators...

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: ——series of actions and blame everybody for being the same. I have news for the Taoiseach. We are not all the same and we look at politics, truth and ethics in a different light from him and his junior partner.

Mahon Tribunal: Statements. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Why did the Taoiseach use the phrase "no delay has arisen" if he wanted to assert that he co-operated fully with the tribunal at all times? What was in the letter seen by the Taoiseach today, the letter sent to the Government secretariat? Did it remind the latter of the Taoiseach's previous undertaking to the House? What documents did the Taoiseach omit which the tribunal had to pursue...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I will leave it because it is irrelevant now.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: With regard to an Coimisinéir Teanga, is this a Civil Service Commission or a ministerial appointment?

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended as follows: (a) by the deletion of Standing Order 26A; and (b) by the adoption of the following in substitution for Standing Order 26: '26. (1) Every sitting of the Dáil shall be governed by a printed Order Paper, which shall be prepared under the...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: The effect of the motion, if accepted, would be that the Taoiseach would attend on each sitting day but in reality would be here on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to deal with matters of a topical nature arising on the Order of Business; that the Labour Party would retain its position as the second party in Opposition in respect of Leaders' Questions because it is a defined and growing...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: I was actually.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Many people got very frightened when he announced it. In her capacity as Chief Whip, the Minister of State has witnessed the guillotining of Bills, the ramming through of legislation and instances such as the rushing through of the Immigration Bill last week to cover up for the embarrassment caused by legislation being flawed because it was rushed through in the first place and insufficient...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Will I write that down?

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: Thank God for that.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Enda Kenny: It has always been the tradition on this side of the House when in Opposition to pair the Taoiseach on Government business. That will always continue, but the motion is that he should be here on Thursdays.