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Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the publication of the Bill, but I can advise the Deputy of the progress being made towards its realisation.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: A great deal of work has been done on the national dementia strategy, and the plan has been published and launched. It represents a comprehensive analysis of the scale of the challenge. We can predict reasonably accurately the figures for the coming years, which spell out the scale of the challenge we will have to meet. I gave the House some of the figures which show how the Government has...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 37, Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 12a, National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 - instruction to committee; No. 38, National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 1, Statute Law Revision Bill 2015 - amendments from the Seanad. It...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: A Cabinet sub-committee meeting on the construction sector and housing will take place next week. I read the report from Dublin City Council and the figure the Deputy mentioned came as a surprise to me. I intend to follow through on the matter. We have had some very detailed discussions on housing, homelessness, social housing and making voids available for families. A package being put...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's question is, "Yes" on one condition.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: It has to request it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance has made clear on more than one occasion in his correspondence with the Central Bank that if a request comes from it to legislate in this regard, the Government will do so.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is because the Central Bank is independent in the way it does its business. We have already made it clear that if it requires legislation, it will be made available to it. It is ask and you shall receive.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams mentioned delivering only for the elite. He consistently comes up with the nonsense that the Government forgets about the ordinary citizens in our country who walk into the offices and constituency clinics of every Deputy on this side of the House just as they do in respect of everybody else. Unlike Deputy Adams, the focus of Government has been-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----to create opportunities and jobs for people who want to-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----earn money, have careers and contribute to their localities, communities and lives.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is measurable by the 104,000 new jobs created since late 2011. It is not enough but 40,000 more jobs will be created this year.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: A further 40,000 jobs will be created next year and again in 2017 and in 2018. This will eliminate the possibility of any person not having a job if they wish to work here. Everybody who wants to work will have the opportunity to do so.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy well knows, a well managed economy means-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----we can move on from all of the difficult decisions which our people made in the past number of years.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: We are now through that gap and in a very different position than we were heretofore-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----with unemployment falling, interest rates below 2%, opportunities for investment and export stronger than ever and consumer sentiment the strongest in almost ten years.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: We are not where we want to be yet but it is very much in the right direction. Sinn Féin continually advises people to not pay the property tax, water charges or for health services.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Adams believe-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----people think they can live on fresh air? This country has never been afraid to accept a challenge, and we are measuring up to this one and heading very much in the right direction.