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- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: For the young graduates Deputy McDonald and the chairperson of Labour Youth were talking about, those who are entrepreneurs can start their own businesses under the young entrepreneur scheme and avail of mentoring to start those businesses-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and they can get State assistance. If somebody in their mid-20s has been out of work for 15 months, he or she can now start a business and have up to €40,000 in tax-free income based on the two years prior to the setting up of those businesses. It is a case of providing the motivation and the opportunity for people to work. A case came in to me this morning of a married man...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This country has always beaten adversity by being practical about working our way out of it. This budget is about exiting the bailout caused by the people opposite. I recall the press conference when my predecessor as Taoiseach, Mr. Cowen, and the late lamented Mr. Brian Lenihan walked off the stage and were replaced by the troika-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and our sovereignty and our economic independence were handed away. This Government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party is focused on retrieving that economic sovereignty. Our young people will have the opportunity in a new country to have work, careers and opportunities.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is what this is about. We ring-fenced money and places so the young people of Wicklow, Dublin and the entire country will have those opportunities for their ambition, talent and creativity to flourish.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I regard the issue of human rights, as referred to, as the right to work and the right to have an opportunity to work. That is what good government should be about. The number on the live register was nearly 500,000 just a short time ago. Because of the reforms and the changes brought about, and because of the labour activation measures-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that has fallen consistently for 15 months and we expect it to go below 400,000 before the end of the year.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Many of those are young people. I regard every person as having the right to work. I agree with the Deputy that those who decide they do not want to work are in a different situation.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is true that in the Department of Social Protection different people have been treated differently over the years, from young people through the different categories that apply in society and right up to senior citizens. They are all treated in different ways depending on what category they find themselves in. I believe the changes that are made here are really in the interest of...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to see the new Intreo offices that are being rolled out by the Minister, Deputy Burton, where there are group interviews, where mentoring is available from small businesses and where there are people who will say, "I have an opportunity for you. If you do this education course you can be involved in retrofitting, since you worked in construction and you can change direction." This is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Why is it that, for years, there was never engagement with them? When they signed on they were left to sign on.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is different. These are our people. These are the future of our country. They all have a talent and an opportunity, and we want to let that flourish. That is what this is about. The day we exit this bailout will be a different day for Ireland. We will put the shutters up behind us and never let it happen again, like the legacy and the economic mess that fell down on our people-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----through incompetence, greed and everything else that applied in a culture we never want to go back to.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a7, motion re membership of committee; No. b7, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 14, Financial Resolutions 2014 from the Minister for Finance, resuming on Resolution No. 8. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. a7 and b7 shall be decided without debate; and the following arrangements shall apply in...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The position is that, as the budget resolutions went through yesterday, the HSE must now prepare its service plan within 21 days to give effect to the plans it will implement based on that budget. Obviously, that will come back to the Minister, and he must bring it to Cabinet to have it signed off. They can then get on with spending the moneys allocated.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of course.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: As the Tánaiste has confirmed in respect of the Magdalen women, there is no difficulty-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----other than the verification-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no difficulty other than verification and validation of the paperwork that has been submitted. Some of it is complex, but there is no problem. The Deputy's use of the non-existent word "logjam" is irrelevant in this.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm that this matter was on the agenda for the Cabinet yesterday, but because other matters had to be dealt with it was not taken. It will not be long.