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- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Deputy got the data mixed up.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the publication of the Data Sharing Bill but I will advise the Deputy as progress is made on it, so he will be fully informed line by line.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Social Welfare Bill will be discussed next week.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for it. However, I remind the Deputy that the first full commercial licence for a lending bank in a number of years was issued recently by the Central Bank. It is applicable to firms. It is not a mainline bank but is for those who use technology produced by a company, Dell, located in the Deputy's constituency. It is one of a number of groups interested in acquiring...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have no date for the Noise Nuisance Bill. All is silent on that front.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are the figures given to me. They may not be correct, but I was talking about incentive.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There might be other benefits.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I was talking about incentive. The figures might not be correct, but I am talking about incentives.
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This Government has just passed the half way point in its term of office. Yesterday's budget has advanced three vital goals for the Government in the remainder of its term: first, to continue to correct the public finances so that Ireland can successfully exit the bailout on 15 December, signalling the end of the bailout era; second, to continue to create more jobs and accelerate the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: For the young graduates Deputy McDonald and the chairperson of Labour Youth were talking about, those who are entrepreneurs can start their own businesses under the young entrepreneur scheme and avail of mentoring to start those businesses-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and they can get State assistance. If somebody in their mid-20s has been out of work for 15 months, he or she can now start a business and have up to €40,000 in tax-free income based on the two years prior to the setting up of those businesses. It is a case of providing the motivation and the opportunity for people to work. A case came in to me this morning of a married man...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This country has always beaten adversity by being practical about working our way out of it. This budget is about exiting the bailout caused by the people opposite. I recall the press conference when my predecessor as Taoiseach, Mr. Cowen, and the late lamented Mr. Brian Lenihan walked off the stage and were replaced by the troika-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and our sovereignty and our economic independence were handed away. This Government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party is focused on retrieving that economic sovereignty. Our young people will have the opportunity in a new country to have work, careers and opportunities.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is what this is about. We ring-fenced money and places so the young people of Wicklow, Dublin and the entire country will have those opportunities for their ambition, talent and creativity to flourish.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I regard the issue of human rights, as referred to, as the right to work and the right to have an opportunity to work. That is what good government should be about. The number on the live register was nearly 500,000 just a short time ago. Because of the reforms and the changes brought about, and because of the labour activation measures-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that has fallen consistently for 15 months and we expect it to go below 400,000 before the end of the year.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Many of those are young people. I regard every person as having the right to work. I agree with the Deputy that those who decide they do not want to work are in a different situation.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is true that in the Department of Social Protection different people have been treated differently over the years, from young people through the different categories that apply in society and right up to senior citizens. They are all treated in different ways depending on what category they find themselves in. I believe the changes that are made here are really in the interest of...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to see the new Intreo offices that are being rolled out by the Minister, Deputy Burton, where there are group interviews, where mentoring is available from small businesses and where there are people who will say, "I have an opportunity for you. If you do this education course you can be involved in retrofitting, since you worked in construction and you can change direction." This is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Why is it that, for years, there was never engagement with them? When they signed on they were left to sign on.