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- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: What the Government is doing is introducing a range of opportunities for lone parents and others-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to be retrained and upskilled to achieve financial independence by getting a job that pays-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----either through the jobseeker's allowance transitional payment, the back-to-work family dividend or the re-rating of FIS.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: These are all designed to assist people to get away from social protection dependency and into the world of work.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It was always the case with Fianna Fáil every time it came to a budget that the people concerned were thrown a few more quid to buy them off.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: In this case, we need to transform what we are doing in getting people back into the world of work, including lone parents. Many of them have said to me that this is what they want to do.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: They want to be able to find a job.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy may well laugh at lone parents if he wants to, but many of them want to move from social protection dependency to financial independence by having an opportunity to go out to work.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reforms to the schemes are designed to help them to do this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: When we launched JobsPlus or the jobseeker's allowance, it was perfectly obvious that we had one of the highest rates of jobless households in Europe. That is one of the causes of the financial difficulties people get into.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reforms are designed to help lone parents-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to achieve financial independence by upskilling and following through to a job that pays and benefits their families.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I notice that the salaries of special advisers in Northern Ireland have increased from Stg£90,000 to Stg£110,000 and I did not hear the Deputy comment on this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform received claims for increases in salary from a number of Ministers and ruled on them based on experience and competence. Many of the claims were rejected at the levels sought and ruled on by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have dealt with the question on lone parents. The reforms are being introduced to move people from social protection dependency and give them the opportunity to achieve financial independence by getting a job that pays in their own interests and those of their families.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have one of the highest rates of jobless households in Europe, which is the cause of the difficulties for thousands of people in terms of the availability of finance at the end of the week to look after their families, households and themselves. The path out of it, in which the Deputy does not believe, is by giving people jobs and opportunities because work can pay.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The reforms are to the disregard to let people have an opportunity to upskill, retrain, get a job and have financial independence. We have created 80,000 new jobs in the past few years, while 40,000 new jobs will be created this year. I hope many of these jobs will go to lone parents who can move into the world of work and have a job that will give them financial independence in order that...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is interesting that Sinn Féin is by now far and away the best resourced party in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Everybody else seems to have to own up, rightly, about from where the money comes. When the Deputy levels accusations, I do not know whether they are true or false. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has ruled on the appropriate levels for claims for increases. He has shot down most of them and determined what the levels should be.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The advisers do a very important job-----