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Tax Collection (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: It was not a Cabinet decision.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has finished where he started by talking about political accountability, the absence of which was very evident for a very long period of time. Deputy Martin is aware that the power to transfer information has been available since 2005. He is also aware that the Revenue Commissioners are not subject to diktat from the Government with regard to any particular sector. I am sure he...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Let me answer the Deputy's questions. The answer to the first question is "No". I was not aware of the extent of the letters going out from the Revenue Commissioners to pensioners. The Revenue Commissioners are completely independent of Government and to attempt to either direct them or dictate to them would be unwarranted interference by the Government in what is a completely independent...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government does not discuss whether pensioners in the category where a 20 cent liability might be involved should be written to by the Revenue Commissioners.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The €45 million was not buried away in the forests, but was in the supporting documentation to the budget, which the Deputy should have read.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Revenue Commissioners would have notified the Department of Finance, as is its due, to say that on the basis of the assessment of the more than 500,000 files it received, it would be in a position to collect €45 million. It was the responsibility of the Revenue Commissioners to collect that and that information was included formally and publically in the supporting documentation given...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Martin is aware from experience, there is never discussion at the Cabinet table - but perhaps he was not there - as to whether the Revenue Commissioners should be directed by the Government to go after a particular category or sector.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Notification was given by the Revenue Commissioners to the Department of Finance and it was the responsibility of the commissioners as to how to go about the matter.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am glad the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners was in before the Oireachtas committee today to clear up this issue once and for all. Everybody will understand exactly where he or she stands now. I am glad that communications and any further correspondence between the Revenue Commissioners and different sectors of society will be improved as a consequence.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá clár rialtais fada leagtha amach ag an Teachta ansin. Is dóigh go raibh an Teachta é féin ar imirce óna dáilcheantar i rith na Nollag freisin. Níl a fhios agam an raibh an Teachta sa bhaile nó cén baile ina raibh sé. In any event, I want the Deputy to understand that I have already made a new year resolution, a continuation of the one I made last year -----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- by Government decision, to sort out the problems of our public finances and to put our country in order so that we can grow as an economy, have peace and prosperity for our people and careers and job opportunities for the next generation. Every worker who received a pay cheque in January saw no change in that from that issued in December -----.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- because there was no change in the income tax levels, rates or bands, as committed to by the Government. People have said to me in their hundreds that at least they are in a position to plan their lives for this year and beyond with some degree of certainty. I agree there are issues in respect of planning in so far as charges and all that are concerned -----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- but we have given the people the opportunity and the choice to plan.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not hear the Deputy talking about, for instance, the investment-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----of €350 million by a major US multinational in our country on Monday of this week, which is a signal internationally of American strength, competence and continued investment in this country where workers - ordinary men and women who go to work every day - and others, including subcontractors and subsuppliers, will have a future as a consequence. The troika is back in town. It is here...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I did not know that Deputy Adams was colour blind. The colour here is blue and red.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will talk about green, white and gold later. I have already made the point about the promissory note for which he and we were not responsible but which is the subject of serious technical discussions at the level of the European authorities and the IMF to negotiate an alternative to the promissory note as set out in the first place. I will not go beyond that except to say that there is...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I should wish Deputy Higgins a happy 2012. As he is aware, over the past two years the concept of dealing with unsubordinated bond investors has resulted in €15 billion being taken out of that category. The Deputy appreciates that this country is in a programme. He will also appreciate that, between January and October of last year, there was a movement of 125,000 people off the live...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: If we were not in a programme, given the circumstances that apply to the country, we would be expected to do in a year what is envisaged over three years in the programme. That would have brought the Poor Clares out in public with a clear break in their silence, although I am not sure if Deputy Higgins would have joined in the chorus. We must look at what the commentators and economists all...

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 8, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 4, Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011, Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 8 shall be decided without debate. Private Members' business, No. 38, motion re. special educational needs, shall, if not...