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Thu 06 Jun 2004Tánaiste finds questions agreeableDail Sketch/Frank McNally: As every good barrister learns, you should never ask a question in court to which you don't already know the answer. This is equally true of Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, where requests for information are the traditional overture to displays of moral outrage.Enda Kenny broke the rule yesterday when he devoted his Leaders' Questions slot to the imminent (or so he thought) closure of a charity headquarters in Dublin. Surely a caring Government could find the money needed to save it, he suggested.