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Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----nobody in this House bothered their barney to put together-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the threads of a carers' strategy, and it is being dealt with now.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I made the point to the Deputy that an extra €1 million is allocated for autistic children this year, again next year and the year after that. Neither the Deputy nor I decides on the basis of an analysis of an application for domiciliary care allowance, nor am I qualified to give a verdict in regard to those issues.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy would like me to sit in the Taoiseach's Department all day every day meeting with Cabinet sub-committees-----

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and not deal with the essence of politics, which is about people.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: We have, Deputy. We try to deal with these meetings as reasonably as possible, give them a programme of work to do and ask them to report progress. I hope they will do that.

Cabinet Sub-committee Meetings (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I will report back to the Deputy on 24 May.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 7, inclusive, together. The IFSC Clearing House Group, CHG, has met on six occasions in the past year and is due to meet next on 3 April. Its associated working groups in banking and treasury, insurance, funds, asset management and pension funds meet regularly, typically on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. My Department has supported the international...

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I recognise, as does the Deputy, that the original concept of the IFSC came from a very important businessman and was implemented by a former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, who set up the IFSC in the 1980s. It now employs 33,000 people which is a testament to its evolution over a number of Governments and is a very important entity in terms of corporation and payroll taxes. I cannot answer the...

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the Clearing House Group discussed it. The Government is opposed to it.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the Clearing House Group discussed it. The Government has made it perfectly clear it is opposed to it. I note President Sarkozy's wish to introduce one on his own or in collaboration with some other countries. Countries are entitled to do that. The Clearing House Group is chaired by the Secretary General of my Department. I will let Deputy Martin know whether there...

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is deliberately mixing up retail banking transactions and those that take place in the IFSC. If we were to follow the Deputy's advice, we would close down the country completely.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy's socialist policies were implemented, bearing in mind he is the only socialist I know in the whole of Europe who is opposed to any kind of property tax, the country would close down completely.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has not raised the role and responsibility of the banking and treasury working group, nor has he raised the role of the IFSC funds, insurance, pensions or asset management working groups. Regarding the retail banking sector, I agree with the Deputy on what happened when Ireland decided to run its affairs on the basis of windfall taxes from property speculation and that the greed of...

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin asked a valid question about a transaction tax. We have pointed out on many occasions that one cannot have one set of circumstances in Dublin and another in London, Amsterdam or Frankfurt. Theoretically, if there is to be a transaction tax in a global situation, everybody would like to see it happen. As I stated previously, I would like to see the law in Ireland dealing with...

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is mixing these matters up completely.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins believes the IFSC is like the local manager incentivised to throw out more money to the local developer to build houses for which people could not pay.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: There are 33,000 people working in the IFSC.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The companies pay very large amounts in corporation and payroll taxes. The Deputy wants to reduce the numbers in the IFSC and close it down.

IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy has noted the announcement that 2,500 redundancies are to be made by Allied Irish Banks over the next 12 to 18 months. The bank is in consultation with the IBOA in respect of the package for the personnel who will be leaving the bank. Deputy Adams is aware that, because of the downsizing and deleveraging of AIB and other banks, banks' requirements are much smaller....