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- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am glad Deputy Martin got all the information.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I hope the Deputy reads it. There was a time when he was on the Government benches and refused to acknowledge that he left behind him a budgetary deficit of €646 million in the Department of Health.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Everybody in this House shares the view and objective of restructuring and re-engineering the scale of bank debt that was inherited following the incompetence of the previous Administration. It is not as simple as just pressing a button and saying it is over. Ministers and Department of Finance officials have undertaken direct discussions both at the European Council and the European...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Everybody in this country knows we face a very challenging time. The Deputy asked me if this budget has been poverty-proofed and I was asked this question yesterday also. In so far as we can, we try to protect those who are vulnerable, isolated, lonely and who need attention and care as strongly and to the best extent we can. There are always cases that are exceptional and come to...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Adams well knows, it is not by any means the harbinger saying we are through all of this. There are challenges ahead but we are moving in the right direction. Our people around the country tell me that I must keep at this because the problem will not go away unless we deal with it. That is what both parties in Government are setting out to do. It is not with any great pleasure...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams comes in here every day and makes the same argument.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: There has been a long tradition here in the country that in the run-in to budgets, all parties are entitled to submit their claims for alternative budgets to the Department of Finance to be assessed and valued independently. Deputy Adams's party did not bother to do that.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Consequently, it ill behoves Deputy Adams-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It ill behoves Deputy Adams to come to this Chamber and castigate the Labour Party or anyone else.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: While Sinn Féin can have its rows with Fianna Fáil if it wishes, the test for Deputy Adams and his party was, why did they not submit their alternative budgetary propositions to the Department to have them costed independently.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams should be clear about the following point. Members should see all those young people in the Visitors Gallery. When those young people grow up and become adults in this country, the Government seeks to have achieved a situation in which Ireland's economic good health has been restored, where there is an engine to drive the economy efficiently and competently-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: ----- and that we never again will have a situation in which the Government runs riot with the people's money. The Government seeks to have restored that good health to the economy in order that investment can be attracted and jobs can result. This is what is important in this regard.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Government seeks to protect those front-line services and those who are vulnerable in as fair a way as it can.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is the reason that if, for example, Deputy Adams has decided there is an alternative to a property tax, it means one loads on income taxes, as well as taxes on work, and that will not help in a scenario in which one must develop one's economy. In the vast majority of cases, the moneys that will come in from that tax will be retained by local authorities for services for local people.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Local people wish to see good competent government delivering in their interests.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The next time, Sinn Féin should send its proposals over to the Department of Finance-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: ----- to have them costed and then Deputy Adams will see how daft they are.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "No". I thought Deputy Ross was one of the four angry men going around the country.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure how well the show was going-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I wish him the best of luck with it. The Deputy is well aware that the position of Greece is very different to that of this country. We have a particular request, which is what I referred to when replying to Deputy Adams.