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Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: I do not wish to rain on the parade of anyone who has been elevated to the rank of Cabinet Minister or of those who assume new responsibilities as Ministers of State. However, this is an extraordinary time in our country. From what we have heard, the Taoiseach misses the point completely. Before he was appointed Taoiseach, he had an opportunity, in a month long preparation period, to look...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The former Minister for Education and Science has moved closer to the Taoiseach. They are on the Front Bench at present and are all very happy. They sit there completely oblivious to the real problems which face people throughout the country every day. People do not have jobs, they cannot pay mortgages and their houses are in negative equity or are being repossessed. People are lying on...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and ready and willing to deliver on three fundamental pillars to resurrect this country, to bring it in a new direction to a different place, to provide jobs, sort out the political system-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and transform our health service from being inconsistent-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----to one that will make the patient central to it and the focus of all that should be good in health.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: I sympathise with the Taoiseach because he did not look around his own backbenches. He has about 20 or 23 former Ministers-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----propping up this Government. He could not find any new faces or any new competence on the backbenches but he said to the Green Party: "Yes, John, I capitulate in front of you before you go to Waterville", or wherever he went at the weekend, "and you can have your second Minister of State-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and that will keep Fianna Fáil alive for another short time in office, so you can go down to the south------

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: ------and tell the people in the middle of this dark earthwatch hour that you have got your pound of flesh from Taoiseach Cowen and have ended up with your second Minister of State".

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has ended up trying to do the impossible today when he could have done so much different. He could have made a radical change in the way the composition of his Cabinet reflects itself. The people know what the Taoiseach seems to have missed. They know that nearly half a million people, 434,000, many of them young, highly qualified and experienced, are now on the dole or, in...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----are on the street facing this House and cannot even get a passport-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----because of the incompetence and failure of Government to stand over its constitutional requirement.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has managed to transfer unbelievable financial risk from bankers and developers to the taxpayer. I put him on warning that it is my information that when the first tranche of massive loans move into NAMA, there will be no banks to support them. There is not the competence, personnel, experience or the assessment quality of the five-year programmes in respect of those companies...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and vision. Even the survivors across the House who will walk back to their offices from here know in their hearts that what the Taoiseach has taken the most minimalistic approach to deal with the real problems facing our country. It is a rag upon a stick and it is a well used rag at that. The Taoiseach has retreated from the challenge of leadership that fell upon his shoulders. He...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: He should let the people cast their mandate on the various teams offering a new prospectus to run this country. Instead, he wants his Government to stay in office for as long as possible. I warn him that his time is nigh, the people are waiting, the clock is ticking and this sticking plaster of putting two new Ministers into Cabinet for a short time will not work. The people know it will...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: They will, of course.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: As did the Minister of State in Sligo, with his candidate beside him.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: At least the letters were opened then.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: What I said was that health care in the Netherlands costs less per capita than in Ireland.