Results 20,041-20,060 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----I do not speak for them. I commend all those who did abide by the agreement. I listened to the news this morning and heard the names mentioned. This Government has made decisions for the future in respect of all politicians, including the abolition of severance pay and the reduction in salaries, which will impact on pensions. Sinn Féin only wants to pick out issues which it...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: We had some questions on this issue yesterday. In the three years prior to the election of this Government to office 250,000 jobs were lost in the private sector in this country, which directly affected many of the people of whom Deputy Boyd Barrett speaks.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is the challenge of Government to rectify the problems it inherited in this regard, to rectify our public finances-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to change the structure of how we do business, to grow our economy and to create jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This cannot be done unless there is trust and an understanding that this country will do as it says it will. At long last, there are signs of confidence in this country, including investor confidence, and our international reputation has been restored. We are moving in the right direction.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I sympathise with every family in this country who has lost a family member through suicide. I have visited the homes of many such people and have heard them voice the unspeakable questions of whether they should have noticed something, asked a particular question or done something. Deputy Boyd Barrett made the point in his normal charge that this is the result of continuing austerity by...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps Deputy McGrath would be quiet for once while we discuss this serious matter.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The budget for the National Office for Suicide Prevention has increased from €4.1 million to €8.1 million.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's colleague spoke about austerity and cuts in this area. Everybody understands the enormous amount of work that is being done to attempt to prevent this phenomenon from continuing at its current rate.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: From that point of view the report by the Men's Health Forum in Ireland, published today by the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will indicate unfortunately that the suicide rate in Ireland is one of the highest in Europe for young males between 20 and 24 years of age and females aged between 50 and 54. The latest data show 552 people committed suicide in Ireland in 2009, the year for which...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Well may Deputy Martin sneer, laugh and be cynical-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but he left behind a legacy that no other Government in the history of the State had to face and with which we are dealing.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is why there was no increase in income tax for anybody in the country, because we believe a tax on jobs is an imposition.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies had their chance. I do not believe in having any discrimination among the citizens in the country. The Deputy fails to understand that it was assumed the veneer of invincibility of previous Governments in recent years could keep paying the rates at which money was being doled out.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: We must now deal with the challenge. We will never get the country right unless we deal with our public finances and the deficit. We can only deal with it ourselves. Deputy Boyd Barrett seems to think one can continue to pay exceptional salaries on fantasy money.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I believe many of those young people would be more than willing-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to build on their graduate experience and work in Irish hospitals as Irish nurses on salaries that are equivalent to starting salaries in the accountancy sector or the teaching sector.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are not as high as salaries were in the past but they are job opportunities for the future. For the information of Deputies, in 2012 of the €12 million allocated for suicide prevention €7.1 million went to the National Office for Suicide Prevention and the remaining €5 million was used regionally to fund resource officers for suicide prevention, self harm liaison...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----are coming right and there are job opportunities. The Deputy should have listened to the national media in the past three days as even they were surprised at the positive news of investment and job creation in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is where the hope lies for the future but the Deputy does not want to believe it-----