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Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: They say to me that they are in limbo and they cannot finish their apprenticeships and ask what they are to do. One talks to people who are cash-starved in business and despite all the hype about credit flowing through from banks to business it is not happening. I can outline myriad stories, as I am quite sure every Deputy can, of people who have been in business for up to 50 years who...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Government apparently remains intent on bailing out banks through taxpayer recapitalisation and the purchase by NAMA of toxic developer loans. I have challenged the Government in the past to debate the issues in the House when Deputy Richard Bruton raised the matter of an entirely different system of dealing with toxic issues in the banks which would not expose the taxpayer to a...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Gogarty will have his say.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: I recall a telephone call with the Minister for Finance when he said we would have to introduce a guarantee scheme for the banks. I told the Minister we would support a guarantee scheme for the banks because he will need a banking system for the lifeblood of the economy to operate. I did not know, and apparently nobody else knew, except members of the Government, that when he came into this...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have to tell the Taoiseach that across Ireland, in city and in town, businesses are crucified because they cannot get cash. They are cash starved, and despite all the hype about banks indicating they are approving this and that loan, it is not happening, and the evidence is before our eyes.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: People have had overdrafts reduced from €20,000 to €3,000. People looking for short extensions on credit facilities cannot get them. Local bank managers are no longer entitled to make decisions and the decisions being made higher up the line are often by people who, with respect to them, have not created a job at any time in their lives. It appears as if this Government will continue...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: It deals not just with putting investment into infrastructure but those infrastructure developments will be an attraction for further investment across the country, not just location specific. When I hear Ministers saying the Fine Gael Party does not have any constructive ideas to suggest, I put forward that proposal as one the Government has not even considered because it does not consider...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: We are spending €16,000 million of taxpayers' money on a system that is not working. It is a two tier system that is not patient centred and has gone down the road of building private hospitals on public lands. We know from our analysis of what we can bring in each year that those savings would be better put back into the front-line services of nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, speech...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Fine Gael proposal to introduce fair care and universal health insurance is the way forward. It works in Holland for 16 million people.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: There is no reason it cannot work in an Irish situation for a population of 4.2 million. That is a progressive, radical, futuristic way to deal with our health system which within five years would eliminate waiting lists, provide proper primary care systems and a health system of which we could be proud. I know Deputies McManus and Reilly will get together, as they did in the past about...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----and you, Deputy Gogarty, will have your say.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal, a Cheann Comhairle.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Arising from the catastrophe for the Government last Friday - I am being serious about this issue - we now must deal with the consequences of the last Lisbon referendum vote. I hope the Irish people will pass the Lisbon referendum whenever it is decided to hold it.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am concerned, however, that arising from the vote of no confidence by the people last Friday that the Taoiseach now faces a serious problem in attempting to lead our country to a point where its people will vindicate that in which we believe in terms of the Lisbon referendum and pass it. I am glad Mr. Ganley took up my challenge of standing in Ireland north west. I am glad that he had the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: He must decide if he saying, by his vote, that he rejects the voice of the Irish people, given in their hundreds of thousands, against the Government last Friday? Deputies who vote with the Government are saying, "I do not respect the voice of the people given through the vote". They are saying the Government is doing a good job, which I reject. I therefore call on every Deputy to consider...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 536: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of complaints received by his Department in relation to the publication in 2008 by his Department of the all island grid study; when the complaints were received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22151/09]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the average cost of a wind farm here; if so, the average cost of a wind farm here; if the figure for Ireland is higher than the European Union average which according to the European Wind Energy Association is on average €1.2 million per megawatt capacity; if so, the action...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the round trip efficiency figure for the Turlough Hill, County Wicklow, generating facility used in the modelling of the all island grid study; the way this figure was calculated; if the figure is accurate in view of the fact that according to EirGrid, the round trip efficiency of Turlough Hill in 2008 was...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 677: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made to date in relation to the negotiation of the pilot programme for ABA schools; the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow has been excluded from this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22617/09]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will the Taoiseach indicate how many jobs will be saved by the €4 billion injection into Anglo Irish Bank? How much extra lending will be made available to small business arising from the injection of €4 billion that he proposes to put into it?