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Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure whether Sunday rates apply to articles written on Thursday or Friday.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation is discussing the Duffy-Walsh report with the social partners. He will report back to the Government, which will make a decision.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: When the Minister reports back.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: By the end of June.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government expects to make a decision on this by the end of June.

Order of Business (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware that, as outlined by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Finance, the bulk of the money for the jobs initiative comes from the levy on the pension industry. There are no programmes that will not go ahead, although there will be some capital works, which have already been referred to, that cannot go ahead because of insufficient moneys. No...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have chaired 14 meetings of the economic management council dealing with fundamental elements of our economy and how we can get out of the mess we have been left with. The same applies in respect of the other Cabinet committees, which, as the Deputy knows, are subject to the principle of confidentiality. Committee Stage of the Finance Bill will be taken next week. Politics, as the Deputy...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams must have been doing too many clinics in his constituency as he seems to have missed the fact that we have changed the original deal here because the Ministers for Finance and Public Reform and Expenditure renegotiated elements of the deal with the IMF and the EU. They got their consent to reverse the decision made to cut the minimum wage; to reduce employers PRSI by 50%; and to...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are speaking about the job creation measures arising from Question No. 7 tabled by Deputy Martin and Deputy Adams seems to have missed that or he has just let it slip by.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have also pointed out the internship programme that is here, the stimulus that will come from the regeneration of disintegrating road structures throughout the country and the schools programme which will give targeted employment potential for smaller employers in the construction sector and tradespeople who have been out of work for some time. I am quite open about this. This is not as...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin can feel free to ask any question he likes on Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 next week. I have already made the point that, and as was pointed out by the Minister for Finance, elements of the pensions industry clearly indicated that their preference would be for a 0.5% levy as distinct from any further reduction in tax relief in the pensions area. This is...

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will get all the answers to all those questions on the-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The reason-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The reason Ministers are appointed to this Cabinet is to accept responsibility for their Departments, not like somebody opposite who said he had no responsibility-----

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----for up to €1 billion in respect of elderly people.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In regard to the answer to the Deputy's question and any other question he might have, he can spend as much time as he likes on Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 next week and the Minister for Finance will reply.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have made the point about how the pensions levy arose.

Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is not an illusion or a mirage, which the Deputy talked about earlier. This arises from political decisions made by the Cabinet and based on its conclusions on a range of information provided. That range of information can be the subject of any number of questions the Deputy wishes to ask next week on Committee Stage of the Bill which is where they are supposed to be asked.

Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 13, inclusive, together. I met with the First Minister, Peter Robinson, MLA, and his Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, MLA, in my first full week in office when I visited Washington for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I also met them at the funeral of Police Constable Ronan Kerr in April. I met them again at the event in College Green to...

Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In respect of Deputy Adams's questions, the best way of being proactive in regard to Northern Ireland issues and in so far as North-South issues are concerned is through the North-South Ministerial Council and by regular contact between Ministers. I agree this should happen on a regular basis. The reason we have not had a great number of contacts is that we had the run-in to the Assembly...