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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I think the Deputy get those figures mixed up. The figure of 1.4% referred to GDP and not GNP. Deputy Higgins would not normally go to Cahirciveen but to Dingle where he would find the air from the Atlantic to be even fresher. Why would he not do so as a native son of the great county?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is no question that there are serious concerns about developments in Europe and much larger countries in the global economy. China has its own difficulties and there are emerging difficulties in other countries. The United States faces challenges in the time ahead and, clearly, countries within the eurozone have a range of difficulties. On the other hand, Deputy Higgins is well...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett is grateful for the Deputy's consideration with regard to the attack he came under there.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I will lay out some of the groundwork for Deputy Adams during the pre-Council discussion we will have later. I spoke directly to President Van Rompuy. It is fundamental that decisions made by Heads of Government are followed through. The decision was not made by the German, Dutch or Finnish Ministers for Finance. The decision was made by the 27 Prime Ministers, and the Chancellor of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am sure Deputy Boyd Barrett has taken into account that if we issue such threats gardaí, teachers, nurses and workers in his constituency will not be paid in the meantime.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett would not know a good day if he saw one. The Kerry Group has invested €100 million in the construction of a world class innovation and research centre on 28 acres in Naas, County Kildare, which will act as an international magnet for people from all over the world to come and invest here. Does the Deputy not recognise that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Some 1,000 jobs will be created for young Irish people with skills and proficiencies in a range of areas. The Deputy does not want to recognise that. The Kerry Group is an Irish indigenous company with a global reach, which has made a decision based on confidence in our people and country. The Deputy cannot see that. I had the opportunity to open the new facility in Clonskeagh for Paddy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is an example of another Irish company making a decision based on confidence in our country and people, in terms of it putting its money where its mouth is. Does the Deputy consider the decision made yesterday by Stiefel in Sligo to retain 120 jobs by way of a €10 million injection from Government another example of confidence in our people? Does he recognise the announcement...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not know what goes on in the Deputy's head.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett does not know what is an optimistic version of anyone's life. It is no wonder people listening to him become downtrodden and disillusioned. His philosophy is that everything is Third World and nothing can arise from the dust and ashes of despair which he puts out. The Deputy should be ashamed of himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Every day I come across people in the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----small and medium enterprise sector, in which some 250,000 jobs were lost prior to this Government taking office, who say that because of the floor we have put in the sector is starting to move in the right direction, despite that the road ahead is challenging. The Deputy does not want to recognise that because he does not want people to be employed. He wants them on the streets, as is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is about time the Deputy spoke to people who create employment and are thinking of new opportunities for people in their areas, including the Deputy's constituency. I do not accept the Deputy's argument. As I said to Deputy Martin, what counts are results. We are negotiating a big decision, the result of which it is hoped will be of benefit to Ireland. I cannot in all honesty give the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: We take every opportunity to engage with our European colleagues about the improving conditions - albeit challenging - for us in Ireland. The IMF report the Deputy mentioned specifically mentioned Ireland as one of the few countries with an improving growth rate of 1.4%. The fiscal advisory council recommended that more challenging decisions be made to reach our deficit target at an earlier...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government of which the Deputy was a member has much to answer for in that regard. The Deputy seems to think that I should spend my time telephoning other leaders or travelling around because he says so. I am interested in results. A process has continued for quite some time, which I have outlined previously. The day after I was elected as Taoiseach and went to my first Council...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy could easily have asked why I did not telephone them and mention this issue. The point is there was not going to be an interest rate reduction, a temporary bail-out mechanism, a permanent bail-out mechanism, a second bail-out for Greece, or the realisation of direct recapitalisation of banks by breaking the link between sovereign and bank debt. As the Deputy is aware those things...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is the legacy. As I said previously in respect of the FOI request about the guarantees, the Deputy when in Government had all the information - faxes, e-mails and everything else, all of which were meaningless. There is no evidence in my Department of what was said when the biggest decision ever was made. As the Deputy is aware, person after person of great influence has said this was...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have answered the Deputy's question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Ms Lagarde from the IMF, Mr. Draghi, the commissioners, President van Rompuy, President Barroso, President Schulz, leader after leader-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not speaking here to a local audience. It was in the convention centre and not the Burlington Hotel.