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Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 3, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 7 shall be decided without debate and Private Members' business shall be No. 25, Spent Convictions Bill 2011 - Second Stage, and the proceedings...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: This matter has been raised before in the House. I expect the Minister will publish his Bill inside a matter of weeks and that it will be processed through both Houses. It is a complex Bill, as the Deputy is aware. It has been brought forward expeditiously. I cannot give the Deputy an exact date but the pressure is on the Minister to produce the Bill as soon as possible and it will be...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: What is in order is while the minimum wage deals with finances it is an industrial relations matter. The effective date for implementation is 1 July 2011 and it is being dealt with by the Minister for Social Protection.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not think legislation is promised.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Whips had discussions about this Bill already. There will be an order for winding up of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill tomorrow and this is necessary in order to progress the Bill. It deals with the reversal of the cut in the minimum wage and I am quite sure Deputy Higgins does not wish to see people who have seen a reduction in their minimum wage rate be left with this situation...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: No, I am not promising that. It will be guillotined as we have to move it on.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am sure that Deputy Boyd Barrett is interested in meeting the people from his constituency who had their minimum wage cut and would like to be able to tell them he has spoken in their favour to have the cut reversed. The reason the Government will guillotine Second Stage of the Bill is to move on. As the Deputy is aware, he can continue to voice his concerns on Committee and Report...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister is preparing a memorandum in respect of this. It is part of the condition of the IMF-EU deal and the Minister will report to the Government in due course in respect of any legislation that might be necessary. Deputy Cowen and others will be advised of the situation.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is a valid question in respect of noise pollution and it is no joke for people who have to put up with it in housing estates or apartment blocks where the walls are paper thin. I cannot give the Deputy a date for the introduction of legislation but it is a matter of genuine social concern of which I am well aware.

Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: We want to make a raft of changes that would be implemented from September when the Dáil resumes. The intention is that the committees, which will be set up tomorrow, would be able to consider the heads of Bills as they are drafted and give a political response from Oireachtas committees. I hope that will be in operation from September. The committees will be formed tomorrow with all of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin started with an assertion that I said we are funded until 2014 in all circumstances. That is not what I said. The Deputy is aware that the bailout deal goes well into 2013. The position is that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, yesterday set out clearly the situation in so far as answering the questions he was asked. He said quite clearly that he is not prepared to negotiate on...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I made that clear to all and sundry at the first meeting of the European Heads of Government. It is time for Europe to focus on what it needs to do to help countries which are making a committed and genuine effort to get out of the economic difficulties they face.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is also a necessity to focus on restructuring the kind of system that will apply under the ESM when it comes into operation in July 2013. We do not want a situation where one enters a mechanism out of which one cannot get. That is an issue I intend to raise at the meeting of the European Heads of Government later this month. In essence, Ireland is not conceding on its 12.5% corporate tax...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: When Mr. Papandreou spoke to me before the meeting in Brussels, he was seeking a 2% reduction in the interest rate, as well as an extension of time, and I told him we would be highly supportive of helping the Greek people and Government in their difficulties. As matters stood, Greece was not within the EFSF but was outside that mechanism and a 1% reduction was given, as well an extension of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: First, the reason we are having this discussion this morning and many other discussions for the last number of years is because in the first instance of the lousy legacy left by the inability of Deputy Martin's colleagues when in Government.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I refer to the deal negotiated by the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member with the IMF-ECB-EU, when he refused to tell the truth-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: ----about Mr. Chopra being here in the first place. It has been renegotiated by the present Government in respect of a reversal of the cut in the minimum wage-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----which affected a raft of lower paid workers. There also has been a renegotiation in respect of introducing a jobs initiative to stimulate the indigenous economy, with regard to changes made to dysfunctional banks, which the previous Government refused to face for more than two and a half years-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and in respect of no further transfers to NAMA.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I trust the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, to continue his negotiations in respect of the responsibility given to all the Finance Ministers regarding the capacity to have a reduction in the interest rate. However, I will raise the points I have just made at the Heads of Government meeting. I believe there is a clear need for Europe to consider where Europe is headed at present-----