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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would like to think the Deputy would come in here some day and say he had three proposals to put forward that would impact on employment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Has the Deputy ever suggested that the reconstruction of houses would be good so as to get tradespeople back working or asked what incentives would encourage that? The Government has done that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would like to think the Deputy might come up with an initiative like the living city initiative, for places like Dún Laoghaire with older houses in need of reconstruction, that would provide employment. The Deputy makes a point that is a red herring about us wanting to keep people on the dole and I understand him doing that. When Fine Gael had its annual think-in, I was speaking to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Genuine assistance is offered to them to help them get to the next step or level. This is being done completely differently from how it was done before. We recognise that everybody has a contribution to make and that many of these young people have a talent or flair in a particular area. Some of them have considerable experience, but have lost out. It is a case of providing motivation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4, 5 and 6 together. The Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy last met on 5 November 2012. At this meeting, the Cabinet committee considered an extensive work programme that has been under way during 2013 and which included work on preparing the climate action and low carbon development Bill; preparation of national and sectoral...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams raised the question of a poverty impact report. I will ask the Minister for Social Protection to carry out such an exercise. We will publish it in due course and debate it here. In the last year there has been an increase of 33,800 in the number of people in employment and of 20,000 in the number of people in full-time employment. Many of those people are on social protection...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: It met three times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I heard the Deputy on about the Tories the other day.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I disagree with the Deputy. The situation left for the Government to deal with was like climbing the Cliffs of Moher in the dark. We hope on 15 December to exit the bailout programme, but we still have many challenges ahead. In my earlier reply I stated the health committee had met three times to deal with the confusion that had arisen from the centralising of the assessment system for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy never listened to anyone.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: The health committee met three times to deal with health issues and actually called in the HSE to ask it about the position on dealing with the exceptional cases of refusals of medical cards and appliances as highlighted on television and radio and in the newspapers. It asked how it would sort out a system that would work effectively and in a caring way for those who needed medical cards. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins is right to refer to those aged between 22 and 25, but what do they want? They want an opportunity to have a decent job, to better themselves and get to a different place if they are unemployed. The fact is that the number on the live register, which was almost at 500,000 when this Government took office, has now gone below 400,000. This year, 113,000 people left the live...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Unfortunately for Deputy Higgins, core payment rates in social protection have been protected. In the recent budget, the Minister for Finance provided €500 million in incentives for small businesses to improve and develop opportunities to take on extra staff. Today the Minister for Education and Skills attended the first meeting of SOLAS, which replaces FÁS. I like to think we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: They are asked what they would like to do in terms of an internship to better themselves.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Why is it that all that people such as Deputy Higgins and Deputy Boyd Barrett want to do is to keep people on the unemployed lists?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: I never hear a constructive suggestion from either Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: Instead, they speak about austerity and cutbacks and the fact that there is no hope. Has either Deputy ever given a constructive suggestion other than to crucify those who earn higher salaries?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: They simply suggest that by some magic formula the country will function. I would like to hear the Deputies engage with young people aged between 22 and 25 and give them their views on opportunities for them. What are those opportunities? As far as the Government is concerned, we want to engage with those people, look at where their talent or flair lies and where their contribution can be-----