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Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----both for the opening of the Coca-Cola plant, a €300 million investment, and to talk to enterprise and small indigenous business which is now employing unemployed people and is in the business of manufacturing and exporting.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: When she has the opportunity, I would like Deputy McDonald to outline her party's economic strategy in the context of the creation of jobs.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: In so far as the Government is concerned, I want to see the maximum number in employment.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: The focus of the Government will be on introducing a micro-finance and a partial loan guarantee scheme.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are open to ideas that are credible - even those brought forward by Deputy McDonald's party - to get people back to work.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: However, not too many such ideas have been put to me.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: Far from living in an ivory tower, the Government is cracking on in dealing with the obstructions to business and job creation. That is where our focus is going to be. I sympathise with every person who is unemployed, as people want to work. There are some cultures within Irish society which must be shaken up because we are facing a new reality. We are not our own economic masters. The...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and be in charge of its economic destiny. The Government's ethos is that Ireland will be open for business, that business will be created here and that work and initiative will be rewarded. We will proceed, in conjunction with the people, to put Ireland back in the position it should occupy.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is evidence that in the farming, pharmaceutical and software sectors and so many other there is the potential for job creation and the Government will respond to it.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I note the report from the IMF. The Deputy is only too well aware that frequent denials regarding the state of the country's economy were issued prior to the arrival of the IMF. The Government, which I lead, has been working assiduously with the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission - the troika - on the changes we consider to be important, both in the context of this country's interests...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I make it to the Deputy that in the context of the decisions made in July with regard to the economic position for the future. We undertook to engage in certain actions are are doing so assiduously. Deputy Ross is correct when he observes that the conversation in Europe is focusing on whether any country can be successful in emerging from the current economic turmoil. Everyone in Europe is...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: No, I am not happy to be, nor do I intend to be, nor will the Government be a spectator standing "idly by" while all this happens, as somebody more famous than me said one time.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: The IMF is perfectly entitled to make its proposals. It has been very considerate of propositions put forward by our Minister for Finance in respect of the renegotiation of elements of the memorandum of understanding. It is perfectly in order for Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy to meet, as it is for any other leaders. I expect to go to Germany to provide an update on the progress...

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 4 - European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011 - Second Stage (resumed) and Subsequent Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; the resumed Second Stage of No. 4 shall, if not previously concluded, be...

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will take note of that. Obviously, today's debate is on the European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011. All of these matters are related. Legislation is coming through on a range of issues in regard to Europe. I will get the Whip to consider it. Obviously, we may have to sit longer, or possibly on a Friday, to facilitate such a debate. We...

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, we have introduced a change to the effect that the House will have debates before and after major heads of government meetings take place. I cannot recall whether we had one after the July meeting.

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: Did we come back after that?

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: Did we not?

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: In any event, the structure here is that the Whips will have a meeting.

Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Whips have taken notice of the interest in that matter of Deputies McDonald and Martin.