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Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal, ní fhaca mé suas ansin é. Tá an Teachta Gogarty chomh fada suas ansin.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The people will have a number of choices. They can vote for the Fianna Fáil Party that has devastated the economy, undermined the Republic and cast away our economic independence, the party which, egged on by its former allies, introduced all of the worst excesses of the free market to Ireland. Alternatively, they can vote for parties of the left, which have committed in some cases to...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----or powerful unions. Fine Gael, in government, will keep taxes as low as possible, not for any ideological reasons but because international evidence shows quite clearly that this is the best way to create jobs and to generate growth. As Deputy Noonan pointed out yesterday, no country has ever taxed its way back to prosperity. This party will also reform government and make it leaner,...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I might add that, as has been pointed out by many, if it costs €90,000 to train a young Irish nurse who is one of the best qualified in the world, and they all have gone away and some returned to be employed on an agency basis, what the Government has done has been to allow proliferation of administrative bureaucracy that is to the detriment of those front line services which the Government...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: We have also pointed out that it is important to lead from the top and the front and deal with the issues of the Houses, this Chamber, Government, the cost of governance and the way it operates. A story is circulating that the Cabinet has discussed the abolition of the Seanad by referendum on the day of the general election. This is some conversion on the road to Damascus if it is true, as...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is what the Taoiseach said.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will certainly run it in a very different way to yours, Brian.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's absent colleagues have no faith or confidence in him and want him out. The Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government wants the election by the end of January. Wait and see. If the Taoiseach decides to be on this side of the House, then fair enough. He will see what a good government will do in the interests of the people and not carry on the way he carried on...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: As one of the Ministers said to me previously, when one is on antibiotics one becomes immune to things after 13 years. That is what is wrong with the Government. It is flattened, jaded, exhausted, out of ideas and out of time.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: This is why we accepted the overall targets set out. This is why we accepted a €6 billion adjustment for this year and a €9 billion adjustment over the next three years. Not only did we accept this, but we put down our four year plan costed to deal with it. When we met the IMF and the ECB, they made it perfectly clear that in the context of the plan approved and signed off by the...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I stated there would be no income tax increases for 2011. It could have been done a different way. Ask the thousands of middle-income and low-income families being fleeced by Fianna Fáil.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The point is that the Taoiseach did not tell people the truth. He was not straight with them about the IMF or the ECB. These people have now taken away our economic independence. The Taoiseach cashed in our sovereignty and it is our job to see they are sent home as quickly as possible.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's first mistake was to believe his own party's propaganda and to believe that investors would reward Ireland if the Government, as he once said, just wrote whatever cheques were necessary for the banks. As Fine Gael predicted on more than one occasion, this blank cheque policy has failed completely. A few months back, in an article in The New York Times, a reporter asked...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: This is like her predecessor speaking about happy parents, happy teachers and happy families. Huge amounts of rent are being paid for prefab buildings in dilapidated conditions. So much more could have been done.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: They were the Minister's words yesterday. She stated we must do more and make a major effort in literacy and numeracy.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The evidence internationally is that our teenage students have slipped in the area of literacy for which the Minister, Deputy Coughlan, is now directly responsible. In every Ministry she has held, she has failed to live up to the reputation with which she came. Fine Gael will continue to set out its own strategy, which will be about changing the way our politics work and will ask the people...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The budget yesterday was the product of an exhausted Government. It lacks conviction, confidence and compassion. The impact of the Fianna Fáil-Green-Independent-supported budget has and will consign thousands of low and middle income families in this country to near penury, a serious financial hit, a serious drop in living standards and hardship and pressure they could never have imagined....

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is not the question I asked the Taoiseach. I said that his budget yesterday was a product of an exhausted Government and that it lacked compassion, conviction and confidence. The Minister for Finance described it as being sensible, rational and equitable. I said that the Taoiseach's salary yesterday was 13 times that of a person on the minimum wage and today it is 14 times that level....

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: This was costed by the Department of Finance.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: It was costed by the Department of Finance.