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Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is expected in this session.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The symphysiotomy question is being dealt with by the Government. The Cabinet decided this morning to appoint Judge Yvonne Murphy, who is a respected judge, to engage with the insurance companies about putting together a fund from which women whose lives have been affected by symphysiotomy will be dealt with. I understand that the Minister for Health and the Minister of State, Deputy...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is receiving priority. Significant proposals are being discussed in the Department at the moment.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: There is no date for the publication of that Bill.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and the improving position. Some people might not want to recognise that but there are young people abroad who are gaining experience and who will have the opportunity to come back. For those who left because they were disillusioned with our country and with politics in our country or they felt let down-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----I hope today's CSO figures of 58,000 jobs created last year are an indication of us heading in the right direction. I read headlines in the newspapers suggesting that all of those putting in the water meters are from other countries. I think ten of the 400 came back from Sasana to be employed here but people put different interpretations on these things. I know about emigration and I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin asked a couple of questions about the ESM. I am certain about a few things. I am certain of the decision of the European Council of 29 June which stated that the ESM would have the possibility of direct recapitalisation. I am also certain that cannot apply until the various elements of banking union are in place. They will not be in place until at least the second half of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and the political decision, after many years, to enter into negotiations with the United States holds the potential to create several million jobs.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins does not believe that. He has his own philosophy to put the entire world at work in the next 12 months, but I regret to tell him that does not work either. As a small country and as a reflection of some of the things that happen, I am glad to see an improving situation in this country where 58,000 jobs have been created in the past 12 months.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: They are real people doing real jobs. They are not languishing in the rut of disillusionment or on the unemployed lists-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and it is political decisions that change that. I met a young man in Waterford the other day who went to Australia, worked for 14 months doing two and three jobs when he could, came back with €100,000 and set up his own business, and he was very happy to do so. It was his choice to earn money where he could, do two or three jobs where he could get them and come back with that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I hope that many of the young people who feel they had to leave by choice will have the opportunity to come back in the next few years. We hope that might be the case but Europe, dealing with 500 million people, must make difficult decisions. Am I happy with 26 million out of work? No. Am I happy with 6 million young people unemployed? No. Am I going to do something about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes - make political decisions that will change the opportunities and the career chances they have. That is what good politics is about. That is what the people judge us on. Did we do the job or did we not? Are we worthy of being given a continued mandate and trust? Governments come and Governments go but if Deputy Higgins ever has a chance, when he has the mandate he should use it in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is wrong when she says the reason we have the fifth highest direct payments to children is that we have a poor quality of public services.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: She is wrong because there has been a long tradition in this country of direct cash payments to families. That is the reason we have that process continuing over very many years. I do not agree with the Deputy when she runs down the very many fine people who work in the public services-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and in our front-line services who give of their best and work long hours with a great degree of commitment and integrity.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy believes she should run them down, that is her business. When I say the exit from the bailout programme is important in the sense of reclaiming our sovereignty, I mean that it gives the Government, on behalf of the people, greater flexibility in the things we do. We have signed up to the two pack and the six pack as part of the European process, as other countries have done....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am referring to their capacity to have information to deal with potential bomb threats, for example. That information strategy is the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner and the Chief Constable. From that point of view, most countries are anxious to move on. Chancellor Merkel made it perfectly clear that we want to focus on the future and that there should not be a cessation of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Political decisions have to be made to change that very situation. Does the Deputy think anyone involved in politics, of whatever party, is happy with the situation where 26 million people are out of work in the European Union? Does he think anyone in politics is happy that 6 million young people under the age of 25 are unemployed? The Deputy seems to think this can be suddenly changed by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has asked quite a lot of questions in his contribution. He is correct that €60 million is available under the direct recapitalisation from the European Stability Mechanism, ESM. It is well recognised that a €60 billion capacity for financial assistance is included in that mechanism. The single supervisory mechanism is a precondition for direct bank...