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Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (30 Apr 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the final higher education grant will be awarded by a local authority (details supplied); the reason the final payment has not been authorised to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17171/09]

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Tomorrow, 7 May, marks the first anniversary of the elevation of Deputy Cowen to the rank of Taoiseach. In that time it is important that we look not only at the loss of the Lisbon treaty referendum, the death of social partnership, the three failed budgets, the lack of action on public service reform and the doubling of unemployment in 12 months to 384,000, but at the contradictions in the...

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will not be here tomorrow.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: We had a different view on how to frame the recent budget. We argued for a two-third cut in spending and one-third tax increase approach. The Government, however, chose a different avenue. Do the Taoiseach's Ministers realise the extent of anger on the streets when so much has been taken from so many? They had nothing to do with the problem that was caused by others which the Government...

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: There is not much evidence of that on the ground.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Our budget was about creating 120,000 jobs.

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the social partnership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15531/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress in the social partnership talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15562/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: I welcome the proposals put forward today by the Construction Industry Council for off-balance sheet financing of infrastructural projects. I regret that they are not nearly as ambitious as the proposals put forward by my party a number of weeks ago. We put forward serious proposals that would lead to the creation of 100,000 jobs in four years in a range of areas that of themselves would be...

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Can the Taoiseach refer to reports that the Government is considering a new structure of social partnership? In what format does the Taoiseach see it? Will a greater number of community sectors be involved? Will the Oireachtas have any role or responsibility? Is it not a weakness in the current system that the Oireachtas has been left out of the framework? Deputy Gilmore spoke about the...

Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government confirmed last week that the by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South will take place on 5 June. When does the Government expect to move the writs so that persons involved can then make arrangements for election material etc.? I welcome that the Senate in the Czech Republic today approved the Lisbon treaty by the...

Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: While I know the Taoiseach cannot give a specific date now, whenever he is in a position to do so it would be helpful for him to give an indication early on. This is a matter of critical interest to the country. I would be very happy to know whether it will be approximately end of September, October or November so that we can make arrangements.

Order of Business (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: That is very abrupt.

Suspension of Member (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: You gave no warning at all.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: In normal circumstances I would wish the Tánaiste a happy anniversary. It is just a year since the change in the senior personnel in Government. Deputy Coughlan is now the Tánaiste in the worst Government in the history of the State.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: She has presided over the most rapid rise in unemployment ever. If the Minister of State, Deputy Roche, wants to laugh about it while the Taoiseach says we are heading towards having 500,000 people out of work-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Johnny Brady thinks it is a laughing matter, he should go down to County Meath and tell the people there about it.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: If they think the failure of every single Minister to do anything about employment is a laughing matter, they will get their answer on 5 June when those people go to vote in their constituencies.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is the most incompetent and worst Government in the history of the State.