Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

They say to me that they are in limbo and they cannot finish their apprenticeships and ask what they are to do. One talks to people who are cash-starved in business and despite all the hype about credit flowing through from banks to business it is not happening. I can outline myriad stories, as I am quite sure every Deputy can, of people who have been in business for up to 50 years who cannot even get an overdraft of €3,000 on their facilities. Day after day and hour after hour, silently and by stealth, jobs continue to be lost. There is no faith, trust or confidence in the Government to deal with it. This means that we must deal with the way the Government is run, the cost of governance and the way our governance systems have operated. We need radical change and a radical overhaul to the way it is done. This means ending the cronyism and the acquaintanceships which went through to appointments on State boards and following through on the Bill produced by Deputy Varadkar which would lead to an input from Oireachtas committees in examining people's credentials and what they have to offer.

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