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Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----and who cost the taxpayer €20 million to €25 million in Garda overtime costs, one of whom died in the middle of all this. I do not accept the Deputy's argument that all of this trouble is caused by people from the locality. I have been in many of their houses, and I went there recently to look at the standards employed and to speak to Irish engineers and environmental...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputies Daly and Halligan do not want to see the product of the Corrib field coming ashore.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Clare Daly should note I will welcome very much the day on which Corrib gas flows through to the terminal in Bellanaboy.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: It has provided an economic lift and injection-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----that in many ways has shielded that locality from the recession which has affected the rest of the country. On many occasions, up to 2,000 men were working around the clock in providing a terminal.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Daly and her fellow Deputies have never referred to how people have built their houses and paid off their mortgages or to the upskilling and training for young people not just to work on that plant, but on so many others. The benefits of this will be seen when the gas actually flows-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will welcome the day on which it will flow because from my own experience, I can testify to the quality of the work that has gone in there, the standards that apply and the lessons that have been learned. Lessons have been learned, not least of which was-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: ------that people from outside my own county travelled very long distances from outside the country-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----to give vent to their professional protester hysterical screeches on the road outside Rossport.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive, together. On 7 February, accompanied by the Tánaiste, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, the Minister for Social Protection and the Minister for Education and Skills, I undertook a working visit to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: What was the Deputy's initial question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy remarked that I had not made a comment about something.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance has been active on this matter. It is clearly an issue and I expect it will be discussed next week at the European Council. I expect that Mr. Draghi will be in attendance at some stage during the course of that two-day meeting and that he will deal in some detail with the threat as he has outlined it. Deputy Martin is well aware of the importance of the corporate...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: We will not rest on our laurels and for that reason we have targeted incentives to meet emerging skills needs. Some 1,500 ICT skills conversion places have been provided to date. Furthermore, 63% of demand for high level IT professional is being met from the higher education system through the implementation of the ICT skills action plan. In 2011, the corresponding figure was 45% and we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: The discussions were not about the 12.5% corporation tax rate in place here as corporation tax is a matter for individual countries. The rate we have set has been a cornerstone of our policy for a very long time. I agree with Deputies Adams and Martin that the question of reputational damage is an issue. It arises from some of the comments made following the United States Senate hearings...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Higgins for his comments. I also thank him as I understand that he is going to be a member of the Oireachtas committee dealing with the banking inquiry. That will bring colour, influence and power to that committee. I wish him the very best with it, in his independence with the other members.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: We have no problem on that. The question of youth employment was discussed at the meeting with OECD personnel. The details of this have been considered at length by the Minister for Education and Skills and the Minister for Social Protection. The OECD was critical of the Government regarding the lack of action concerning labour activation measures, as they call them. The EU and the IMF...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is talking about different things. The Irish Financial Services Centre is a place with multinationals which employ significant numbers of people here. The allegation is always that a multinational based in Ireland, where people are employed, is not paying its fair share of tax. I do not doubt Professor Stewart's credentials at all and I will read his contribution with some...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: If multinational workers assemble a product in Ireland but components come from a different country, the workers pay income tax. If the product is sold in Italy, would the VAT be paid in Italy and where would the intellectual property be vested? How would the corporate rate apply in respect of that intellectual property? It may well be vested in the United States or some other country.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Enda Kenny: We will no doubt have another opportunity to discuss these issues. That is why Ireland wants to participate with the OECD in terms of the 15 sectors involved in bringing about an international response to this particular phenomenon. The Commission is dealing with a technicality in respect of a specific company. It is also taking in issues in Luxembourg and the Netherlands. We will defend...