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- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would like to clarify the position for the benefit of the people. As a result of the situation that has arisen which was inflicted on every household in the country owing to incompetence in the past-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----people in mortgage distress must sit down with their lender - individually in the first instance. They may also decide to go to the personal insolvency agency to discuss their circumstances with an insolvency practitioner. However, the guidelines referred to by Deputy Micheál Martin have not yet been published. I want to make it clear to every man and woman in the county but...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to make it perfectly clear that the guidelines will not impose conditions on anybody. No woman or man will be forced to give up his or her job, irrespective of the reality of his or her current income position, as distinct from the child care costs involved. I know young people, women in particular, including teachers and nurses, who are not earning as much as their current child...
- 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.