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Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----that the Government had no plan to reduce the deficit-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----that it had a plan to reduce spending-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and that its plan would damage the economy, rather than facilitate recovery, yet in Northern Ireland it proposed a reduction of £4 billion in public expenditure, revenue-raising proposals amounting to £1 billion and an increase in household rates.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: There cannot be two approaches across the line.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy cannot always ride two horses at the one time.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The focus of the Government is on a lifestyle choice for people to have jobs and be engaged in productive work in this economy and we will go to the European Union tomorrow to contribute to the debate and keep the focus where it should be placed in changing the nature of the deal to ensure flexibility in terms of the rates applying from the fund to a country such as Ireland. The country is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: He left on an enforced holiday, as he did not like Brussels, and was lucky enough to return.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Speculation causes confusion, as the Deputy knows.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The memorandum of understanding-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----was an agreement signed off on by an Irish Government and voted on by the Irish Parliament and is now binding on us. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will bring his memorandum to the Government which will make a decision on the issue of household charges and water metering to bring certainty to the issue. People will know in advance, without further...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure he would have measured up to the teams I trained and played for in times gone by. I never mix sport and politics. I am glad the team was able to win a good sporting game without my presence. If the Deputy wants clarity, the position is that the memorandum of understanding is clear on the introduction of a site value tax and a charge for water arising from water metering. The...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The memorandum of understanding from which Deputy Joe Higgins quoted is very clear. He should read it again. The Government will make a clear decision on these two elements of the memorandum of understanding.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: We will do this when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government brings his memorandum to the Cabinet. That might happen at next week's meeting or afterwards. It is on its way. It will be very clear and certain and end the Deputy's confusion.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I hope that will put his mind at ease.

Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (back from committee); No. 10, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a directive of the European Parliament and the Council establishing minimum standards for the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (back from committee);...

Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: This relates to the transposition of an EU directive into Irish law. The Minister made it perfectly clear that there was any amount of time available for full discussion on these matters on Committee Stage. Yesterday, on Report Stage, the House sat from 6 o'clock until 10 o'clock to discuss this. It sits today from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock to discuss this matter and the Minister is in the...

Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: There has been more than enough time to raise any and all of these matters.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have already responded on that in respect of the amount of time that was allocated for Report Stage from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. yesterday and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. The Minister and the Chief Whip made it perfectly clear that whatever time was required by Opposition Deputies to discuss all of these matters was made available on Committee Stage and was not taken up. The Minister is in...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I appreciate that from Deputy Martin on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party. It is an appalling situation which we see unfolding on television screens across the world. I understand this crisis has now peaked, with the United Nations declaring a famine in two regions of southern Somalia, Bakool and Lower Shabelle. I understand 3.7 million people are in crisis and 78,000 Somalis have fled the...

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams for that and will convey his comments, as well as those of Deputy Martin, on behalf of their parties to Deputy Breen for the benefit of his committee and the decisions at which it might arrive next week.