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Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (3 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The new National Economic and Social Council was appointed on 20 January 2011 and its term of office is for 3 years. Its membership is made on the basis of nominations received from representatives of trade unions, business and employers, farmers' organisations, environmental sector, community and voluntary sectors, key government departments and independent experts. No remuneration is...

Written Answers — Programme for Government: Programme for Government (3 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 89 together. As I have previously indicated to the House, the Programme for Government was adopted by the Government at its first meeting as the framework for its work over coming years. It sets out the policies and initiatives to be progressed over the term of the Government to tackle the many and varied challenges facing the country. My Department...

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (3 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 to 92, inclusive, together. I am responsible to the Dáil for the general activities of my Department and parliamentary questions addressed to me must relate to public affairs connected with my Department, or to matters of administration for which I am officially responsible. However, there are specific activities undertaken by officials of my Department...

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (3 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have met with representatives of the IMF on the following occasions: Wednesday 16 March 2011; and Tuesday 12 April 2011. As regards future meetings, none have been specifically scheduled but it would be reasonable to expect that I will meet with IMF representatives during their future review missions to Ireland under the EU/IMF Programme. Currently, quarterly review missions have been...

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (3 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: As I indicated in my reply in the Dáil on 30 March, I intend to meet with the representative groups of social partnership in due course to outline the Government's approach to dealing with our current economic challenges and to explore how their activities can enhance economic and social progress. These meetings have not yet been scheduled. The Government values dialogue with the social...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Minister for Finance. I also agree with him that the Government of which the Deputy was a member entered into commitments for which there was no back-up to provide the wherewithal to deliver on them. For instance, €50 million was supposedly left aside by the previous Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for an agri-environment options scheme, but we found nothing...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This Government is not into performing U-turns or pirouettes like the Government of which the Deputy was a member. The Minister with responsibility for public expenditure and reform has asked every Department to respond to him by the end of May in respect of the possibility of the potential for disposal of non-strategic State assets. This matter was raised on several occasions during...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The conclusion of the discussions between the troika and the Government was that this could be dealt with on a case by case basis.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: From that perspective, elements of the original deal done by the last Government with the IMF and the EU have been changed following discussions between this Government and the troika about stronger and greater efficiency measures and greater investment in the growth of our economy. When the Minister with responsibility for public expenditure and reform receives, by the end of May, the view...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The troika has a clear understanding with the Government in respect of the sale of any non-strategic State asset and what it can be used for.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government proposes to sort out the economic mess it has been left with by a Government which wrote into an agreement that it denied was taking place. They denied that the IMF was coming to our shores. They denied in public, time and again-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----that this country was not in a position to borrow money-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and that its banks were not in a position to borrow money. This Government will use the mandate given to it by the people to sort this out in Ireland's interest, to restore the public finances to good health and to be in a position to provide through proper and efficient government, facilities for those whom Deputy McDonald mentions.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am aware of the circumstances of many of these people.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In a modern country, we should not have the situation of the disparity that exists in many of our sectors. I remind Deputy McDonald of the words of the second previous Taoiseach who stated that anybody who thinks the boom in housing and construction would end should go off and commit suicide, for which he had to apologise and which has been a matter of debate in this House for the past three...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and we will deal with it through direct Government.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I remind the Deputy, and Deputy Martin, that the line she refers to in that document was a line inserted by the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member which put into it that non-strategic State assets being sold would be used for debt reduction. That line is continued in the current document-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Troika has a clear understanding with the Minister for Finance in respect of Ireland's achievements in dealing with the fiscal targets that have been set, that on a case by case basis they are quite prepared to listen, as they have done already in respect of changes where there is a stronger commitment to job creation and a demonstration that we are serious about that.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Obviously, Deputy McDonald's leader is away canvassing in Northern Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Neither does it stop at Fair Head.