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Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The sale of the analogue spectrum-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----brought in both a significant amount of money and confirmation of signals from three international communications companies of their interest in investing in Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: These are facts I can confirm for the Deputy. As for the details of the budget, everyone will have all the details tomorrow. As I stated, these are challenging times but this budget will build on the platform already made and moving in the right direction of dealing with our public financial problems, of creating opportunities for jobs and employment and of continuing to make Ireland...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government has tried and has worked hard to make it as fair, equitable and affordable as is possible. These things are never easy. This is a major challenge for Ireland and the budget tomorrow will be a step further in this country's exiting of the programme we are in, in retrieving our economic sovereignty and restoring the opportunity to grow our economy and to create jobs, which is...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Unlike the Deputy, I did not have the benefit of a private school education but if one studies what is happening, this country is in a very different position and on a different path than are the citizens of Greece. As for the decision of the Minister for Finance in respect of the arrangements made for Greece, they are very different than the position in which this country finds itself....

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: We know all about challenge and adversity and all about the difficulties the people have faced for many years. Deputy Boyd Barrett should not come into this Chamber and lecture us about all of that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am sure he will be present for the budget tomorrow when the details will be spelled out by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy think I live in some kind of ivory tower?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government has a particular ask in respect of our colleagues both in Europe and with the ECB and that is to restructure and re-engineer the level of the bank debt the country has faced. Patience is an important element of what we must do here. I agree that I would love to be able to come into the Chamber tomorrow and tell Members this has all been sorted out. However, the Deputy should...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: This Cabinet is focused entirely on the mandate given to us by the people to sort out the mess that Deputy Martin left behind him. We will do that irrespective of the claims or allegations that he makes.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin was not the leader of his party I would say something else to him about the nature of his questions. I do not have to speak for the Minister, Deputy Quinn, or anybody else. I can assure Deputy Martin that the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has full confidence in the Minister for Health. Far from Deputy Martin saying that he made no claim, he is just after saying that what he read...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has not made a claim, yet he claims that something written in a newspaper is the truth, as if he was there. Let me repeat for him that the Government has a challenging position ahead. We never said that this was going to be an easy remit, but we are not lacking the courage to sort out the mess Deputy Martin left behind him.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: In that sense, let me assure Deputy Martin that the Ministers, Deputies Reilly and Quinn, are part of a Government that is focused on dealing with our problems - that is, to improve the state of our public finances and to continue to provide opportunities for investment, growth and employment. That is the Government's remit and all members of the Government are focused on it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: First of all, I am glad Deputy Adams has been able to remove the dark shades.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I hope the little interaction he had with the medical service has proven to be a really good success. I wish Deputy Adams well in his recovery.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Some of the speculation that I have been reading and hearing about in the past couple of weeks has certainly been fuelled by Deputy Adams and members of his party making outrageous claims and spinning rumours of this, that and the other.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Let me assure Deputy Adams that as regards tomorrow's budget, we have made no secret of the fact that our country faces a challenging time. We have never been talking about green shoots or having turned corners. Everybody knows that economically our country faces a challenging period and we are going to deal with that. Tomorrow's budget will be a further step in the direction of recovering...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is not so long ago since there used be 12-hour meetings of the parliamentary party of the party in which Deputy Martin is involved. I notice that Deputy Martin has moved from a point of accepting everything he reads in the newspapers to be the truth. Let me inform him that I have spoken to both Ministers, Deputy Quinn and Deputy Reilly. They are absolutely at one concerning the job we...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114, 119 and 120 together. I refer to my response to question numbers 1 to 19 in the House on Tuesday, 20 November, 2012 in which I gave a comprehensive account of the meetings I have had with the families of victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months. The position remains unchanged. The priority objective of securing peace and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Constitutional Convention held its inaugural meeting in Dublin Castle on Saturday, 1 December 2012. The Tánaiste and I attended the meeting to wish the members well in their work, as indeed did representatives of the Opposition Parties. The Convention operates independently of the Government and will report direct to the Houses of the Oireachtas. It decides its rules and procedures,...