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Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: One should not believe everything one reads in the Financial Times. That is the message. The ECB is completely independent of Governments. It has given €87 billion in emergency liquidity to Greece. Mr. Draghi said given its independence, because it is a eurozone, ELA has been continued on the assumption that negotiations would conclude and a deal can be done. That is why, as the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----the Netherlands or Germany. There is, therefore, a need to structure things in a way that will allow for the bailout and bail out programme to end positively. I hope the discussions that take place with the institutions and Government of Greece can have a positive outcome. The Prime Minister has been elected and has a mandate from his Government. Like all of these things, this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. I chaired three Cabinet committee meetings in April, five in May and one to date in June. Also, the Economic Management Council met six times in April, once in May and once to date in June.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It met six times in April, once in May and once in June, a total of eight times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy raised several issues. Dealing with Cabinet sub-committees in the normal structure of the Dáil week on a Tuesday and Wednesday, I found it became impossible to get anything done because of this kind of business, questions, other debates and all of that taking up time. Accordingly, I devote one Monday in the month to Cabinet sub-committee meetings from eight in the morning...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: In many cases those recommendations were not acceptable to this Government. If they were not, the Government was required to cost alternatives which would achieve the same growth objective. That is why one of the first decisions was to reverse the cut in the minimum wage that had been brought in by the previous Government. Despite economic constraints, there are now 420,000 people who do...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----5,000 young children presented their particular proposals at a gaming and science fair recently which was quite exceptional. I was at a firm in Sandyford recently and it was interesting to see two ends of the research and innovation spectrum. Some of the brightest students from universities all over the world were at the plant concerned speaking to and being mentored by Irish peers in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I addressed a conference in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre the other day, mostly driven by extraordinary women involved in the STEM area of mathematics, research and technology, pointing out the opportunities that exist here-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is all happening now and this is all for the future, as the Deputy is well aware. The Deputy has to make his case, but let me assure him this is one of the real focuses and priorities of the Government. As pointed out by Mr. Ferguson of Science Foundation Ireland, we do not have the money to invest in everything but we do have money to invest in research, innovation and development,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will recall that I read out for him the fact that 25 recommendations were made by the report and all of these were not implemented. The Deputy would certainly have a valid reason to say something very different if I said they had been implemented. I pointed out to the Deputy the recommendations where work was under way and it is the intention to implement all of those. Of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I know. In Ireland in 2015, under any circumstances, it is just not acceptable that a person of those senior years should be left on a trolley in the first place. That should not happen. I do not manage the corridors in hospitals but anybody with a management responsibility could understand a situation where-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----one would not have to have such a situation applying. The Minister was very concerned about that, as I was myself. In any circumstances, that should not be, as Deputy Martin knows well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: The question is how to deal with all these issues. The transition and the work under way in the Department of Health will certainly not be easy to conclude successfully. Every person I meet who has been through the health system and had treatment has nothing but the highest regard for those who work on the front line, including nurses, doctors etc. The problem in our system is getting in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 3 to 10, inclusive, together. I was invited by Professor Klaus Schwab to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and I travelled to Davos for 21 January to 23 January. The annual meeting is attended by political and business leaders and heads of international organisations from across the globe. The theme of this year’s meeting was...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: We have had contributions from three formidable characters here, a Cheann Comhairle. First of all, I would say to Deputy Martin, Deputy Adams and the members of the Technical Group that, if they want and as I said before on many occasions, they can put down a priority question each week and I will answer it if it is an issue that they wish to follow through, and we can deal with the rest of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: It has grown in recognition by those companies that come here for that reason. Why is it that the top ten companies in the world born on the Internet are here?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: Why is it that all the pharmaceutical companies are here? Why is it that the financial services people want to come in here?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: Why is it that companies in the IT industry, every one of them, are here? It is because they recognise the talent pool of our young people coming through our educational system.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: When I talk to them, they say it is not just the track record, it is not just the technology and it is not just the tax situation but it is the quality of the talent pool emerging from our school system,------

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----from our educational system. That is paying serious dividends. I would say to Deputy Boyd Barrett, obviously we have got rid of the double Irish concept because of reputational damage. Ireland plays its full part in the OECD analysis of the base erosion and profit sharing. We got rid of that because there are no brass plate companies here where we just have a plate but nobody...