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Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: The various elements of legislation to which I have referred are being prepared and will have to be implemented by 1 July. If the ballot is favourable the legislation will implement the proposals that the LRC has already negotiated and agreed. If the measures are not passed in the ballot the Government will have to consider the measures that it needs to take to meet the expenditure targets...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I want to award Deputy Martin first prize for the hindsight statement of the century - "you cannot trust the banks". Well done, Deputy Martin.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin says we cannot trust the banks.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I want to put an end to the phantom debate-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: ----- the Deputy has been trying to engineer here about guidelines imposing mandatory conditions upon people being required to give up their job.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Let us put an end to that debate now. It does not apply. It will not apply and it cannot apply in any circumstance.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This Government understands exactly the scale of the balance and the challenge that hundreds of thousands of people face every day. The vast majority in the House here have gone through that in their own way, and we understand the difficulties so many, in particular women, have in balancing budgets to run households, pay their bills and meet their requirements. That debate is a phantom...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am telling him now-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and the people of the country, and the women of the country, the position is that no guidelines, published or unpublished-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----will require as a condition that somebody give up a job. If those in mortgage distress in dealing with their lender are unable to work out a position or a resolution to their particular problem - we hope it could be worked out - and if they decide to go the personal insolvency agency, it is at that point that the practitioners will sit down with the person or persons involved and work...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Of course, there is recourse afterwards to the courts if they wish to do that. Let us put an end to any assertion-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----allegation or perception that somebody is going to be forced or required to give up a job in respect of a resolution.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This Government is focused on getting people back to work.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Why in heaven's name would we be supportive of some phantom debate that says that people are going to be forced to give up employment? Nothing could be further from the truth. I want to put an end to that now and finish it.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am very conscious of the difficulties some people have in this regard. This is a particularly cold spell which is causing hardship on a number of fronts. The Government considered this yesterday and the Minister for Social Protection has announced that the scheme will be extended for a week-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and obviously the position will be kept under review.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes, a week.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: It will affect 410,000 people and, clearly, the position in so far as the weather is concerned will be kept under review.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is causing particular hardship for people in various locations in the country. The people in the North of Ireland in particular are suffering very badly at the moment. Deputy Adams will note the Government's offer of assistance in respect of the agri-sector in the North.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I understand the free fuel payment in Northern Ireland for the entire winter is sterling £110. Perhaps the Deputy might use his influence up there to get that extended because it is infinitely a poorer position than applies here.