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Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: We do not deal in fantasy politics; we deal in reality. The Deputy, like his colleague beside him, should be talking to young people in Dún Laoghaire. Is he aware that this morning 800 jobs were announced for Dublin?

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps some young qualified people from that constituency might be chosen to give of their expertise and not listen to the litany of despair that I listen to from the Deputy and his colleague every single day.

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I reiterate, the opportunity is always there for social partners to make contact directly with individual Ministers even though we are not returning to the former process. No more than with Vita Cortex, if there is an issue with any other company, not only is the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, interested in the resolution of all such disputes but he makes his...

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: For that reason, in the intensive discussions it has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, the troika stated it would produce a technical paper on this issue which is of such importance to the deficit and to our capacity to repay our debts. I look forward with great interest to that paper being produced because...

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----having works that would have an impact on jobs and job creation. I point out to Deputy Martin that I do not wish to get involved in the process. The Cabinet sub-committee oversees this and allocates work to the different sectors which report back to the Cabinet. It is not by the number of meetings one can judge the value of this but by the work that is produced, where value for money...

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The decision was that we should move to projects that are ready to go-----

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----where jobs can be created and some element of the capital infrastructure in terms of the construction industry can be employed for useful gain, where people can see real benefit. That is where the focus is. We would like to think that by the end of the first year all these problems could be sorted out but that is not possible. The focus is very clear in this regard. The movement is in...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 12, statements on the proposed amendment to section 40 of the Copyright and Related Acts 2000 and No. 13, Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed that notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders the proceedings of No. 12 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 50 minutes, opening statements shall be...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Bluebeard.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is using peculiar phraseology today. I assume that by saying "consult with the people" he is talking about holding a referendum, but he did not say that. Deputy Martin's view yesterday and that of his party, which was espoused by Deputy Michael McGrath in a very constructive fashion, was that if a referendum was required in the context of changing the Constitution, it should...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The issues will begin to be discussed tomorrow in the House here, following the normal report that I will give to the House following yesterday's meeting. I expect that Deputy Hannigan, the Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs, will see that plenty of opportunity is given to Deputies from all sides of the House to have their say on the text as it is agreed in...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----did not get their passports or visas to get in here at all. I want Deputy Martin to understand that as far as I am concerned, we will be very straight with process here.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: This morning, I asked that the Cabinet refer this final text to the Attorney General for her formal, legal advice. The Government will follow through on that advice.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy may take it that the work of Government and the fiscal responsibility Bill, which the Minister for Finance is preparing, look at the impact of what is involved here, as will every Minister, not just for this year, but for the time ahead. It is a science on which we cannot give a definitive answer. We cannot say what the economic situation will be in five or ten years time.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is a great deal of work going on. However, most of it is reports about the consequence of the programme for Government and where we are headed in the future, how to restructure our public finances so that we can have an economy that can grow and how we can close the deficit of €16 billion.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: For Deputy Adams to get up here above everybody else and talk about meeting people, when he himself was buddy to some very shadowy creatures over the last 30 years------

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: At least the French President is elected democratically by his people. Everybody who attends that meeting is entitled to give good wishes to everyone they meet, because we have to work together in the interests of Europe. The French President yesterday was central to an issue that was causing concern at the meeting and which was resolved with a satisfactory compromise. The Deputy comes in...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: When I am asked in Armagh to apologise on behalf of this State for people who were murdered in Northern Ireland by people who crossed the Border and were deemed to be in safe houses, I have to say that the organisation involved was the enemy of this State because they murdered gardaí, Army personnel and innocent civilians.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the "buddy buddies" of that group who Deputy Adams knows and with whom he associated, the truth will come out some time.