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Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is what the Taoiseach said.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will certainly run it in a very different way to yours, Brian.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's absent colleagues have no faith or confidence in him and want him out. The Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government wants the election by the end of January. Wait and see. If the Taoiseach decides to be on this side of the House, then fair enough. He will see what a good government will do in the interests of the people and not carry on the way he carried on...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: As one of the Ministers said to me previously, when one is on antibiotics one becomes immune to things after 13 years. That is what is wrong with the Government. It is flattened, jaded, exhausted, out of ideas and out of time.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: This is why we accepted the overall targets set out. This is why we accepted a €6 billion adjustment for this year and a €9 billion adjustment over the next three years. Not only did we accept this, but we put down our four year plan costed to deal with it. When we met the IMF and the ECB, they made it perfectly clear that in the context of the plan approved and signed off by the...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I stated there would be no income tax increases for 2011. It could have been done a different way. Ask the thousands of middle-income and low-income families being fleeced by Fianna Fáil.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The point is that the Taoiseach did not tell people the truth. He was not straight with them about the IMF or the ECB. These people have now taken away our economic independence. The Taoiseach cashed in our sovereignty and it is our job to see they are sent home as quickly as possible.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's first mistake was to believe his own party's propaganda and to believe that investors would reward Ireland if the Government, as he once said, just wrote whatever cheques were necessary for the banks. As Fine Gael predicted on more than one occasion, this blank cheque policy has failed completely. A few months back, in an article in The New York Times, a reporter asked...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: This is like her predecessor speaking about happy parents, happy teachers and happy families. Huge amounts of rent are being paid for prefab buildings in dilapidated conditions. So much more could have been done.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: They were the Minister's words yesterday. She stated we must do more and make a major effort in literacy and numeracy.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The evidence internationally is that our teenage students have slipped in the area of literacy for which the Minister, Deputy Coughlan, is now directly responsible. In every Ministry she has held, she has failed to live up to the reputation with which she came. Fine Gael will continue to set out its own strategy, which will be about changing the way our politics work and will ask the people...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is an asylum.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is what Deputy Bannon says as well.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am conscious it is 1 p.m. and that if the Minister stands up I will not be permitted to raise this point or order. I ask him to comment on reports that because of the decision taken by the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to put the vote on the IMF-ECB agreement to a vote of the Dáil next week, that the IMF has now deferred its own executive board decision on the agreement originally...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I wanted to raise the question before the Minister stood up.

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the projected expenditure by him in 2011; the way that figure compares with the estimate for 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46017/10]

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements he is putting in place for the implementation of those elements of the Government's National Recovery Plan that relate to his Department or the agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46018/10]

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Did I hear the Taoiseach correctly when he said in the block of Votes relevant to his Department that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is included?

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: In view of the comments made by the DPP, Mr. Hamilton, in respect of the difficulties his office is experiencing, if further savings are to be made there in 2011 can the Taoiseach confirm they will not be at the expense of it being able to deliver the service of which the DPP has spoken in the past? Those services are necessary if we are to have fairness and transparency in the justice areas...

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for that response. The Director of Public Prosecutions made two important points. He said that if the current trend continues, "something will have to give". He also said he is considering extending to serious cases of sexual abuse the facility available to him when people look for a reason a prosecution was not pursued in serious cases. In his response, the...