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Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Can I do that?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Do you want to put the motions now?

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I understand there is a special finance Bill to be brought in on Friday. What are the issues that are to be presented in that special finance Bill and is it proposed to dispose of that Bill on Friday? Second, when is it proposed to publish the report on gaming and lottery. I thought I heard the jingle of-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----casinos in the distance and I understand that central to that aspiration is that the gaming and lottery report would be published. When is that expected?

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the Taoiseach's last comment, when does the Government expect to consider that report and sign off on it? Are we likely to see that report published before the end of the year or will it be sometime in the new year? On Thursday last, I asked the Tánaiste a number of questions here but she was unable to give a complete answer, maybe because the Government has not decided. I...

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for this clarification. I welcome the fact that the Dáil will return at an earlier date than originally envisaged. I was looking at the Gormley missile which was circulated in his constituency-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: It states to his constituents that there were three issues he wished to have dealt with. The first was a credible four year plan, the second was the budget for 2011 and the third was securing funding support from the IMF, the ECB and the EU.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has almost succeeded in his three ambitions, but they were all predicated on his announcement to his constituents that we have reached a point where the people need political certainty to take them beyond the coming two months.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: He told them he believed it was time to fix a date for a general election in the second half of January 2011. I hear reports coming through the ether about climate change Bills, mayoralty Bills and corporate donation Bills-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and that they are all to be dealt with in the blended - that is the new word - amalgamation of the finance Bill and the Dáil returning one week earlier.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: Is it intended to take legislation other than the finance Bill? Will we be sticking by this Gormley edict of going to the hustings at the end of January or by mid-February?

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: And carpet fitters and carpetbaggers.

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: And that when it is reignited it will not get out of control like the last time.

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: There are others over there who will write them.

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: They are already half-way through them.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: There was no need to do it.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: He may not get through.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Government got it completely wrong in this case. We oppose this group of Financial Resolutions because they will hit low and middle income earners. The imposition of income tax as proposed by the Government will destroy the traditionally low level of tax levied on the wedge between the employer's bill and the take home pay of the employee. The Government is going to force down the...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: If the Taoiseach is going to read out a ten-minute script at the start of each one of these, the 20 minutes will not be long being used.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: I know the Taoiseach was doing the best he could to get through the speech.