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- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011 is on Committee Stage. I answered the question for Deputy McGrath yesterday.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised an important issue. I will ask the Whip to raise the matter and see what the current position is of the code of conduct. The issue has been reported to me from the streets recently.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: There is no date fixed for the publication of the courts (consolidation and reform) Bill. The control of alcohol Bill is being dealt with by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, and a Minister of State, Deputy White. I expect it to be brought forward early in the new year.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams comes in here every day and makes the same argument.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: There has been a long tradition here in the country that in the run-in to budgets, all parties are entitled to submit their claims for alternative budgets to the Department of Finance to be assessed and valued independently. Deputy Adams's party did not bother to do that.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Consequently, it ill behoves Deputy Adams-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: It ill behoves Deputy Adams to come to this Chamber and castigate the Labour Party or anyone else.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: While Sinn Féin can have its rows with Fianna Fáil if it wishes, the test for Deputy Adams and his party was, why did they not submit their alternative budgetary propositions to the Department to have them costed independently.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams should be clear about the following point. Members should see all those young people in the Visitors Gallery. When those young people grow up and become adults in this country, the Government seeks to have achieved a situation in which Ireland's economic good health has been restored, where there is an engine to drive the economy efficiently and competently-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: ----- and that we never again will have a situation in which the Government runs riot with the people's money. The Government seeks to have restored that good health to the economy in order that investment can be attracted and jobs can result. This is what is important in this regard.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Government seeks to protect those front-line services and those who are vulnerable in as fair a way as it can.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is the reason that if, for example, Deputy Adams has decided there is an alternative to a property tax, it means one loads on income taxes, as well as taxes on work, and that will not help in a scenario in which one must develop one's economy. In the vast majority of cases, the moneys that will come in from that tax will be retained by local authorities for services for local people.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: Local people wish to see good competent government delivering in their interests.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The next time, Sinn Féin should send its proposals over to the Department of Finance-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: ----- to have them costed and then Deputy Adams will see how daft they are.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "No". I thought Deputy Ross was one of the four angry men going around the country.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure how well the show was going-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: I wish him the best of luck with it. The Deputy is well aware that the position of Greece is very different to that of this country. We have a particular request, which is what I referred to when replying to Deputy Adams.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Government is in discussion and negotiations with the European Central Back about the question of the promissory notes. As has been outlined by the Minister for Finance, the next payment is due in March 2013 and the Government does not wish to be obliged to pay that. At the other end of this issue, I note the European finance Ministers yesterday did not reach agreement on putting in...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Enda Kenny: First of all, I do not cast any aspersions on Labour Party Ministers about what they do or do not do. They are part of a Government that is focused on rectifying our economy, putting smacht again on our public finances and providing an opportunity for people to have jobs and investment in the country.