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Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I agree that the vetting process takes too long at present. The Minister for Justice and Equality has done some work on this and is well aware of this fact. We hope, through a process, to get extra assistance in the vetting office. It does not take very long to train competent people in the vetting process and work is being done on this. I expect the national vetting bureau Bill to be...

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I assume that as this is a major priority for Deputy Boyd Barrett's he will have Deputy Catherine Murphy raise it at the Whips' meeting-----

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and he can be assured the Chief Whip will be flathúlach in his response.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I have spoken to all of the Ministers about the importance of this matter. The Deputy said that loose talk costs jobs, which is true. So does lack of truth and transparency. When he had the opportunity - he was less than economical with many of the facts of life. I put this to the Deputy. This Government is in a very different position from the one of which the Deputy was a member...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have taken decisions in respect of a national economic stimulus and we are now carrying out a detailed analysis of how public moneys are spent so we can prioritise what we can do within the constraints of the IMF-EU deal for the 2012 budget. Of course, the international wires carry news they regard as appropriate. I confirm, as I did last week in this House, that there will be no need...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Our IMF-EU bailout deal is to last for two more years. The Government has negotiated downwards the original cost of that deal.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have made changes to the amount that was estimated to be required. We have made changes to elements of the deal in the context of changes in respect of the minimum wage and the jobs initiative, and these have been accepted by the troika. The proof of the pudding is actually in the eating. The first analysis carried out by the troika in respect of Ireland living up to its commitments has...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's comment is quite pathetic.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: He speaks of media commentators, national or international, who speak of telling the truth about events that have not yet happened. We know the truth about what he has left us with and the truth about the stress tests. We know the truth about the changes agreed with the troika by this Government.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We know the truth that is unfolding about the investigation being carried out by the Government in respect of the comprehensive spending analysis. I might hold out a list of at least €253 million of unbacked-up decisions made by the Government across a range of areas, with no decision taken other than the figures put in-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin speaks from the Fianna Fáil benches of the truth about issues that have not unfolded. Nothing has unfolded other than conjecture and projections. As far as we are concerned, the Government is proceeding on the basis of decisions made that were left lying around for a very long time. The consequence of being in the IMF-EU bailout deal has been thoroughly assessed in the first...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's question wanders over the Cooley Mountains. He proceeded from talking about the debt to children of the Government to a whole range of issues. It is the duty and responsibility of the Government to govern fairly and in the best interest of the people. That is why, after these short few months, the truth of what we are finding is unfolding. We will have to deal with it with a...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned people on low incomes. This Government took a decision to reverse the cut in the minimum wage, which reversal and consequent increase will take effect from 1 July and will be introduced by the Minister for Social Protection.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is the first point. Those people in respect of whom the Deputy legitimately raised his voice will have that cut in the minimum wage reversed and, therefore, their wage increased, with effect from 1 July.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The second point is that the jobs initiative introduced by this Government, about which the Deputy had his own views, will go towards playing its part, limited though it is, in taking people off the live register, the unemployment register, and giving them the opportunity to have a job and a career. That is why the Minister for Health and Children today approved and got approval from Cabinet...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not understand why that was not done in the past 40 years but the reason the Government and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is now carrying out a comprehensive analysis of the way moneys have been spent here is precisely to deal with that question so that the Government can prioritise those who deserve priority in terms of being treated fairly across the board.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: If we did not have a situation where decisions were made to spend €60 million here and there on voting machines and another million euro on storing them-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Dooley may laugh if he wishes but that kind of money being put into the area of special needs or attention for senior citizens would go a long way to dealing with that.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: To answer Deputy Adams, what we have got to do-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----is find out the truth of the scale of misspending or inappropriate spending, or where spending is giving best effect, and increase that. I want to see senior citizens valued. I have made that a tenet of mine for very many years.