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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and provide the opportunity for them to follow their dreams and to better themselves. The vast majority of those people want to work, want to contribute and want to be doing things.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: They want to make a difference, but all I ever hear from the two Deputies opposite is that we should keep the dole queues the way they are and let them wallow in disillusionment and uncertainty.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned, we need to break out of that field, get inside the minds of those young people, find out what they want to do and see if we can help them, through employers or State agencies.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Five hundred million euro was provided in this budget to assist small businesses in making progress in that regard. I do not accept the same old assertions from Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett. We have listened to the gramophone record until it is played out. They never have any constructive suggestion of any description. I invite them to demonstrate where 100, 50 or even ten jobs...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 and 3 together. The Cabinet committee on social policy has met on two occasions since the Dáil summer recess, on 22 July and, most recently, on 30 September.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet committee on social policy met on six occasions this year, namely 11 February, 12 February, 15 April, 24 June, 22 July and 30 September. It is due to meet again on 25 November, this month. The Deputy may well ask the role of the Cabinet committee on social policy. It provides a basis for cross-departmental co-ordination in the areas of social inclusion, poverty reduction and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I cannot answer that for the Deputy now but will revert to the Deputy on when it is expected to be available for publication. Committee priorities concluded advancing the work on publishing the strategy dealing with dementia, which is so important. It continued to advance legislation for the Child and Family Support Agency, which will take over the responsibilities from the HSE on 1...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The budget will stand. I was in the University of Limerick recently where the Bernal project - J. D. Bernal was a world famous engineer from Nenagh many years ago - is under way. It is funded in part by Atlantic Philanthropies. The intention is to bring in ten world class researchers - five of whom are in situ. The project will have a significant output. I have been in UCD, Trinity...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have chaired 14 Cabinet committee meetings since the Dáil summer recess. The Cabinet committees on Health and Mortgage Arrears and Credit Availability have met three times. The Cabinet committees on Social Policy and Economic Recovery & Jobs have met twice and the Cabinet Committees on Irish and the Gaeltacht, Economic Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and European...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Eleven.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am sorry. No. I am taking Question No. 1. This is a problem for everyone. I am responding to Question No. 1 because people say one should break up the questions. I note that Questions Nos. 2 to 12 are all related to Question No. 1 because they are about individual Cabinet sub-committees. Deputies may take it whatever way they want.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am answering just Question No. 1.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: It met 11 times since the summer recess.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet Committee on Health and the Cabinet Committee on Mortgage Arrears and Credit Availability met three times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I saw Deputy Boyd Barrett's posters in Dún Laoghaire the other day when I walked the pier.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I might.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I might tell Deputy Boyd Barrett something.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: When I was elected as Taoiseach I examined the issue and I found that Cabinet sub-committees used to meet on an irregular basis perhaps once a quarter. Given the state of affairs in a number of areas I felt it was appropriate that we should devote one day in the month exclusively to Cabinet sub-committees. I do that on a Monday from 8.30 a.m. right through until 6 p.m. I find it is a very...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----is to notify the Revenue Commissioners of the option he or she is choosing to pay the tax in 2014. There are two dates involved. The first is relevant if a person decides to respond through the postal system. He or she must notify the Revenue Commissioners by 7 November of the option that suits best. If a person notifies the Revenue Commissioners online, the relevant date is 27...