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Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Mirabile dictu. I can inform Deputy Martin that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will bring forward the heads of his Bill in respect of corporate donations to Cabinet next week. The Ministers in their Departments responded to the request and the recommendations made by Moriarty. This will be brought forward as a matter of priority. For that reason and as...

Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: A number of transfer orders have gone through the Cabinet in respect of changes in the titles and the responsibilities of different Ministries. The legislation in respect of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, for which the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has responsibility, will be before the Cabinet on Tuesday. The legislation dealing with the Minister with responsibility for...

Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is a complex matter and the reason I have not tied a timeline to presenting to the people a referendum on children's rights is that it has got to be right. This is a sensitive issue. The Deputy will be aware that during the lifetime of the previous Government an all-party Oireachtas committee came forward with a specific wording, following its members from all parties having done a...

Twenty-Ninth Amendment to the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: First Stage (10 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: No.

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (10 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: There are no such assessments, reviews or reports being carried out by my Department under the terms of the EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is no secrecy about this initiative. I made it perfectly clear that it was a top priority of the Government to focus on creating jobs, getting people back to work and developing our economy. The Deputy is not interested in a Punch and Judy show and neither am I. In his statement yesterday, the Minister for Finance set out the details of this initiative and what it could mean in terms...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The committees of the Oireachtas will probably be set up next week. They will provide an opportunity, as well as that provided in the House, for full debate on these matters. If there is any outstanding information the Deputy seeks, it will be provided to him, because there is not anything secret here. It was the declared intention of the Government to introduce this initiative, which will...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The initiative announced yesterday is what it says - an initiative to stimulate investment and job creation in our economy. I make no bones about saying how this is being funded, nor did I yesterday. As the Deputy is aware, pension funds have been the subject of massive tax concessions which have allowed them to be built up over the years. This is not a tax on any individual pension; it is...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government has a mandate for this pension levy, because it was published as part of our programme.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The advice is political judgment.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We could sit here and whinge and complain and wring our hands in desperation-----

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----that nothing could be done about this. We have taken a very modest measure-----

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----to over four years inject funds into an area where we feel it is needed. For the first time from a Government it is an expression of joined-up thinking about how to get our country moving.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy was here yesterday and the announcement that was made by the Minister for Finance on behalf of the Government is a stimulus for the Irish economy. He talked about jobs. We are not in the business here of setting out boxes to say this will create 348, 256, 4,009 of whatever number of jobs the Deputy wants to mention.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is about confidence in a country and a Government that is demonstrating clear and decisive leadership for the people.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: To take the example of the initiative announced by the Minister for Education and Skills, there are 2,200 jobs in construction and the fitting out of the schools, which will start almost immediately. The announcement was made yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Some of those will be in County Louth.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy were to go to those people who are going to get the contracts on those schools and say that he thinks they need a stimulus he would want his head examined. This is about putting people back to work. This morning at 11 o'clock the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources will announce a scheme for retrofitting which will provide 2,000 jobs starting almost...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Adams wants to laugh at anybody who will get a job out of this initiative, then so be it.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is what happened with the previous Government which lost touch with the people who were about to lose jobs or who were unemployed.