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- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is a bit different from the army council.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is a pity that Sinn Féin did not give Jerry McCabe a chance with its carry on.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Robbing the people.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is a lie.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's leader is nodding off.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is the vampire comment.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am smirking at the Deputy's leader.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is the consequence of Fianna Fáil's approach.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: We should have a discussion about this matter. I understand the site in question was chosen on the basis of information on tides and sea lanes provided by the Marine Institute. As the Deputy is aware, the location is a considerable distance from shore. I was surprised to see one public body, Inland Fisheries Ireland, objecting to a proposal from another body. Be that as it may, I do not...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: We have set out our position. The requirement of the programme that we as a country are in requires a property tax be introduced. The Minister for Finance will give the details of that today in his budgetary contribution. We are one of the last countries in Europe not to have a property tax, and we want this to be as fair and equitable, and it should be seen as progressive.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The alternative is to increase income tax and put taxes on work.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: That is not the direction in which we want to go. Some 20,000 new jobs were created in the past 12 months in the private sector.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: There are signs of confidence, as I have noted, in the economy.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: They are by no means the be all and end all but the fact is that Bank of Ireland was able to raise €1 billion without a guarantee and AIB is also out raising money without the State guarantee. There is also the case of the ESB and Bord Gáis, as well as the sale of licences to three major telecommunications companies. One of the rating companies has also put the country on an...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Less than half of the fall is attributable to increases in the numbers on the Tús and JobBridge scheme over the past 12 months. The figure is 7,500 lower than the November 2010 total. The seasonally adjusted total is down 1,500 to 432,000. That is much too high but the rate is down to 14.6%.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: We are beginning to go in the right direction and we want to build on that with today's budget. The property tax to be outlined by the Minister for Finance today will be of benefit to the people in the localities who will pay it. It is progressive and it will be fair. There are arrangements, as will be outlined by the Minister, for those who find themselves in particular circumstances. ...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 79, motion re disability funding and services (resumed); and No. 19, Budget Statements and the financial motions by the Minister for Finance, which shall be taken today at 2.30 p.m. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and the motion for the General Financial Resolution shall be moved...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It will be finished before the Houses rise for Christmas.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: There are details in setting up the new agency. The director has been appointed and the date has been fixed for it to commence operations. For that to happen, the Bill must go through the system here. It will be completed.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I cannot give the Deputy an answer. He raised the question yesterday and I put a query into the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. I will give the Deputy the details of the current position when I have it.