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- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Yes, but the Government spent â¬17 million on outside consultants.
- European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting in Brussels on 18 to 19 June 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24670/09]
- European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the details of the bilateral meetings that he has held on the margins of the June meeting of the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24671/09]
- European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Brown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24674/09]
- European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I was happy to attend in Brussels with the leaders of the European People's Party, EPP. All the prime ministers were there except the Belgian Prime Minister who had to attend a state visit from the King of Jordan. All those leaders were very much in favour of supporting Ireland's case for the guarantees that were promised last September. I was happy to see at the conclusion of the Council...
- European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach can rest assured that the Fine Gael party will do all in its power to work towards the successful ratification of the Lisbon treaty by the Irish electorate and I say that in the broadest sense that we can assist here. Yesterday, the Taoiseach indicated that the Bill would come to the House the week after next. What is his intention with regard to establishing the referendum...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I do not agree. We are putting through approximately â¬45 billion in 45 minutes. This represents â¬1 billion per minute and ten minutes speaking time for each party. I realise this was discussed or referred to in committee. In his response to the matter of Crumlin hospital this morning, the Taoiseach made the valid point, which I accept, that we should discuss matters of efficiency and...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Is the Taoiseach aware of the difficulty that will arise, due to a lacuna in legislation, when the Government establishes the National Asset Management Agency, whereby the agency will have serious difficulty acquiring assets in cases where the developers who have taken out loans have involved one or more persons in the ownership and title of some of the assets concerned? Does the Taoiseach...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Minister would not wish the issue to be confused.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I take it that it has been ruled out. The vote will be on the Lisbon treaty alone. Fair enough, I accept that.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: It is a terminal debate.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: The debate was meant to be terminal.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I wish to share my time with Deputies Timmins and Creighton.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Politics is always about people but the debate on the last occasion became bogged down in detail about institutions, which turns people off. This country was always an information society. For 2,000 years we sent educators and missionaries all over Europe. The Irish, by the their nature, are a curious people. They are inquisitive and like to know the scale of problems and difficulties....
- Social Welfare Benefits. (25 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time it takes for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim in respect of jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23319/09]
- Job Creation (30 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach his recent proposals to the social partners regarding the use of social welfare funds to support job creation; if he has received a response to his letter in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22277/09]
- Job Creation (30 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: While I recognise this is a start, it is a belated start. Will the Taoiseach confirm that 98.5% of the workforce is excluded from the Government's proposal to provide â¬250 million to protect 30,000 jobs? I agree this is a frustrating time for employers who find themselves in a position in which employees must be let go. If employees are let go and a company goes out of business, it is...
- Job Creation (30 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I will try to be positive. The Taoiseach is as aware as I am of the critical nature of the unemployment situation. In the case of fiscal regimes which are not working because of the depressed state of the economy, is the Government considering an economic stimulus that would create jobs? When the rate of capital gains tax was set at 40%, things slowed down to a minimum but when the rate...
- Job Creation (30 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach may answer the next question about the direct transfer of subsidies for persons who are unemployed. Does he see the Government dealing with the question of transferring the social welfare of persons who are unemployed and looking for work to their employers?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2009)
Enda Kenny: I will read a short quotation which states: Competitiveness is not a vague concept. It is critical for the creation and retention of jobs . . . [Today] we are 15th out of 16 countries on prices and wages; 15th out of 16 on infrastructure; 11th out of 16 on IT; 15th out of 16 on transport; and 12th out of 16 on research . . . . Ireland is the joint most expensive country in the eurozone for...