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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is not the case that anything is wrong. There are four working groups. The IFSC banking and treasury working group is concerned with banking, asset finance and corporate treasury, together with taxation issues which arise for all areas of the international financial services industry in Ireland. The IFSC funds working group considers the administration and management of investment funds...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----in comparison to that of users of other disability services - for example, a person who is blind or has sight difficulties who says he or she cannot afford to get a bigger computer keyboard, for example. In some cases, people are required to pay the full charge, which could be for small amounts. We must examine how to treats all propositions fairly. Deputy Adams can raise his issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams made the point about corporations or the financial services sector making representations. There are 33,000 people working in the IFSC.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Exactly.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I was about to come to that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: That is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin made an important point. Deputy Adams was flown across the Atlantic.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am glad Deputy Adams is in good form. A total of 330 submissions have been received on the budget. We have to put all the pieces of the jigsaw together and put together the best, fairest and most equitable budget according to whatever flexibility exists to channel it where opportunities and jobs can be created. I assure Deputy Adams that there is nothing inherently wrong in the system....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not share the Deputy's view. The very fact that he can be elected to this House properly by the people and stand up here speaks for itself. That is the democratic wish of the people in his constituency and he is sent in here to represent them and articulate his views which, I assume, they vote for. That is not a perversion of democracy but the result of the people's vote. Therefore,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Correct. The Deputy's memory is good; he does not suffer from amnesia. Deputy Adams said that some propositions carry more weight than others. I was trying to deal with his point on whether a proposition for the Department of Finance submitted by a person who suffers from difficulties with sight receives the same consideration as the proposition of the leader of a party who wants to raise...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I ask the Deputy to explain that point.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: These are the reflections of Government, Deputy Higgins. I think, in the context of the serious issue of symphysiotomy, that if the Government is prepared to listen, one does not need monthly meetings. I am far more interested in outcomes and action than in having monthly meetings about such issues. In fairness, a number of Deputies here raised the question of the Magdalen laundries and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: That would be a good speech on the back of a lorry in Mulranny.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Thank you, Deputy Mathews. I realise it is in Dáil Éireann. Where was the clearing house for the 300,000 people taken out in terms of being liable for the universal social charge, USC? Was it the financial services sector? Where was the clearing house that dealt with the Magdalen laundry women? Was it the financial services sector?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Where was the clearing house for those who said we could not have more income tax increases? The fact is the Government listens to the people to balance the situation where jobs can be created, while the most vulnerable get the opportunity, in so far as is humanly possible, to have comforts and services provided for them by the State. I do not accept the Deputy’s assertion that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I hear the very people with difficulties every day and week, as I receive e-mails and letters from them. I hope in some small way that I can act, as the Deputy calls it, as a clearing house for some of them. The Government, across its spectrum, represents an attempt to look after those who are vulnerable, who should have a clearing house to see to it that their old age pensions are not cut,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Would the Deputy not welcome this? I met some of his supporters in Killiney the other night, but I could not understand what they were saying. I understand they were operating on his instructions. They were a sort of clearing house group under the trees.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett seems to be under the assumption that only financial corporate giants have the opportunity to engage with the Government. It is far from that. They have to deal with the full spectrum of society. I make no apology where 30,000 people are employed - men and women, some of whom are from the Deputy’s constituency - that they should have the opportunity to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will respond to Deputy Kevin Humphreys. I will see to it that the review is published and will return to him on the other items he mentioned. I have no problem in listening to the passion of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. I hope he listens in return.