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- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----for further expansion for business.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: In case the Deputy has any doubt about it I will make it as clear for him as I can. A great deal of intensive work has been going on in the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive for the last period. It was not clear how many and from what categories people would leave the health service. We now know that. The structure is that the assistant secretary in the Department of...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am glad to see that Deputy Higgins goes back over the records and takes quotations as he finds them for use on occasions like this.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: We had the Deputy and his work rate yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett's record of productivity is quite enormous; he has probably organised more protest marches than anybody in this House with the combined service.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins seems to have a philosophy that nobody should do anything or pay for anything in this country. Every socialist party in Europe with the exception of himself, as the leader of whatever group he has over there-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----wants and is agreeable to some form of property tax. That is what every socialist party in Europe, with the exception of his good self, wants. When I joined a local authority many years ago people paid rates and they paid for water and refuse services but all of those things went their own way because of political considerations. The vampire that the Deputy speaks of was reckless...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and it has left us in a very different position than we have ever been before-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and that has to be restored. This household charge is â¬100 and some 72,000 people have already registered for this payment. I thought that the Tower Hotel held 500 and not 700. There must have been 200-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: I wonder how many of the Deputy's people were in Dundrum House the other night to hear the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government deal effectively with the septic tank issue raised so effectively by my friend over here.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: I would also like to say to Deputy Higgins, clearly, there are exemptions built into this process. Properties that are part of a trading stock of a business do not need to declare. Local authority properties used for social housing, voluntary or co-operative properties, old properties owned by charities where commercial rates apply and where a person is forced to face home due to long-term...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Surely even the Deputy in his capacity as leader of the socialist group over there understands that there is nothing free in this world anymore and that somebody is being asked to make a contribution here.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: There is no increase in income tax. Some 330,000 were taken out of being liable to the universal social charge.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and 40,000 had the minimum wage restored to them. What the Government is focusing on is not austerity, but sorting out public finances and providing every opportunity for one job or 1,000 jobs to be created, and I hope the Deputy supports that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Everyone understands the difficulties and challenges that many people face in this country today, including those under pressure due to distressed mortgages, negative equity, bills and personal debt. This is a challenging time for everyone-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and I understand this because people who are under pressure come to me regularly. The entire country must band together to deal with this problem because it will not go away. There are 200,000 households exempt from the household charge. The Deputy talks about disgraceful activity. I understand that at these socialist group meetings they have-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----they actively collect a â¬50 charge for a fighting fund in case there are any legalities involved. Is it â¬5 or â¬50 they collect for the fighting fund?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: The best antidote to social welfare is a job, because a job can transform a life. The Government is trying to sort out our public finances. I understand and commend people on their patience in dealing with this. We are putting whatever resources we can into the creation of jobs and opportunities. Last Thursday, I attended a ceremony organised by the Minister for Justice and Equality,...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins can continue with his socialist rant in here every week.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: As far as we are concerned, the Government is focused on implementing its plan and the job announcements that will come because of people's confidence in our country both abroad and at home. We will shift the blockages to business and job creation and give people in the Deputy's own constituency the opportunity to go to work and have a career, so that he will not be coming in here ranting...