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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----an outrageous capacity to say that people insult our young people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: What I said was that Deputy Higgins was giving the impression that they should be left to languish on the dole queues. I do not believe that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The responsibility of Government is to open the doors of opportunity for business.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: One cannot do it with interest rates at 15% when we were blocked out of the international markets and when we had neither word nor reputation. That has been changed. I would like Deputy Bord Barrett some day to say how, if the banks all collapsed, he thinks that the economy would function. Perhaps that is what he wants, given his warped political philosophy. I do not accept from him that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy cannot argue with the Central Statistics Office facts and figures of the number of people who are at work. He cannot argue with the fact that the live register has declined for 16 consecutive months.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would be the first to say to him that people have emigrated from the country and continue to do so. I resent that they feel that they have to leave. The Government has got to do the very best that it can in meeting that challenge. No more than Deputy Higgins's view of employment, I hope that, when the living city initiative is transferred out to Dún Laoghaire and that the pre-1915...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and the society where he lives and where he goes around spouting-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----his individual political philosophy every week that people cannot work, that people should work, and that he has some magic wand that can transform this into a situation where one can have a couple of hundred thousand real jobs created just like that. Life, unfortunately, is not like that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: That is a major investment in strategic infrastructure and a lot of jobs will come from it, as Deputy Martin will find down in his own country before too long.

Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 3, Local Government Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the next fortnightly Friday, for the purposes of Standing Orders 88(2) and 117A, shall be Friday, 8 November 2013, the time and date by which notice of a committee report or Bill in connection with that sitting shall be received...

Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Friday, 8 November will be on a Private Members' Bill.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I was recently in Blanchardstown, which I understand is in Deputy Higgins's constituency. I had the privilege of opening a new data content storage facility with investors from Ireland and Canada. The people working at that facility, in the Deputy's constituency, are real people. They go to work every day, they earn their living and they pay all their taxes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not seem to think that is real. In fact, he does not seem to want that kind of investment, despite the fact that reports on the area of data content and storage capacity indicate increases of between 15% and 17% year on year until 2017. That means the extra space in the aforementioned facility will be filled before long not only with equipment but also with people working in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: He said these are Mickey Mouse jobs. Mickey Mouse seems to be around these corridors a lot these days. Deputy Higgins is not the only one to have caught him in a trap.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's use of the description by Paul Murphy, MEP, of the JobBridge scheme as scambridge. Paul Murphy, MEP, is yet to be elected by the people. Deputy Higgins has been elected and he is entitled to speak in this House. If he speaks to the young graduates who now have jobs in his constituency they will give him a very different version of the opportunity to work...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: His native county has never had a better year for the hospitality sector and it wants more of that. One would think that kind of investment would be recognised by the Deputy as an advantage for the country, our economy and our people because these are real jobs.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: He does not seem to want that. I reject completely his assertion about Mickey Mouse opportunities. These are opportunities for young people to get a start on the ladder and if he is like the promoters of the party in front of him in wanting them to languish on the dole queues with no opportunities, responses or incentives, that is not the space the Government is in or the space I am in. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: We will shortly produce the action plan for jobs quarterly report. The Deputy will see the facts of life exposed there both in terms of the successes and failures. I am more interested in the outcome of these rather than just saying I have implemented a percentage of so many actions. Deputy Adams continually refers to emigration. He seeks to address it with a Sinn Féin proposal for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have the privilege of meeting people in different locations - not that I travel abroad too often - but I am very happy to meet people who have gone because of the requirement to get greater experience or because their company sends them. I meet the people who have left because they felt they had no hope here. They are the people we need to encourage to come back. I was very pleased last...