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- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is different. These are our people. These are the future of our country. They all have a talent and an opportunity, and we want to let that flourish. That is what this is about. The day we exit this bailout will be a different day for Ireland. We will put the shutters up behind us and never let it happen again, like the legacy and the economic mess that fell down on our people-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----through incompetence, greed and everything else that applied in a culture we never want to go back to.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a7, motion re membership of committee; No. b7, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 14, Financial Resolutions 2014 from the Minister for Finance, resuming on Resolution No. 8. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. a7 and b7 shall be decided without debate; and the following arrangements shall apply in...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The position is that, as the budget resolutions went through yesterday, the HSE must now prepare its service plan within 21 days to give effect to the plans it will implement based on that budget. Obviously, that will come back to the Minister, and he must bring it to Cabinet to have it signed off. They can then get on with spending the moneys allocated.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is a disgraceful comment.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is a good flow of rhetoric, and I will prove the Deputy wrong. During the three years prior to the Government's election we lost 250,000 jobs, or 7,000 jobs a month. The economic mess left behind by Fianna Fáil over many years has had to be cleared up. We have stabilised it-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and we now create 3,000 jobs a month. This is progress. It is not where we want to be.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The live register has declined for 15 consecutive months and the unemployment rate has decreased from 15.5% to 13.5%. We are creating jobs for young people. If Deputy McDonald states the JobBridge scheme for young graduates is a Mickey Mouse operation she should go and speak to people from every constituency. Young graduates were confined to the dole queues but because we have reformed the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: How dare she insult their intelligence and motivation? How dare she insult their right to go and have a job? How dare she, with her Sinn Féin antics, want to confine our young people to dole queues in perpetuity - to give them taxpayers' money and confine them to the dole queues?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: What we have done over the past 12 months is to create 34,000 new jobs, many for young people, and I want to increase this. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has set out his target for next year of 50,000 new jobs. Many of these will be taken up by young people. We are very proud of them. How dare Deputy McDonald stand up in the House of Parliament and insult our young people and state they...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----when clearly they lead on to opportunity and employment, which is what Deputy McDonald should be putting forward? Not one constructive suggestion from her.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Donnelly is normally very constructive in his comments when he has the opportunity to lead the Technical Group.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: He fully understands from the constituency he represents that young people have a right to have a chance to get a job, a career and an opportunity. It seems as if these parties want to confine them to the dole queues for the rest of their lives.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste and the Labour Party-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----have been very clear about the position of the Government in wanting to provide opportunities for people to get into the world of work. One must provide an incentive for this. The Minister, Deputy Burton, has pointed out that it is not the way to go that when a young lad or girl leaves secondary school they suddenly end up in the rut of unemployment which ends in a tunnel of despair....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of course, I acknowledge that the budgetary resolutions went through yesterday and that the changes made at the highest level will apply. However, I repeat that the State pension, the carers' schemes, the free travel scheme and the free television licence scheme have not been touched. The fuel allowance has not been changed.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no change in the net income of pensioners as a result of this budget, unlike what Fianna Fáil did when it cut the widow's pension, blind pension and invalidity pension by over €8 a week in budget 2010 for people under 65 years.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil also cut the disability allowance across the board by €8 a week, without regard to means testing.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil also cut core social welfare rates by €16 per week or 8% in budgets 2010 and 2011 without discussion. At least this Fine Gael-Labour Party Government has maintained core social welfare rates. I remind the Deputy that Fianna Fáil's four year plan which he is now disregarding intended to cut €1.5 billion from social welfare services. Therefore, the Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: In respect of medical cards, it is important that we find out the true position on how many medical cards are redundant, how many migrant workers have left the country, how many medical card holders have died-----