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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is aware that the country's participation in a programme supersedes the figures mentioned in the political agreement reached in the early hours of last Saturday morning. As he is aware, this political agreement does not yet have legal standing. A great deal of technical work must be done before a text can be presented which will be ratified in various ways by individual...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: There was a music outfit one time called Mike and the Mechanics. They used to sing a song called "Isn't it Amazing?".

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: This morning, Deputy Adams attended a private briefing for the leaders of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group. What he is now saying is not what he was told. It is not a case of me forgetting, or a case of me not wanting to say something.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is a case of Deputy Adams deliberately misinterpreting what I said this morning. I said I raised it at the Council meeting. I presented our case on the basis of the challenge that now faces the Irish people. Before the bailout, this country borrowed €63 billion at excessive interest rates in order to recapitalise the banks. It was the equivalent of 50% of our GDP. I made the point,...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Adams did not hear that this morning, either he or his adviser does not understand plain English. I thought I made it very clear.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is amazing that Deputy Adams has shown the audacity to come in here and say what he has said. As one of his peers in Northern Ireland from a different party used to say, "don't put words in my mouth".

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I did raise it.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Doherty will have his time in leadership in a few years' time.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has covered a range of subjects. Money has been ring-fenced for the provision of mental health services. The Government made it perfectly clear that rather than mental health services being sidelined as they were for years, they are being brought to the centre of the delivery of normal health services. That is the way it should be and that is the way it will be. The Minister of...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is a legacy in respect of schools that might be termed as semi-DEIS schools.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I remind Deputy Martin that legacy issues have been there for quite a long time.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The situation is that changes in numbers will have a certain impact on teachers in some schools with legacy DEIS issues.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: It will not happen to the extent that has been suggested.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Finian McGrath will be quite aware of the significance of the protection of the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools. If that had been altered, obviously it would have given rise to a very different kind of argument.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not have the information Deputy McGrath has in regard to the person who spoke to him about a situation applying at Christmas. That time has not yet arrived but if the Deputy wishes to supply details to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, I am sure she will be prepared to look at the situation. I take the Deputy's point about having to revert to private services. One of the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Regarding the dearer private services which the Deputy mentioned, I have only just been made aware of the capacity of this model to provide a first-class, additional or complementary service on a non-profit basis, at a big saving to the taxpayer. I will bring this to the attention of the Minister of Health for his consideration. If the model were to be applied and if it worked credibly and...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11 together. The Government Economic Managment Council has been established with the status of a Cabinet committee. It has four members: myself, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. A second Secretary General has been appointed in my Department whose...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We called in the banks and had a discussion with them about lending policy in general and whether AIB and Bank of Ireland would be in a position to meet the 2011 target of lending €3 billion apiece, €3.5 billion next year and €4 billion in 2013. We also called in Ulster Bank so there were three banks together at the end of that meeting for a discussion on the passing on of the interest...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams can check his notes again. I am not responsible for what he writes down. I am responsible for what I say.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I would like to see what he wrote down. The next time we have a private meeting, I will record it officially if he is going to broadcast it like this afterwards.