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Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is important to point out that we are talking about a jobs initiative, not a jobs budget.

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: Budgets indicate ranges of tax increases, tax changes and so forth. This jobs initiative was well flagged before the general election. It is part of the programme for Government to stimulate the indigenous economy and give a sense of confidence. I recognise, as does the Deputy, that there is a loss of consumer confidence in this country. The savings ratio of Irish people is very high at...

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I hope all of those Deputies who are responsible for driving this economy and our country up on to the rocks will support that initiative when it is published and when it is announced in the House, as distinct from the carry-on in which they used engage in spending taxpayers' money with considerable amounts of spin and all the rest of it. From that perspective, this is a case of the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is an unfortunate term Deputy Finian McGrath used at the end of his question. I am aware of the numbers of children who have died in State care. This was a matter that I, as Leader of the Opposition, raised on a number of occasions with the previous Minister for Health and Children, the Minister of State with responsibility for children and youth affairs and Minister for Justice,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: The question of young adults receiving after-care has been a sensitive issue in that there were claims that there was not any real interest in looking after children once they had passed that age and become young adults. I would like to think the State at a minimum should have a real interest in seeing that somebody who leaves State care gets continued assistance and help in life. The...

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 6, Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad] - Second Stage (Resumed). Private Members' business shall be No. 19, motion re education and training.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I want to answer the Deputy directly. There will be meaningful consultations with the Members of this House. I speak with experience of this matter. The first question from the Deputy that I answered was about changing the way we do business in this Chamber to reflect the Ireland of 2011 and the right of every Deputy to contribute and have his or her say. The Whips will be meeting this...

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I assure the Deputy that while this Government might have the strongest majority in the history of the State, there will be genuine consultation but there will also be a conclusion and a decision in respect of making this place more relevant to the needs of the people and the Deputies who are elected here.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his questions. The Nurses and Midwives Bill will be discussed at the Whips' meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow and the schedule for taking it can be agreed then. It is expected that the mental health (amendment) Bill will be taken in 2011. It comprises 17 heads and it is being introduced to make technical amendments to the Mental Health Act 2001, which are necessary to...

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure about the clarification of the word "review". The Chief Whip's report on the legislative programme clearly indicates that the mental health (amendment) Bill will be taken in 2011. A Seanad Bill, the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008, was also published and is due to be taken on Second Stage in the Dáil. This is a matter which the Deputy can usefully raise at the Whips' meeting.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I respond by stating, as I stated last week, that the Government will bring forward its jobs initiative before the end of May and it will be announced in the House, where it should be announced and unlike what happened on other occasions. That will be a demonstration of seriousness, in parallel with making decisions on sorting out the banking sector which were left on the long finger for far...

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is a most serious position but there is no point in running away from it. We have to face it down and one way we will restore confidence and hope is by providing a national initiative in terms of stimulating our own economy.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: That will be announced in this House by the Minister for Finance.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: The jobs initiative Bill will have to be approved by the troika but it indicated when we met it before Christmas that sectors of the IMF-EU deal could be transposed provided they were revenue neutral, and that will be the case. This is not a budget in the sense of proposing new taxes. Adjustments will be made from the internal Votes of Departments.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: There are devastating consequences. Clearly, there are also issues of governance in the banks which need to, and will, be addressed. Obviously, this is a matter of the most serious concern to the 2,000 workers, the vast majority of whom had neither hand, act nor part, or who were not involved in any way, in the crisis inflicted on the country. This is a matter where the persons involved...

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: We will include that in the debate.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government is committed not to sell Coillte but to amalgamate it with Bord na Móna.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I did not hear that.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am sorry but I did not hear the question.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: One of the things I have tried to do with the parliamentary section is when a commitment is made to bring forward a Bill that it actually happens and that we do not have lists of Bills which are named to be produced at a certain time but which never happens. Let us get a little focus on this. The Bill is scheduled for later in the year. I do not know the position on bringing it forward to...