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Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----rather than do what other countries do, which is to ratify it and state that they have ratified it but to have no legislation to back it up.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I will ask the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, to deal with the question.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I had a briefing recently with the Garda Commissioner and the national security group. These matters are constantly monitored. It is not information that should be given out publicly. Let me assure the Deputy that the Garda is vigilant in this matter. The Deputy will note the action taken in the past few days to deal with claims of activities of certain people. He will also be aware that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I will have a look at that. Malignant melanoma is a horrible ailment when it strikes people. The point Deputy Martin makes is one that will be considered. I will come back to him on that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: A great deal of activity is going on all the time on this. I do not have the detailed information that Deputy Adams has requested before me in respect of the particular Act, but I will respond to him.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: That is not for me to direct, as Deputy Howlin is well aware. There are opportunities for Deputies in the House to table questions. If they are approved by the Ceann Comhairle, then that can happen. The Tánaiste does not have all the details. The Tánaiste referred the report that she got to the Policing Authority. The report from Mr. Barrett is now before the Committee of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has no difficulty in answering questions, but she cannot give the Deputy the outcome of the report of the Committee of Public Accounts.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is not for me to direct any Minister to come to the House on any day. Deputy Howlin has the right, as a Deputy, to put a question before the House or to the Ceann Comhairle in this regard, as he is well aware given his long years of experience.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's banking crisis killed it.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: We are going to work harder and are working very hard. Another Private Members' Bill was introduced by Deputy Pringle, seeking to amend the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014. It seeks to instruct the NTMA to divest the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund from its fossil fuel assets within five years of the Act's commencement. The Bill's intention is that this timeline...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is fine for Deputy Ryan to come in and tell me to do all of these things. We have opened a European Investment Bank office in Dublin for major projects. Maybe the Deputy has forgotten the time he was in government. It is not as easy as he thinks to put in his interconnector-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----to put up his wind farms and solar panels, or put in his greenways.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: These are all wonderful aspirations but if the Deputy visited the communities he would find a very different reaction from his nice perception of people saying we will all be energy and fuel efficient and we will all have emissions control and we will have a lovely country.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It took 16 years to bring the gas pipeline in from the Corrib field and there were legitimate reasons for that as it went through one court case after another. The gas is now flowing. I support the Deputy in so many ways. We have to become more understanding of what climate change and climate action actually mean. It is the overriding requirement not just for Ireland but for the...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Eamon Ryan has been talking about change recently. He stated that he wants to become quite promiscuous - from a party point of view of course - and that he is quite prepared to jump into bed with any other political party in order to be back in government. The Deputy was in government and he had some very good ideas, many of which were not followed through.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: I share Deputy Eamon Ryan's enthusiasm for dealing with climate change and where we stand in that respect. Ireland's profile is the same as that of New Zealand and it is very different from most other countries. Ireland is the most carbon-efficient producer of milk in the world and the fifth most efficient producer of beef in Europe. If milk quotas go and Ireland is in a position to double...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----then there is an issue in respect of being able to protect our farmers and deal with natural emissions of methane gas. The Deputy will be aware that climate change is one of the key environmental issues globally, not just in Ireland. In the context of the scale of transformation, there is a real challenge for the State to meet its targets between 2020 and 2030. It is not a case of...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: This case has been raised by many Deputies. The Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Act 2015 was targeted at burglars with previous convictions and who are charged with multiple residential break-ins. That Act requires that the courts provide for consecutive jail sentences when a burglar is being sentenced for multiple offences. It also allows courts to refuse bail to offenders who...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: The attack on Jimmy Campion at the age of 94 in Roscrea, County Tipperary and his wife, Maura, who is aged 87, was an attack of cowardice and wanton brutality. I do not know who the people who broke into that house are, the condition they were in or the state of their minds, but to do that to an elderly person is unforgivable in so many ways. Unfortunately, it is not the first time it has...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: It seems that Deputy Adams wants to continually tick boxes and ask for another head on another plate. Does he not think that it is appropriate that the most influential committee of this House, the Committee of Public Accounts, be allowed to do its job? On occasions in the past, people associated with the Deputy's party have been the subject of television programmes on a variety of issues,...