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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Instead, they speak about austerity and cutbacks and the fact that there is no hope. Has either Deputy ever given a constructive suggestion other than to crucify those who earn higher salaries?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: They simply suggest that by some magic formula the country will function. I would like to hear the Deputies engage with young people aged between 22 and 25 and give them their views on opportunities for them. What are those opportunities? As far as the Government is concerned, we want to engage with those people, look at where their talent or flair lies and where their contribution can be-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and provide the opportunity for them to follow their dreams and to better themselves. The vast majority of those people want to work, want to contribute and want to be doing things.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: They want to make a difference, but all I ever hear from the two Deputies opposite is that we should keep the dole queues the way they are and let them wallow in disillusionment and uncertainty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned, we need to break out of that field, get inside the minds of those young people, find out what they want to do and see if we can help them, through employers or State agencies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Five hundred million euro was provided in this budget to assist small businesses in making progress in that regard. I do not accept the same old assertions from Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett. We have listened to the gramophone record until it is played out. They never have any constructive suggestion of any description. I invite them to demonstrate where 100, 50 or even ten jobs...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It met three times.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I heard the Deputy on about the Tories the other day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I disagree with the Deputy. The situation left for the Government to deal with was like climbing the Cliffs of Moher in the dark. We hope on 15 December to exit the bailout programme, but we still have many challenges ahead. In my earlier reply I stated the health committee had met three times to deal with the confusion that had arisen from the centralising of the assessment system for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy never listened to anyone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: The health committee met three times to deal with health issues and actually called in the HSE to ask it about the position on dealing with the exceptional cases of refusals of medical cards and appliances as highlighted on television and radio and in the newspapers. It asked how it would sort out a system that would work effectively and in a caring way for those who needed medical cards. ...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams raised the question of a poverty impact report. I will ask the Minister for Social Protection to carry out such an exercise. We will publish it in due course and debate it here. In the last year there has been an increase of 33,800 in the number of people in employment and of 20,000 in the number of people in full-time employment. Many of those people are on social protection...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: This issue must have the relentless focus of the Government for 2014. We will have the local and European elections in 2014, but there is no referendum planned for 2014. I would like to see every Department and agency focus on employment opportunities for 2014. For many years, the people who occupied these benches operated in a kind of individual tunnel and there was no collective focus of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would like to think the Deputy would come in here some day and say he had three proposals to put forward that would impact on employment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Has the Deputy ever suggested that the reconstruction of houses would be good so as to get tradespeople back working or asked what incentives would encourage that? The Government has done that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would like to think the Deputy might come up with an initiative like the living city initiative, for places like Dún Laoghaire with older houses in need of reconstruction, that would provide employment. The Deputy makes a point that is a red herring about us wanting to keep people on the dole and I understand him doing that. When Fine Gael had its annual think-in, I was speaking to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: Genuine assistance is offered to them to help them get to the next step or level. This is being done completely differently from how it was done before. We recognise that everybody has a contribution to make and that many of these young people have a talent or flair in a particular area. Some of them have considerable experience, but have lost out. It is a case of providing motivation and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4, 5 and 6 together. The Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy last met on 5 November 2012. At this meeting, the Cabinet committee considered an extensive work programme that has been under way during 2013 and which included work on preparing the climate action and low carbon development Bill; preparation of national and sectoral...