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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Over 52% of them are employed permanently once they go through the process. There are other issues that need to be dealt with. Yesterday, I attended the all-party Oireachtas committee in the west dealing with jobs and job creation, the retail trade, the black economy and so on. It is only when people engage with front-line practitioners and people who are involved that they hear of the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I completely reject the Deputy's assertion that anybody in this House values the lives of women less than anybody else.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I think that is a disgraceful comment for her to make.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I remind Deputy Daly that two lives are involved in each of these cases. She is well aware that each case involves the life of the mother and the life of the unborn. The process the Government is involved in, as it follows through on the expert report, clearly takes some little time. The information meetings held by an Oireachtas committee are feeding into the preparation of the heads of a...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am quite sure everybody in this House shares the same understanding of, and places the same value on, people's lives. It is not correct for the Deputy Daly to suggest that anybody has a different valuation system when it comes to the lives of women in this country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Tánaiste and I launched the second annual progress report on the programme for Government on 6 March last. The report sets out the progress made by Government during its second year in office. It shows a Government that is working hard for the people and with the people to rebuild our country and restore Ireland's...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Investing in minor adjustments to the social protection area will not sort out our economy. What we need to do is deal with the challenge of the scale of 14% unemployment and a live register of 400,000 people. This means investment in infrastructure in which people can be employed and have meaningful jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I said at the beginning, the Government's decision was to approve the recommendation of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ask the LRC to engage with the unions involved to see, following the outcome of the vote, whether there is a basis now for a negotiated agreement on savings of €300 million this year. The Minister expects to have a response within two weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's comment is not relevant here. In all the comments I have made about any of these matters, I have tried to be as understanding of the position as one can be. The situation is that there is no need for some of the language I have heard in the past, based purely on speculation, dealing with the lives of women and the lives of their unborn children. That language is not necessary....
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has stated publicly that if there is a difficulty with any farmer in so far as fodder is concerned, he wants to hear about it.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is a line to the Department of Agriculture-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and the feed is being distributed. Teagasc instructors are giving nutritional and feed advice to farmers as they need it. Nobody wants to see farm stock left without fodder in these cases. It is a crisis for any farmer when they run out of fodder or feed. That is the reason the Minister has been meeting with banks, co-operatives, lenders, Teagasc and the feed providers themselves to...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: Farmers are the most practical-minded people in terms of their business-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and they know that neighbours will share. If everybody is out of fodder, then they must have access-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----as Dairygold demonstrated when it brought in the loads of hay from England last week. It is a genuine issue of concern, but I do not share the Deputy's view of the need for a task force. All of the people are in place.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are headed by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who has publicly invited farmers to contact him and the Department so that they can get access to credit, access to fodder and flexibility, where that is required, from lenders, feed suppliers or whomever to tide them over these difficult few weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm to the House that the Government considered the matter this morning and approved a recommendation from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that in the first instance, having noted the decision of the trade unions in their ballot on the Croke Park II negotiations, the Labour Relations Commission, LRC, should be asked to engage with the 21 unions involved to see if...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I said to the Deputy, the bottom line is that the Government follows a plan which has made significant progress towards rectifying our public finances, restoring some sense of confidence in the Irish economy and bringing about a situation in which, thankfully, 1,000 jobs are being created in the private sector every month. The Government was disappointed with the outcome of the vote,...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: It does not take into account the mess we inherited and the difficulties with which Government has had to deal. Regarding those who earn most, the €500 million package put together in the last budget comes from those who earn most. I repeat that the proposal did not affect the core pay or salary of the 87% of public sector workers earning less than €65,000 a year.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would also make the point to Deputy McDonald that it is important that the Government stick to its plan, which is working in a sense of moving towards renewed confidence in the Irish economy. As the Minister for Finance has stated, any flexibility that arises should clearly be invested in infrastructure for the public good, such as schools, primary care centres and public buildings, so that...