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Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: He ridicules the fact that more than 11,000 jobs were created in the hospitality sector as a result of the reduction in VAT. He ridicules the suggestion that the Government should not increase income tax so that there would be no extra tax on jobs. He ridicules the suggestion that, for example, the renegotiation of the memorandum of understanding with the troika meant the Government was...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: He ridicules the suggestion that the Government was also able to renegotiate with the troika to take more than 300,000 people from liability for the universal social charge. These were the decisions his Government made which this one has to reverse. I am the first to accept that when I travel around the country and meet people in every walk of life-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----their overriding ambition is to have a job and be in gainful employment. What the Government is doing, and making no apology for it, is shifting out of the rut of hopelessness we inherited to a situation where people can have, not only confidence but also see there is opportunity and that jobs can and will be created. In the course of the six weeks of the referendum campaign we pointed...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the continued investment by foreign direct investors in this country in job creation, including in Limerick, where for more than 20 years Deputy O'Dea's Government refused to do anything about the Shannon Development area.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: At last this Government made the decision to open up a bright new future, with jobs and employment, not just in the Shannon zone but in the entire region. I do not accept, therefore, the remarks of Deputy Martin.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: They smack of absolute hypocrisy, from a Fianna Fáil Deputy who reneged on his responsibility and let down our country.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I would like to begin by responding to the Deputy's comment about documentation being given to the Bundestag. When the Minister for Finance brought the draft report before the Government yesterday, it was made perfectly clear that he had agreed to allow the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform to access the document. That is the normal procedure.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy McDonald is well aware, it is a requirement that copies of the reports be given to the funding countries. Arising from the previous occasion, when a European Commission document was leaked, the Government made it clear that in future, such reports would be given simultaneously to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that the reports would remain...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not speak for the ESRI. I listened to the comments that were made this morning by the author of the report. I also listened to the comments of the director of the ESRI. I do not speak for either of them. I do not see why we cannot have an opportunity to discuss these issues through the Oireachtas committees. Unemployment and employment are the most pertinent and fundamental issues...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does she want us to stop asking them what kind of upskilling or retraining courses they would like to pursue, so the Government can reflect that through the State agencies?

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does she think it is all right to live in an ivory tower? Is that what she assumes? I want her to understand that the Government is engaging vigorously with people about their concerns and anxieties. We are listening and we will act, in so far as we can, in the interests of the nation and the people. Our job is to rectify the public finances and the legacy we inherited. The Government...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is no joke for those who are on social protection. Deputy McDonald can cast aspersions on that in any way she wants. The important thing is that such people should be given an opportunity to have hope and confidence by means of a demonstration that good Government decisions actually lead to employment. If people are happy in themselves that they can contribute to their own family...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's question is "No". Ireland is not going to be walked into any federalisation of Europe. That was rejected by the people on more than one occasion. What is required here is to make political decisions, both within the eurozone and at a European level, to deal with the European banking crisis in the first instance and look at where the Union of 500 million people...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The European leaders are very well aware of Ireland's position. Ireland has voted over the years in respect of European Union treaty after European Union treaty and the Irish people have made their decisions on that very clear, no more so than in the recent 60-40 decision in respect of the fiscal stability treaty. That is what this is about. It is about consolidating and strengthening the...

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a16, European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 – modification of Standing Orders in relation to motion to instruct the select committee; No.b16, European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 – motion to instruct the select committee; No. 16, motion re Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998; No. 17, motion re Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009; No. 2,...

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for her query. Given that this country is in a programme, detailed analysis of its performance is required on a regular basis. So that we can continue to receive funding, various changes must be made, some of which are very serious and many of which require legislation. That is why the House will continue to sit as late as necessary before it rises for the summer recess...

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I cannot give the Deputy a date for publication.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I assure Deputy Bannon that the clear intention is to have the legislation introduced and passed by the end of this year.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: This session.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the information of Deputy Healy-Rae, the HSE governance Bill will be published this session.