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- Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will come back to the Deputy on that.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is one of the biggest building projects ever undertaken in the country which will hopefully provide the very best level of care and attention for children for the island of Ireland over the next 50 years. I admit there was certainly slippage during the past 12 months about getting the boards together for this. The person the Deputy mentioned is a person of exceptional competence. The...
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is a timeline and that will be included in the response that will be given to him. There are timelines set for the planning application and for the approval, hopefully, of planning permission and construction dates. These have been referred to by the Minister already. There was slippage in the beginning and some time was lost but I hope that we can have an effective response from the...
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is an important Bill. It has been through the Seanad and is awaiting Report Stage in the Dáil. The Whip will let the Deputy know when it can be arranged.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: As a nation, we have worked hard to set up an ecosystem, particularly in the digital sector, and the message should go out that Deputy Adams and Sinn Féin want a 40% capital gains tax rate. Were that ever to apply, there would be no start-ups.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It will not apply because Sinn Féin will not have the opportunity.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: While Sinn Féin's idea to increase employers PRSI literally is a tax on jobs, Deputy Adams comes into this Chamber and speaks of the necessity to create jobs. Sinn Féin has opposed every single measure of the last three years and now it conveniently forgets all of that.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It conveniently forgets all that.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin has no idea. It just pockets the savings and states it is getting on with it. Sinn Féin chooses to ignore what has been done. Its budget proposal for this year is a carbon copy of what it submitted for the 2012 and 2013 budgets, namely, crippling higher income taxes that would mean a serious loss of place in this country in respect of entrepreneurship or businesses...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The reason the Government always publishes the medium-term fiscal statement each year is to show people the breakdown of the adjustment for each year up to 2015.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It publishes it in order that people can see the steps our country is taking to deal with our public financial problems, to restore our economic good health, to get out of this bailout and economically to fly independently again.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is not being done for anyone in the European Commission.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is being done because the people gave the Government a mandate to sort out this problem and I am aware Deputy Adams does not like to hear the ESRI state that Ireland is doing well.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: He does not like to hear the European Commission state that Ireland is making progress.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: He hates to see people coming in here who independently conclude this is a country into which they should invest because it is energetic, has the technology and is moving in the digital space.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is the place for the young people of the world to see as a model-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----in which, when moving out of difficulties, one can create a real future for all the people.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: However, this will not happen with the Sinn Féin policies or Sinn Féin tactics.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They would close it down and for 30 years-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----Deputy Adams's party never did anything substantial to help the economy, North or South. Deputy Adams should change his tune too.