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Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have the opportunity and the privilege of meeting so many people who want to invest in this country and create jobs here. They want the highest quality of students to emerge from our second level schools and go on to employment or third level institutions.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: For that reason, the people who stand in front of our classes are absolutely fundamental for the future of our country. The young students who are starting in second year and in the junior certificate need the training of the teachers to be able to deal with the new implications of this. We need to consider the disruption that applies in a practical sense. Parents are now expected to...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy might ask me to intervene following the ballot in which the agreement was rejected by ASTI members, but that is not my function. There were six months of negotiations involving all of these people.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: All of these issues were known. The ASTI membership has made its decision. I am disappointed that it happened.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have to say I respect the teaching profession. I am always enthused by international people speaking about the confidence of our young people. The teaching profession is a fundamental part of that triangle. At this time of economic challenge for our country, I ask the ASTI to reflect seriously on its decision to withdraw from all meetings outside school hours, to refuse to participate in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I assure the Deputy that the Haddington Road agreement will not be renegotiated.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Far from her glib comment about washing my hands of things here-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----this was a central focus of the Government for six months.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: It has been responded to by 300,000 public servants.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have read Professor Mody's comments. Commentators are great. I understand the Deputy responded to him on a television programme. We are borrowing €1 billion a month. This cannot continue. We have to deal with it. We have set objectives in terms of having our deficit reduced. The full economic perspective of the Government will be set out in the budget. At this stage, neither...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: They were never very good at the mathematics in that sense.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: When the Minister for Finance spoke yesterday, he said clearly that the Government fully understands the challenges and difficulties being faced by so many people. When the full figures emerge from his area of responsibility and that of the Minister, Deputy Howlin, he will have to take account of the difficulties and concerns that many people face. Clearly, if moneys are available at the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: As I have pointed out to the Deputy, house repossessions are a very sensitive issue in this country. I think everybody agrees that, over the years, even when we did not have the extent of lending we had during the so-called Celtic tiger years, there were always a small number of house repossessions. When I served on the local authority many years ago, it applied in a small number of cases...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: While the banks have a say in this, there is a follow through to a bankruptcy claim or whatever. I do not know what the legal adviser to the man and his wife and family has done about this, but that right was put in place in a completely independent fashion in the knowledge that house repossession is a very sensitive issue in this country. I know that it is where I come from, and Kanturk is...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's assertions at all. She was one of the people who wished the negotiations in respect of the Haddington Road agreement would fail. She denounced them before the ballot was ever held and showed scant regard for teachers, parents or pupils with her comments at the time. The ASTI has 17,000 members. They have been balloted and have made their views known on the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have seen some reports of the case to which Deputy Martin refers. While I do not want to discuss the details of any particular case, the situation stands as we have already said. House repossessions should be a very last resort. As the Deputy is aware, the Government provided a range of options for consideration in cases where persons are in mortgage distress. I understand exactly what...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Troy is well aware of the potential of the natural facility we have in terms of mean wind speeds in particular locations around the country, including many locations in the west. There is an issue of contention balanced against this potential source of energy and jobs for the future. I am sure the issue has been raised already under the Topical Issues debate. It can be debated at...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Troy is talking about Ministers being able to provide answers to questions during recess periods. This has never happened before. I have ideas about how it might happen now, but this country effectively closes down in August in delivering elements of the public service in this respect. I am quite sure that the leader of the Deputy's party will raise it with me when I have the chance...

An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney: Statements (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would like to welcome Michael, Seamus's secretary, Susan, and her husband, Ciarán, to the House. As Friday mornings go, it was busy. Those with young families were out early, buying the last of the books and lurid lunchboxes. Everybody here was making calls, lists and readying offices for the start of the new term, all of us noticing the change in the light. All day, word of his...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Enda Kenny: I understand the matters to which Deputy Dowds referred will be the subject of a presentation by the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, at the Cabinet sub-committee next Monday. However, it does not take a particular day for there to be, in accident and emergency wards around this country, a situation which, to put it mildly, is not very nice. Some 2,000 beds every night are occupied in...