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- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7, motion re membership of committee; No. 8, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision 2005/681/JHA establishing the European Police College, CEPOL, back from committee; and No. 19, statements on the Government’s priorities for the year ahead (resumed). It is...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Bill will be published in this session and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White, is conducting comprehensive discussions and consultation on the contract with doctors and members of the medical profession from all over the country.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will have to advise Deputy Adams on those later. I do not have the information here with me. The Children First Bill was first committed in 1999 and again in 2009. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, informs me that the Bill is complete and will be brought to Cabinet very soon, in this session.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No.2) Bill will be brought forward in this session. I do not want to speak about the content of a Bill. I have advised the Chief Whip that next week we should have statements from Members on the construction and housing sector. This is a real problem. The Government will be able to finalise its strategy across the construction sector shortly after...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government has cleared this Bill and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is working out details. It will come before the House in this session and it is not far away.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: That will come before the House in this session.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: In Deputy Healy-Rae’s part of the country would they call fermented hay silage?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I was not aware, until Deputy Gerry Adams made the comment, that €500 million had been paid to consultants by Irish Water.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It was not the first time the Deputy was out on some of his figures. I am quite sure that even he, despite the fact that he does not want any charge for any service, agrees that there is movement, given that the live register has fallen below 400,000 for the first time since 2009 and that we are now below the European average for unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: We know about the Deputy. I am quite sure Deputy Gerry Adams is aware that 61,000 new jobs were created in the past 12 months and that two thirds of them were in firms less than five years old. I am quite sure he supports the fact that the education system has one of the highest participation rates among OECD countries and that the young people emerging from it are well able to meet a range...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am quite sure also that when Deputy Gerry Adams goes to his constituency and talks to people who have been long-term unemployed or those who have been short-term unemployed and are now in the world of work, they will tell him about personal dignity and the contribution they can make. I do not accept at all that we should be static and stay with what we were left with when we were elected...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: What I want to do is create situations where more people can find work that will provide an opportunity for them to develop their careers. Deputy Gerry Adams was unemployed for a long number of years -----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: ----- yet he seems to appear in locations around the world just like that.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "No." I was not sure whether the Deputy was going to propose that Anglo Irish should have been made a pillar bank, if one was to follow through on his dissertation. There are two things he should bear in mind. First, the fact that Mr. Ross invested in Bank of Ireland meant there was less of a capitalisation requirement for the taxpayer. Second, there will be...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out, we cannot have a functioning economy without functioning banks. When the Government was elected to office, we had a banking system which was completely dysfunctional, had gone off the rails and required radical restructuring. This happened with the putting in place of the pillar bank system. The Deputy asked if the Minister for Finance would be sacked. The answer to...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I reiterate that Deputy Martin will not be disappointed because we will publish the business model before the local elections.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday Deputy Martin said we wanted to put universal health insurance out beyond the next general election. Three weeks ago he said we wanted to put this out beyond the local elections. It is not so on both counts.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are not afraid to face into challenges that were left untouched for years with the result that this country was sent into an economic abyss. We will have it published before the local elections, but not before St. Patrick's Day.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "No". Deputy Adams is the leader of his party and his party has a different view.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It seems to me as though Sinn Féin does not want to pay for anything, does not want to have any charge imposed for any service, and wants nothing to do with the European scene. From a Sinn Féin perspective, everything in life is free and wonderful. Unfortunately, that is not reality.