Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A system applied for donkey's years in the country whereby those on the live register were seen as a list of disillusioned disappointed people who had nothing to offer other than to draw on the taxes of others who paid for them. That has changed now. The new Intreo offices introduced by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, bring about a situation whereby these people are spoken to, their ambitions are talked about and they are motivated and given the incentive and opportunity to have a job. If Deputy Boyd Barrett's philosophy on poverty and inequality is to leave people where they were, that is, on the live register, then I profoundly disagree with him in that sense.

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