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Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Can the Ceann Comhairle clarify?

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is Leaders' Questions and I have not asked my second question. I disagree fundamentally with the Taoiseach. This is not a separate issue. The moneys pumped into Anglo Irish Bank, including €4 billion this year, are real moneys from real taxpayers' pockets. We cannot keep it separate in another entity, as if it is not real money affecting real people. My question concerns the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Government has talked tough about everybody, but why has the Government not acted tough with the banks?

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: In conjunction with the European Commission and the European Central Bank, can we take it that the Government will wind down Anglo Irish Bank in an orderly fashion and save the taxpayers €3 billion to €4 billion out of their pockets? My question concerns whether the figure is included in the figures to be presented this afternoon. In view of the likelihood of pouring more money down the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----as if they own the place, as if they can do what they like immune from any law or any action from Government?

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will write any cheques so.

Departmental Staff. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions since June 1997 to date in 2009 on which officials in his Department, or in the agencies under his aegis, were granted either a discretionary payment or pension top-up on retirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35609/09]

Departmental Staff. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Were the guidelines set down by the Department of Finance ever breached in the case of any official from the Taoiseach's Department? I ask because the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, told the Dáil that in the case of the former director general of FÁS, Mr. Molloy, the €1.1 million golden handshake was in accordance with the rules of the Department of Finance. When Deputy...

Departmental Staff. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I do not want to drag up the individual case either. It is history now - costly history. The point is that guidelines are laid down by the Government and the Department of Finance, and those guidelines were breached in this case. The Minister for Finance told us they were not breached when clearly the internal information showed that they were breached. Since that issue arose and since...

Departmental Staff. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: She asked the question of the Taoiseach. She is not going to answer herself.

Social Partnership Negotiations. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the social partners on 20 October 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38483/09]

Social Partnership Negotiations. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Last Tuesday morning, was a telephone call made to Mr. Peter McLoone on behalf of the Government to inform him that the Government had signed on for the measures which were contained in the proposals from social partnership, including the compulsory unpaid leave? I have my views on the logistical nightmare this provision would cause. As I understand it, these talks went on until 7 a.m. on...

Social Partnership Negotiations. (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: While I accept the Taoiseach had to put certain matters on the record, he made some very lengthy replies.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have a couple of questions on the proposal. When will we be given information on the grouping of votes which will depend on the contents of the Minister for Finance's Budget Statement? The Minister will commence his statement at 3.45 p.m. and speak for between 30 and 45 minutes. When will we be in possession of information on the grouping of votes that may take place later? If the Dáil...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will it be after the Budget Statement or the vote?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach cannot confirm that the statement of the Minister will be agreed if the House does not vote at midnight.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will not be able to put it through at all if it does not get to midnight or if, for example, some people kick the traces over there. Perhaps the Taoiseach is very confident.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Is the Taoiseach fully confident?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: For quite some time Fine Gael has set out its view on support for a carbon tax. The beauty of contrast is that this party produced its budget perspective last Friday, which included use of revenue from a carbon tax to provide incentives and opportunities for employers to create employment and to hold on to existing jobs by the reduction of PRSI at the 20% and 50% levels. Fine Gael's budget...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: That is fine until he goes to his-----