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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Adams did not hear that this morning, either he or his adviser does not understand plain English. I thought I made it very clear.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is amazing that Deputy Adams has shown the audacity to come in here and say what he has said. As one of his peers in Northern Ireland from a different party used to say, "don't put words in my mouth".

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I did raise it.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Doherty will have his time in leadership in a few years' time.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has covered a range of subjects. Money has been ring-fenced for the provision of mental health services. The Government made it perfectly clear that rather than mental health services being sidelined as they were for years, they are being brought to the centre of the delivery of normal health services. That is the way it should be and that is the way it will be. The Minister of...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is a legacy in respect of schools that might be termed as semi-DEIS schools.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I remind Deputy Martin that legacy issues have been there for quite a long time.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The situation is that changes in numbers will have a certain impact on teachers in some schools with legacy DEIS issues.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: It will not happen to the extent that has been suggested.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Finian McGrath will be quite aware of the significance of the protection of the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools. If that had been altered, obviously it would have given rise to a very different kind of argument.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not have the information Deputy McGrath has in regard to the person who spoke to him about a situation applying at Christmas. That time has not yet arrived but if the Deputy wishes to supply details to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, I am sure she will be prepared to look at the situation. I take the Deputy's point about having to revert to private services. One of the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Regarding the dearer private services which the Deputy mentioned, I have only just been made aware of the capacity of this model to provide a first-class, additional or complementary service on a non-profit basis, at a big saving to the taxpayer. I will bring this to the attention of the Minister of Health for his consideration. If the model were to be applied and if it worked credibly and...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11 together. The Government Economic Managment Council has been established with the status of a Cabinet committee. It has four members: myself, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. A second Secretary General has been appointed in my Department whose...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We called in the banks and had a discussion with them about lending policy in general and whether AIB and Bank of Ireland would be in a position to meet the 2011 target of lending €3 billion apiece, €3.5 billion next year and €4 billion in 2013. We also called in Ulster Bank so there were three banks together at the end of that meeting for a discussion on the passing on of the interest...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams can check his notes again. I am not responsible for what he writes down. I am responsible for what I say.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I would like to see what he wrote down. The next time we have a private meeting, I will record it officially if he is going to broadcast it like this afterwards.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The passing on of the ECB interest rate reduction is a matter for the Financial Regulator. I wrote to him on behalf of the Government stating if he required further assistance or a change in his regulatory powers, the Government would respond favourably to such a request. I have already read out his reply in which he clarified that at this time he did not seek any change in his regulatory...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We all agree ECB interest rate reductions should be passed on by the banks. We made that crystal clear to the banks when they attended a meeting in November on this issue. It must be borne in mind the Government has just a 15% stake in Bank of Ireland. Ulster Bank made its position clear in so far as the number of mortgages it has here are concerned. Nonetheless, there was a full and a...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: In its culture.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy that the decisions taken in the budget are the collective responsibility of the Cabinet. The economic management council is not the Cabinet. The Deputy will be aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced a comprehensive expenditure review across all Departments very early on in the summer with Ministers to respond to him by the end of...