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- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Government's ambition is very clear. We need to work over time towards a balanced budget, which we are doing. That means squeezing expenditure as best we can while maintaining public services.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We need to broaden the tax base in accordance with the agreed programme for Government. We need a stimulus plan for jobs to create an environment in which people who are under pressure and unemployed can find work.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We need a banking debt solution which we are working on as well. The economic strategy of the Government is bearing fruit.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We understand the pressures people are under but are offering a solution rather than decrying the calamitous circumstances the Government inherited from its predecessors.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: From the very establishment of the Government and before in the discussions on a programme for Government, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were absolutely clear that the primary objective of the Government was economic recovery. A core part of that and the primary issue for Government was the creation of jobs. The Government accepts fully the point made by Deputy John Halligan that the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: This was laid out in some detail yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney. I will give Deputy Martin the sequence again for clarity. The first samples were taken by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland as part of the snapshot surveys that it does periodically across all food production in the country. These were taken in mid-November and sent for...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Following this process, all the initial samples which tested positive were sent for analysis to a German laboratory, and the conclusive results from the German laboratory were received by the FSAI on Friday, 11 January, which was last Friday. The FSAI informed the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the results last Monday, 14 January.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Once that information was received in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Minister was informed, and the Minister informed the Cabinet at the first opportunity, which was the next day, Tuesday.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We are going into a level of detail now.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I am not-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Through the Chair-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It really is important because the food industry in the country and the thousands of jobs that depend on it are of such importance that we must do this in a measured, open, transparent way.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Until I know the exact information the FSAI had at any given point and passed on at the appropriate point-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: All of this - the sequence of events, the degree of knowledge and the quality of the result - can be put in clear questions to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. He will lay it out it a completely open and transparent way.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Let us all work to ensure that the regulatory regime, the food safety standards and the oversight procedures we have in the country have worked. They identified the issue. Irish products were examined by Irish authorities and the results were made known by Irish authorities in order that the standards we demand are maintained.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The notion that we can have a debate as if we are in a vacuum and not in an economic crisis that every household in the country knows about never ceases to amaze me. I am acutely aware, as is the Government, of the pressure on citizens throughout the State because of the economic catastrophe that the country met due to bad political and economic decisions made in recent times. The Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: One thing we need to do is to get people to spend money in the economy rather than save it. The strategy of the Government from the beginning has been focused on restoring the economy and getting the economic infrastructure right to create jobs. In the three years before the Government came to power a staggering 250,000 private sector jobs were lost. It is almost mind-numbing. Naturally,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We have a clearly defined strategy to repair the economy and work towards a balanced budget. We have stimulus and job creation measures that are working demonstrably, including the jobs initiative, which we established within 100 days of coming to office and which has resulted, instead of decline, in-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There are discordant voices talking about individual sectors. Let us take tourism, which is important to such counties as Kerry. Fáilte Ireland has reported that there are 5,000 net additional jobs in the sector since we set up the jobs initiative within 100 days of coming into office. These are measures to address the issues of poverty and joblessness, and our efforts are working...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: All Deputies will agree the food industry is a critical part of our economic activity, as well as being critical to our export sector and to jobs. That is why we have such a high standard of oversight of food production in this country. It is the best, I would say, in the world. It is important to reiterate this is not a public health issue or relates to food safety but to food standards....