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Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: We have capped tax relief on pension contributions.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: And there will be PRSI on unearned income.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: DIRT is increased to 33%.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Severance payments to Ministers have been abolished.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: They have been abolished for everyone.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I would not believe all that I read in the newspapers.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's acceptance of newspaper reports as the truth is far removed from reality.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The position is that a number of weeks before the budget was presented by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Martin and others put forward the proposition that the old age pension was going to be cut-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----that the travel allowance was going to be cut, that the electricity allowance was going to be cut-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and that the half-rate carer's allowance and the bereavement grant were going to go.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: This budget is not about any particular party; it is about our people and our country.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The mess that was left for us to clean up requires difficult decisions that have an impact on people's lives. Nobody denies that, but the point is that we have to make choices in a situation like this because our country will never be right unless we put order on our public finances and restore our economy to good health. In that sense the Government set out with a deliberate decision to...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy could refer his words to his own actions, with his inarticulate drivel and his untruthful and hypocritical comments about the property tax, which he signed up to but does not want introduced yet. In the middle of a children's referendum he circulated leaflets in his constituency stating it was the wrong time to do something he signed on for and designed himself.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I pointed out, the carer's strategy was agreed and published by the Minister of State at the Department of Health in conformity with what the carers themselves expressed as the principal issues.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The estimated expenditure in 2012 on carers is more than €771 million, with €509 million being spent on carer's allowance, €24 million on carer's benefit, €135 million on the respite care grant and €103 million on the domiciliary care allowance. That represents an increase of more than €20 million on expenditure in the carer area compared to 2011. More...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's question about unpicking elements of the budget. His attack on the Labour Party is utterly hypocritical and opportunistic. He is under pressure from his colleagues on the far side of the House.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: He chose to pick on the Labour Party.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The budget presented by the Minister for Finance is not about the Fine Gael Party or the Labour Party; rather, it is about Ireland and its people.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is about the Government having the conviction and the courage to clean up the inordinate mess left behind by the most incompetent, out of touch, arrogant Government of the past 50 years.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will do this, taking into account the circumstances in which so many find themselves. People all over the country say to me that they know difficult decisions must be made in the interests of all the people.