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Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: You, a Cheann Comhairle, sit in the Chair of adjudication in this House where the Government has treated this House with contempt. Members of the Government do not want to be in here. They do not want to answer any questions, or have any accountability or responsibility for the powers vested in them.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Let me return to something that is in order. The finance Bill is to be published today. Will the Tánaiste confirm that people who lost their jobs in the earlier part of the year and received redundancy payments will not be hit by additional income levies in today's finance Bill? Will this finance Bill deal with the problem of mortgage interest relief?

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am asking about legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: You are very fast off the mark this morning, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: I want to know, because the biggest failure of the Government has been its failure to give reassurance about the future. It has caused terror economically among people who do not know whether they are to be faced with-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----water charges, property rates, third level education fees, further income levies or whatever.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will the finance Bill deal with the problem the Government now has of the structure of mortgage interest relief. Many families are losing up to €75 a week? Will it deal with that? Does the Tánaiste have any concern over the consequences of a price war, which may well result in serious-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Hold on a second, a Cheann Comhairle. This may result in serious job losses in the food production industry here.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure if the Ceann Comhairle had his early morning walk this morning.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Does the Tánaiste intend to introduce fair trade legislation to protect the many jobs of the 230,000 workforce involved in the production of Irish food?

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the social partnership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15531/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress in the social partnership talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15562/09]

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: I welcome the proposals put forward today by the Construction Industry Council for off-balance sheet financing of infrastructural projects. I regret that they are not nearly as ambitious as the proposals put forward by my party a number of weeks ago. We put forward serious proposals that would lead to the creation of 100,000 jobs in four years in a range of areas that of themselves would be...

Social Partnership. (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Can the Taoiseach refer to reports that the Government is considering a new structure of social partnership? In what format does the Taoiseach see it? Will a greater number of community sectors be involved? Will the Oireachtas have any role or responsibility? Is it not a weakness in the current system that the Oireachtas has been left out of the framework? Deputy Gilmore spoke about the...

Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government confirmed last week that the by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South will take place on 5 June. When does the Government expect to move the writs so that persons involved can then make arrangements for election material etc.? I welcome that the Senate in the Czech Republic today approved the Lisbon treaty by the...

Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: While I know the Taoiseach cannot give a specific date now, whenever he is in a position to do so it would be helpful for him to give an indication early on. This is a matter of critical interest to the country. I would be very happy to know whether it will be approximately end of September, October or November so that we can make arrangements.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: Tomorrow, 7 May, marks the first anniversary of the elevation of Deputy Cowen to the rank of Taoiseach. In that time it is important that we look not only at the loss of the Lisbon treaty referendum, the death of social partnership, the three failed budgets, the lack of action on public service reform and the doubling of unemployment in 12 months to 384,000, but at the contradictions in the...

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will not be here tomorrow.