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Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Sherlock is a poor wing man for the main man.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I will take it further.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I, too, welcome the opportunity to discuss this important initiative brought forward by Government. Like other speakers, as a constructive parliamentarian newly in Opposition I believe it behoves us all to try to be constructive in terms of working through the initiatives and ideas that come forward. As my former colleague in the Seanad, Deputy Joe McHugh, said earlier, we should not try to...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Notwithstanding their abhorrence of the notion of continued capitalisation of banks, the presentation of the strategic investment bank in the programme for Government seems to have satisfied their concerns about bailing out the banks and not burning bondholders. However, that is for another discussion. We all know the importance of getting our banks functioning. One of the key things the...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We are not going to get that. We are going to get a continuance of the three card trick. They have now turned jobs into the three card trick. They presented them prior to the election, dangled them around and waved them under different agendas but, like the punter at the races, when the money is put down the queen disappears. The jobs have disappeared, sadly, on this occasion.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: However, there will be further opportunities for the Government.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Fine Gael has missed Deputy Mathews's initiative on banking. Perhaps they will take it up at some point in the future.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: By any standards, this is a modest initiative aimed at stimulating the economy. I hope it works. The focus on the tourism sector is a good idea. For some time I have believed the tourism industry is one of the great unsung heroes of foreign investment. We spent much time in the past talking about foreign direct investment and various initiatives in that area. Tourism has epitomised this....

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: It is a fact.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: How many €2 would one have to save to buy an extra dinner? That is how it will be measured, by money in people's pockets.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I eat most days, thank you.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: This may, ultimately, become a subsidy for the entertainment sector. Sadly, many of these operators are under pressure and they have told us about that. I am concerned that the reduction will not be passed on to the consumer. Even if it is, it will not make an appreciable or measurable difference to their capacity to spend more. At best, the reduction is a gimmick. There were ways of...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I do not know if the Minister for Transport, Deputy Varadkar, intends to retain it or if the new measure will be added to it. It was a considerable incentive to increase traffic, based on 2009 levels. Perhaps we will get further clarity on that. With regard to capital expenditure measures, the Government talks about shovel-ready projects. This gives movement to the retrofit programme,...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: The same should happen with regard to the €75 million set aside for the transport Vote and the €60 million for local roads. Where will that come from? There is not new money. Of the more than €135 million that has been earmarked, some €106 is coming from existing programmes and projects. We would like a list of the projects that will be shelved as a result of this...

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Yesterday's jobs initiative announcement made much of the €136 million the Government intends to spend on capital projects. It has been idenfified in the small print that €106 million of the has been reallocated.

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Yes. When does the Taoiseach intend to come before the House and identify the projects from which the money is being taken, which assisted the Government in making its announcement yesterday?

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Taoiseach publish the list of projects from which the money is being taken?

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: There are a couple of spare seats on this side, Deputy.

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Taoiseach not hold parliamentary meetings anymore?

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: It is one for the parliamentary party meeting.