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Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: It cost €1 million and is a beautiful building with all the facilities provided. I am sure it is a privilege for the staff to teach there. When one considers that we could build 3,000 of those every year for ten years in respect of the promissory notes of €30 billion signed for banks over the next decade, then one can understand the scale of the background to where we now find ourselves.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is gone and we now have to deal with the consequences of those decisions. That is why the Government has made decisions focusing on the banks and sorting out our budget deficit over the next few years, and focusing on the creation of jobs, giving some stimulus to the indigenous economy and presenting this country as being open for business and as a location for foreign direct investment...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: My Department has an economic and social policy division that is available to provide me, as Taoiseach, with advice and briefing on appropriate relevant issues. I set up a number of Cabinet committees, including committees on economic recovery and jobs, social policy, climate change and the green economy, European affairs, economic infrastructure, Irish in the Gaeltacht and public service...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is nonsense to suggest that the Department of the Taoiseach is not responsible for economic policy here.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have chaired 14 meetings of the economic management council dealing with fundamental elements of our economy and how we can get out of the mess we have been left with. The same applies in respect of the other Cabinet committees, which, as the Deputy knows, are subject to the principle of confidentiality. Committee Stage of the Finance Bill will be taken next week. Politics, as the Deputy...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams must have been doing too many clinics in his constituency as he seems to have missed the fact that we have changed the original deal here because the Ministers for Finance and Public Reform and Expenditure renegotiated elements of the deal with the IMF and the EU. They got their consent to reverse the decision made to cut the minimum wage; to reduce employers PRSI by 50%; and to...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are speaking about the job creation measures arising from Question No. 7 tabled by Deputy Martin and Deputy Adams seems to have missed that or he has just let it slip by.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have also pointed out the internship programme that is here, the stimulus that will come from the regeneration of disintegrating road structures throughout the country and the schools programme which will give targeted employment potential for smaller employers in the construction sector and tradespeople who have been out of work for some time. I am quite open about this. This is not as...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin can feel free to ask any question he likes on Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 next week. I have already made the point that, and as was pointed out by the Minister for Finance, elements of the pensions industry clearly indicated that their preference would be for a 0.5% levy as distinct from any further reduction in tax relief in the pensions area. This is...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will get all the answers to all those questions on the-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The reason-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The reason Ministers are appointed to this Cabinet is to accept responsibility for their Departments, not like somebody opposite who said he had no responsibility-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----for up to €1 billion in respect of elderly people.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In regard to the answer to the Deputy's question and any other question he might have, he can spend as much time as he likes on Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 next week and the Minister for Finance will reply.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have made the point about how the pensions levy arose.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is not an illusion or a mirage, which the Deputy talked about earlier. This arises from political decisions made by the Cabinet and based on its conclusions on a range of information provided. That range of information can be the subject of any number of questions the Deputy wishes to ask next week on Committee Stage of the Bill which is where they are supposed to be asked.

Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 13, inclusive, together. I met with the First Minister, Peter Robinson, MLA, and his Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, MLA, in my first full week in office when I visited Washington for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I also met them at the funeral of Police Constable Ronan Kerr in April. I met them again at the event in College Green to...

Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Adams's questions, the best way of being proactive in regard to Northern Ireland issues and in so far as North-South issues are concerned is through the North-South Ministerial Council and by regular contact between Ministers. I agree this should happen on a regular basis. The reason we have not had a great number of contacts is that we had the run-in to the Assembly...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I have spoken to all of the Ministers about the importance of this matter. The Deputy said that loose talk costs jobs, which is true. So does lack of truth and transparency. When he had the opportunity - he was less than economical with many of the facts of life. I put this to the Deputy. This Government is in a very different position from the one of which the Deputy was a member...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have taken decisions in respect of a national economic stimulus and we are now carrying out a detailed analysis of how public moneys are spent so we can prioritise what we can do within the constraints of the IMF-EU deal for the 2012 budget. Of course, the international wires carry news they regard as appropriate. I confirm, as I did last week in this House, that there will be no need...