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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: ...beyond, where necessary. Deputy Mícheál Martin referred to the slaughter of innocent victims. While all cases are tragic, one of the differences is that suicide bombers want to be blown up. The Provisional IRA did not want that to happen. It caused the same destruction and no warnings were given and people suffered tragic consequences. The preparations for a serious...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)

Enda Kenny: ...a conversation and express the hope that he will recover his full health. I have always recognised that Martin McGuinness has come on a long journey from being a member of the army council of the IRA to someone who became a pragmatist and who has held out on many occasions to drive the peace process and the institutions forward. It is our co-responsibility to ensure that all of that is...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...honour in his role as a prison officer. The work he and his colleagues did in protecting this State was vital during that very troubled period. His cold-blooded murder at the hands of Provisional IRA thugs was a cowardly, brutal and totally unjustifiable act of pointless violence. It should be properly condemned by everybody. If Deputy Martin or I were in a situation where an...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: ..., as I understand it. He says he got the names from Austin Stack, son of Brian Stack, who was murdered. Austin Stack says he never gave him the names. Deputy Adams needs to explain that. The IRA admitted the murder 30 years later. We have had questions in the House before about associations with membership of the IRA and about safe houses on this side of the Border which were, in...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...of the contradictory statements that have been made here. It is correct to say that Brian Stack was murdered in cold blood outside a boxing stadium in south Dublin, which was admitted by the IRA in 2013. Austin Stack says he gave no names to Deputy Adams, the President of the Sinn Féin party. Deputy Adams is not here today and I am not sure whether he has advised his deputy leader...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...effect on the Northern institutions. The findings of the UK's assessment of paramilitary groups by an independent panel were very unsettling. Particularly disturbing was the finding that Provisional IRA members believed that the Provisional Army Council oversees both Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin with an overarching strategy. When Prime Minister Cameron and I convened the latest...

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...in the Northern Ireland Executive. I made the Government's position clear when I spoke at the British-Irish Association in Cambridge in September and reiterate that, 21 years after the IRA ceasefire and ten years after decommissioning and the IRA announcement of cessation of paramilitary activity, it is past time that it should carry any capacity for threat. Statements to the effect...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...things have to happen. There are questions arising from the Northern report, which states that based on intelligence the provisional army council is deemed to be overseeing both the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin. This is based on reports from Provisional IRA members. It is an issue that needs to be addressed by the Sinn Féin president.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. I remind him of what I said at Cambridge some time ago about this matter that 21 years after the IRA ceasefire, it is past time that it should have any capacity for any threat.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: Statements to the effect that the IRA has gone away or left the stage are simply not credible. The reports speak for themselves. I spoke with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, last evening about this. The return of the DUP and First Minister Robinson to the talks currently under way and including the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party is a positive sign, given the two reports from...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...this society and democracy and on this island. The Garda Commissioner has pointed out that there will be no truck with this kind of carry-on from the remnants or divergent groups of the Provisional IRA, which has poisoned so many people in society over the past 35 or 40 years. I accept that the Deputy's question is valid, given that operations are currently ongoing with the two task...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: ..., then I would not be opposed to it, but what we do need to say very clearly is that the rule of law has to apply, and what has happened, as Deputy Martin well knows, is that the legacy of the Provisional IRA has poisoned society in many cases along the Border.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...differences. Everybody can understand that. We need to complete that process. I made the Government's position very clear when I spoke in Cambridge some time ago on the matter; 21 years after the IRA's ceasefire, it should no longer carry any capacity for threat. Statements to the effect that the IRA has gone away or left the stage are simply not credible. There may have been a time...

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...Government on that appalling atrocity. Last month ongoing work by the Independent Commission on the Location of Victims' Remains to find the bodies of the disappeared - those murdered and buried secretly by the IRA - resulted in the finding of human remains in County Meath, finally giving some form of closure to the families of those killed. Earlier today we convened together in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...might find themselves on a lonely road or whatever. That is not acceptable in any circumstances, no matter what organisation those people were members of - the republican movement, the provisional IRA, or any party. I do not have a difficulty saying to the British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, or the North-South Ministerial Council what else we in this jurisdiction and in Northern...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will tell the Deputy what he should do. He is the leader and president of his party. The Deputy First Minister is an admitted former member of the IRA. The Deputy and he could issue very straight statements to followers of their party or people who they know were members of the provisional IRA about these matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: .... To have a process mixed up in the middle of that at the moment is not the way I think this should happen. I know the Deputy First Minister himself admitted in public he was a member of the IRA. The names that are mentioned here are well known to them. I do not know whether Deputy Adams has spoken to the person who is named as a public representative. If there is information that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...to the Garda and a criminal investigation was launched. That investigation is ongoing. My understanding is that the person involved said that he had been abused by a member of the Provisional IRA who stayed at his family home, which was then deemed to be a safe house. He said his life was threatened by the abuser. I understand he has also alleged that his brother was abused, but he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...arise in the context of allegations of the rape and sexual abuse of a young woman in Northern Ireland and her subsequent mistreatment at the hands of members of Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA. I have had the opportunity and the privilege of meeting with Ms Cahill, and she is a woman of tremendous bravery and courage. Clearly, the issues raised are of a very serious nature,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Enda Kenny: ...of the "Why?" of the European Union. I agree with the Deputy. To equate what happened in Paris with the Islamic faith or the Muslim religion is the same as blaming Rome for the atrocities of the IRA or the Church of England for loyalist atrocities. The Islamic faith is one of compassion and peace. What more evidence can we obtain of terrorism than when a policeman - a Muslim - is shot...