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- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have already suggested that the Deputy should get his spokesperson to submit some topical issues on social welfare appeals.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The next time the Deputy comes back in to deal with the Ombudsman for Children, I hope he remembers that his spokesman welcomed this, but the Deputy did not ask for time on it, but he continues to waste the time of the Houses on something he has already accepted.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will respond to Deputy Kevin Humphreys. I will see to it that the review is published and will return to him on the other items he mentioned. I have no problem in listening to the passion of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. I hope he listens in return.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Since the Deputy has moved to his current position - move he has - he has changed his tune.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy speaks about a lovey-dovey attitude here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is the Dáil, the people's House. Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joe Higgins are perfectly entitled to give out to me if they wish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are perfectly entitled to do so and make their comments on, as Deputy Peter Mathews calls them, the consulting corporate doctors.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is often an articulate and vehement speaker and loses the listening mode to others. I have known him for a long time-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and I respect his work in finance for so many years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: However, now that Deputy Peter Mathews has become an acquaintance of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett I am perfectly entitled to engage with him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am as open to meeting the constituents Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett mentioned as I am to meeting the corporate consultancy doctors to whom Deputy Peter Mathews referred because it is all open and recorded, unlike what happened in the past.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business is No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Ombudsman Act 1980 (section 4(10)) Order 2013; and No. 2, Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and adjourn on the adjournment of Private Members’...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: When the remit of the Ombudsman was being extended last year, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the Ombudsman for Children sought to have the remit of the Ombudsman for Children extended in a similar manner. Accordingly, the Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2012 amended the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002 to align the remits of the two Ombudsmen over public bodies. The Ombudsman's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: That would be a good speech on the back of a lorry in Mulranny.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Thank you, Deputy Mathews. I realise it is in Dáil Éireann. Where was the clearing house for the 300,000 people taken out in terms of being liable for the universal social charge, USC? Was it the financial services sector? Where was the clearing house that dealt with the Magdalen laundry women? Was it the financial services sector?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Where was the clearing house for those who said we could not have more income tax increases? The fact is the Government listens to the people to balance the situation where jobs can be created, while the most vulnerable get the opportunity, in so far as is humanly possible, to have comforts and services provided for them by the State. I do not accept the Deputy’s assertion that the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I hear the very people with difficulties every day and week, as I receive e-mails and letters from them. I hope in some small way that I can act, as the Deputy calls it, as a clearing house for some of them. The Government, across its spectrum, represents an attempt to look after those who are vulnerable, who should have a clearing house to see to it that their old age pensions are not cut,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Would the Deputy not welcome this? I met some of his supporters in Killiney the other night, but I could not understand what they were saying. I understand they were operating on his instructions. They were a sort of clearing house group under the trees.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett seems to be under the assumption that only financial corporate giants have the opportunity to engage with the Government. It is far from that. They have to deal with the full spectrum of society. I make no apology where 30,000 people are employed - men and women, some of whom are from the Deputy’s constituency - that they should have the opportunity to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I ask the Deputy to explain that point.