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

Enda Kenny: It was the Ballaghadereen bypass - one of the few that went ahead last year. The point is that the company brought back six engineers. It is a very small thing but it is important for those people. It is not a case of not recognising the fact that many people have left. There is a delegation in the US talking to the public representatives in Washington, DC, about the undocumented Irish....

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

Enda Kenny: We are retaining the 12.5% corporation tax. As the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, has reminded me, the potential for on-line trade in the retail and other sectors is enormous. Only a very small percentage of that is generated in Ireland. That will rise to serious numbers in billions of euro over the next period. In respect of the Deputy's...

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

Enda Kenny: I am talking about SMEs. I mentioned the start-your-own-business scheme whereby young people can start their own businesses, unincorporated and with a two-year exemption from income tax up to €40,000. That is a real incentive. To encourage innovation, the key recommendations for the research and development tax credit have been implemented. These relate to the outsourcing of...

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

Enda Kenny: I visited a major firm there, Vistakon.

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

Enda Kenny: All of the sophisticated equipment there, the robotics and the software, was developed and designed by young Irish engineers in that region. The sophistication of what they do is incredible. One of the most serious statements made in this country was made by Intel.

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

Enda Kenny: The new Quark chip on the Galileo board is marked "Designed in Ireland", for the first time in 40 years. That has the capacity to provide enormous potential for our young creators. Government wants to be in that space, assisting young people with their ideas, proposals and requests. We cannot do it all at once but these are serious decisions that will affect in a small way particular...

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

Enda Kenny: From a European perspective the youth guarantee scheme starts in January and the programme must be prepared before the end of the year. The Minister for Social Protection is anxious to move on this as quickly as possible, with the extra €14 million. Many of those 66,000 are back in education. I am not sure whether the Deputy has those figures in front of him.

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

Enda Kenny: I attended a Cabinet discussion on this matter this morning. I would like to take a few Ministers from the main Departments and focus on the extent and capacity of what we can actually put in place.

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

Enda Kenny: I have read out the list.

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

Enda Kenny: The figure was 18,000 last year.

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

Enda Kenny: Obviously, a lot more than last year.

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

Enda Kenny: As part of the European Presidency we put together a budget of €960 billion for the EU, a part of which is the €6 billion for youth unemployment. Of course that will not do the business. There is no point leaving it lying around until 2020 when young people will have moved on, in respect of their age and what they are at. We want to rise to the challenge of providing as many...

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

Enda Kenny: It has gone over 20,000 people, 60% of whom end up in full-time employment, which is a very good thing. We could have a longer discussion about this in the House at an appropriate time.

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

Enda Kenny: All the Deputy wants is for me to give him a figure so he can come back and tell me we did not reach the figure, whatever it might be. I know that is what the Deputy is at.

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

Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned we want to provide the maximum number possible through all the different schemes.

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

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's premise. I ask him to consider where we were when we came in here just over two and a half years ago. The country was blocked out of the international markets. Interest rates were 15% and rising. We had neither word nor integrity. Ireland had gone over a cliff. We have had to make many difficult decisions since then. Where are we now? Interest rates have...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Deputy's attempt at derangement, waffling or mumbling speaks for itself. The Department of Social Protection pays €75 million a year for free travel. Whether the Deputy likes it or not-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----contributory and non-contributory pensions in this country for our senior citizens are among the highest in Europe. The ESRI, which, for the Deputy's information, is a completely independent body, has said that since the bank guarantee and all of the adjustments that have taken place, elderly people have lost about 1.4% in all of those adjustments. Deputy Daly might think that her...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Does she think it is not right and proper that the contribution made by these people-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----over past generations should be reflected in favourable treatment in the way the country looks at them in terms of tax, the universal social charge, USC, or exemptions in respect of PRSI payment?