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- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has moved to a point where he expresses his understanding of just how ignorant other people are. This is coming from a person who represented a Government which cut the blind pension and made 12 other cuts in social welfare payments without any discussion.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Deputy should reflect on his role in times past.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The position is that lone parents are not being targeted.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: They are being supported. The answer to transforming the opportunity for any family is-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to get away from social welfare dependence and into the world of work.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: What the Government is doing is introducing a range of opportunities for lone parents and others-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to be retrained and upskilled to achieve financial independence by getting a job that pays-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----either through the jobseeker's allowance transitional payment, the back-to-work family dividend or the re-rating of FIS.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: These are all designed to assist people to get away from social protection dependency and into the world of work.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It was always the case with Fianna Fáil every time it came to a budget that the people concerned were thrown a few more quid to buy them off.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: In this case, we need to transform what we are doing in getting people back into the world of work, including lone parents. Many of them have said to me that this is what they want to do.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: They want to be able to find a job.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy may well laugh at lone parents if he wants to, but many of them want to move from social protection dependency to financial independence by having an opportunity to go out to work.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reforms to the schemes are designed to help them to do this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: When we launched JobsPlus or the jobseeker's allowance, it was perfectly obvious that we had one of the highest rates of jobless households in Europe. That is one of the causes of the financial difficulties people get into.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reforms are designed to help lone parents-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to achieve financial independence by upskilling and following through to a job that pays and benefits their families.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I notice that the salaries of special advisers in Northern Ireland have increased from Stg£90,000 to Stg£110,000 and I did not hear the Deputy comment on this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform received claims for increases in salary from a number of Ministers and ruled on them based on experience and competence. Many of the claims were rejected at the levels sought and ruled on by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have dealt with the question on lone parents. The reforms are being introduced to move people from social protection dependency and give them the opportunity to achieve financial independence by getting a job that pays in their own interests and those of their families.