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Order of Business (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have no problem with having a discussion on the issue and I would welcome one. The Whips will meet this evening and I assume Deputy Catherine Murphy will raise the issue in order to make arrangements for a debate. Deputy Boyd Barrett should bear in mind that it will be worth having a debate when he sees what the Government proposes to do.

Order of Business (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is an important element of providing certainty for those who wish to invest in the purchase of property. Consideration is now being given to dealing with the issue under the property services regulation Bill, which is at present with the Attorney General.

Order of Business (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will have to revert to the Deputy with the details of that issue. I am not sure that it requires legislation but I will give him an up-to-date report tomorrow.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Minister for Finance. I also agree with him that the Government of which the Deputy was a member entered into commitments for which there was no back-up to provide the wherewithal to deliver on them. For instance, €50 million was supposedly left aside by the previous Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for an agri-environment options scheme, but we found nothing...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: This Government is not into performing U-turns or pirouettes like the Government of which the Deputy was a member. The Minister with responsibility for public expenditure and reform has asked every Department to respond to him by the end of May in respect of the possibility of the potential for disposal of non-strategic State assets. This matter was raised on several occasions during...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The conclusion of the discussions between the troika and the Government was that this could be dealt with on a case by case basis.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: From that perspective, elements of the original deal done by the last Government with the IMF and the EU have been changed following discussions between this Government and the troika about stronger and greater efficiency measures and greater investment in the growth of our economy. When the Minister with responsibility for public expenditure and reform receives, by the end of May, the view...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The troika has a clear understanding with the Government in respect of the sale of any non-strategic State asset and what it can be used for.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government proposes to sort out the economic mess it has been left with by a Government which wrote into an agreement that it denied was taking place. They denied that the IMF was coming to our shores. They denied in public, time and again-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----that this country was not in a position to borrow money-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and that its banks were not in a position to borrow money. This Government will use the mandate given to it by the people to sort this out in Ireland's interest, to restore the public finances to good health and to be in a position to provide through proper and efficient government, facilities for those whom Deputy McDonald mentions.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am aware of the circumstances of many of these people.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: In a modern country, we should not have the situation of the disparity that exists in many of our sectors. I remind Deputy McDonald of the words of the second previous Taoiseach who stated that anybody who thinks the boom in housing and construction would end should go off and commit suicide, for which he had to apologise and which has been a matter of debate in this House for the past three...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and we will deal with it through direct Government.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I remind the Deputy, and Deputy Martin, that the line she refers to in that document was a line inserted by the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member which put into it that non-strategic State assets being sold would be used for debt reduction. That line is continued in the current document-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Troika has a clear understanding with the Minister for Finance in respect of Ireland's achievements in dealing with the fiscal targets that have been set, that on a case by case basis they are quite prepared to listen, as they have done already in respect of changes where there is a stronger commitment to job creation and a demonstration that we are serious about that.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Obviously, Deputy McDonald's leader is away canvassing in Northern Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Neither does it stop at Fair Head.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: I listen to the same repetition from Deputy Ó Caoláin week after week.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Enda Kenny: Let me tell Deputy McDonald something. I have been a public representative for many years. I know exactly the kind of conditions of which she speaks. On each occasion I must visit any constituency in an official capacity or, indeed, when I go to Britain or the United States, I make a point of dealing with those who look after the vulnerable in society, in the case of those who are abroad...