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

Enda Kenny: On a point of order-----

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

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Cuffe wants to come with me any weekend, I will show him wildlife in places he has never been.

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

Enda Kenny: if Deputy Cuffe wants to go counting hen harriers or counting frogs I have no objection.

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

Enda Kenny: The Government took 5% from them as well.

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

Enda Kenny: The Government is cutting their pay and child benefit and Deputy Cuffe expects them to go counting frogs for him.

Written Answers — Railway Procurement Practices: Railway Procurement Practices (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has requested and received copies of all internal audit reports into CIE companies from CIE as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45987/09]

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: There should be a debate about this as it is a very important element of the work to be done here. I know there was a report from the committees dealing with European affairs and European scrutiny and agreement on that but it is critical that the way this House deals effectively with the legislation coming in a river from Europe. For too long we have had so many examples of Ministers hiding...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: We want to put an end to that. As the Taoiseach is well aware, the Lisbon treaty gives adequate notice to national governments of intentions to introduce legislation either by directive or regulation. This should be debated in the House and I would like to know the details of the extra resources that will be made available to the committees so the matters can be effectively scrutinised. We...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is not agreed. Deputy Gilmore and others made the point about the Social Welfare Bill 2009, either before or after the budget debate concluded yesterday, that this is a Bill of real significance in which gross unfairness could have been avoided. In this Bill, the Government proposes to take €8.60 a week off a full-time carer looking after an Alzheimer's patent while allowing people...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is a Social Welfare Bill of gross, unwarranted and palpable unfairness and it should not be bulldozed through this evening and tomorrow and, for that reason, I reject what the Taoiseach proposes to do.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will the Taoiseach give our regards to the members of the Council?

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: We understand that.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: And some in Kenmare as well.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputy Kieran O'Donnell.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: At the end of his response the Taoiseach said that we have the ability to turn the corner. The Minister for Finance assumes we have already turned the corner, according to his dissertation yesterday. The budget may or may not contain all the answers to our economic problems but it has the appearance of an honest and credible attempt to meet the country's need, that is, to kick-start the...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----either from reports of the Director of Corporate Enforcement or the fraud squad or anybody else. It is worse when it transpires that in some cases the developers were the bankers themselves. The circle is very complete here. Yet the Taoiseach expects to come back to the Irish taxpayer as a separate entity as if it is not money out of their pockets and say, "Sorry, but we need another...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The choices being made yesterday had to be made. The good aspect about this discourse is the Fine Gael Party, in accepting the parameters of €4 billion, set out a very different alternative strategy and a very different kind of budget where those vulnerable people, the carers, the disabled, the blind, the widows, the pensioners and the children, were protected and those in the other area...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: With no stimulus provided, the real problem is the lack of credit from banks to businesses. Mr. Sheehy from Allied Irish Banks informed the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service that when his bank receives the bonds from the National Asset Management Agency it will not translate them into credit for business. Since the deposit guarantee was introduced, the Minister for Finance,...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: If the Taoiseach does not get down to business and talk to his British counterparts about levelling the playing pitch, the surge in cross-Border shopping will continue. Six weeks ago, my party stated that whatever else the Government does, it should not tamper with the universality of child benefit. Every other country in Europe has an in-built mechanism in the tax system to address the cost...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: This proposal is not agreed to. The behaviour of the Government, in the context of the way it wants to do its business, is the most arrogant of any Administration I have ever seen. The Order of Business is absolutely contemptuous. It is proposed that we take statements on the carbon budget for 65 minutes and then guillotine the debate on the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill at 6.30...