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- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: No, I will not.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Mr. Justice Cregan, in his complete independence, has sent his interim report and has pointed out what he considers are the challenges.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We need to find a way of dealing with it as a response from the Oireachtas.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments and question, which is well thought out. Deputy Griffin raised the same matter in a Topical Issue a couple of weeks ago. As a representative of a very large tract of rural Ireland, the Deputy knows that when one ploughs a field, seeds it and rolls it, one has to let it grow.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is the same with trying to get an economy moving, coming from the depths of where we were to a point where we can see real improvement. I agree that many places in provincial Ireland have not seen the return to growth we would like. In Kerry, there has been a drop in the live register of 34% since the regional action plan was introduced. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, introduced a...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We followed this with introducing regional action plans which are focused on both the strengths and weaknesses of each area, including the Deputy's. Hospitality, the Wild Atlantic Way, broadband development, road infrastructure, water infrastructure and wastewater treatment are all opportunities to make areas more attractive for investment.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Although not every crossroads will have FDI, there is no reason that small and medium enterprises cannot follow through with the LEOs on establishing businesses, recruiting people more easily and having access to credit that was never there before. Two indigenous Kerry companies have gone global, namely, the Kerry Group, which has established another investment in Kildare which is an...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The improvements of all these facilities are very important. While the Deputy's question is well meant, employment is growing in his area and the live register numbers have fallen because of new jobs being created.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We want it to continue into the future.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is Deputy Martin's usual spiel every week. For the Deputy's information, in case he did not realise it, this Government was the first to appoint a senior Minister for children. This Government was the first to set up a Department of children. This Government was the only Government to hold a referendum of the people giving children their rights as citizens.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: This Government has children as a central priority of its focus.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept it, from Deputy Martin or from anybody else. I do not accept it - I do not care what model the Deputy is reading from - that professional assessment of children is not necessary to determine what their particular challenge is.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The focus has to be on meeting the needs of the child.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin can twist the words any way he likes. I do not accept Deputy Martin's weekly rant about detachment.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: This Government made children the focus of political responsibility, with their own Department, their own senior Minister and their own funding, and what is involved here is to determine what are the needs of each individual child.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept from Deputy Martin, or from anybody else, that a child who has a problem should not have a professional assessment of what that challenge is.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has circled all the issues today. It is not his usual specific attack. He mentioned that the Government has failed to deal with the big issues-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----such as fixing the economic mess that we inherited, putting our people back to work, and the situation where the rate of unemployment has gone from 15.2% to 8.9% and is heading downwards.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We had a situation where this crowd locked us out from all the markets and the interest rates where 15%, and now they are less than 2%.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan's, intention, on behalf of the Government, is to have the deficit wiped out by 2018. The national debt is falling rapidly towards European norms and by the way, for the information of Deputy Adams, 130,000 jobs have been created in the private sector. These are the big issues that Deputy Adams says the Government has failed on.