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Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Central Statistics Office pointed out that the basic rates are now higher than they were even at the height of the boom. The Government is cognisant of the pressure on people. We did not increase income tax and we did not reduce the basic rates of social welfare. We removed the requirement on 330,000 to pay the universal social charge and we reversed the minimum wage. It was much to...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett has a radical shift of policy every week. His radical shift of policy in sending the Europeans and the IMF would cause a catastrophe in the economy of this country. The position is that the Government has set out to protect the welfare of the elderly. In European terms we have the lowest at-risk population of elderly people of most of the countries in Europe because of...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett spoke about poverty and inequality. The answer to poverty and inequality is employment and the opportunity to create it. That is why in dealing with the mess we inherited, we are trying to sort out the problems with the public finances and at the same time to grow the economy so that people can experience a restoration of confidence in the indigenous economy and spend,...

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. No retired civil servants have been re-employed by my Department. One person who previously retired from a different part of the public service is employed in an unestablished position by my Department. The employment contract of the person concerned will cease when my term of office as Taoiseach ends.

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do, of course, accept that principle. It is only right and proper that where young people have the qualifications and the opportunity, they should be given it. Information received by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform shows the number of re-engagements of retired civil servants at 850 for 2010, 767 for 2011, and 70 for 2012. In implementing the principle that I stand by,...

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: There may be a slight difference in this regard. The persons employed by the Minister for Health have a specific competence and expertise and are employed not as advisers but as consultants to the special delivery unit.

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: In addition, during a previous Question Time, I made the point to the Deputy that last January, before the exit from the public service took place at the end of February, the Government had made arrangements, for instance, in respect of leaving and junior certificate examination classes. Because of the bond between teachers and pupils, those teachers who had chosen to leave the public...

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the Deputy's information, 254 such teachers retired during that grace period and were re-engaged in secondary schools because of that bond and for that purpose.

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: The principle is that when public servants retire, the opportunity to take up that employment should be given to younger people. The person employed in my Department worked in the Defence Forces for a period and was not at the normal retirement age. The person concerned is employed in an unestablished position in my Department and that contract will end when my contract as Taoiseach ends.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, together. I take it the Deputies' questions arise from my remarks in the House on 12 June when I was critical of the previous Government's handling of the decision-making process in the run-up to and on the night of the bank guarantee. I continue to have these concerns which I believe to be well founded and widely shared. My remarks were...

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Honest to God, I am amused by the Deputy. What I said on 12 June was: It is either shredded or has been disposed of or dispatched of - in other words, the Government has no evidence of the discussion that took place or of what Deputy Martin said when he was Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Deputy might help the Government in that regard.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: He was the Minister who dropped the Travers report behind the radiator and could not find it for many years.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: If the Taoiseach of the day meets a group from Deputy Peter Mathews's constituency, Deputy Micheál Martin can be sure that whatever it is about, notes will be taken and be there for posterity.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I find it incredible that Deputy Micheál Martin should make such a political charge in this Chamber because his name is on the incorporeal list of Ministers.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps he might tell the House where he was or whether he asked any questions in this regard when he was contacted. Did he attend those meetings at which banks gave evidence? What did he contribute to the rationale which led to the decision on that night?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: I find it incredible that the Department of the Taoiseach does not have a single solitary slip of evidence, paper, about any of these discussions or the rationale that resulted in the incorporeal decision being made in the manner it was. Perhaps Deputy Micheál Martin might enlighten the House because I have looked behind the radiators in the Department of the Taoiseach-----

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and no report has been dropped behind them in the way he did when he previously was in charge of a Department.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: Unlike many others, I paid tribute to my predecessor. The Deputy's question to me concerns: the reason records in respect of the banking guarantee were inappropriately shredded in his Department; the date on which he was informed of same; if he [has] had this matter investigated. The Deputy's second question is "to ask the Taoiseach the reason records of the banking guarantee decision were...

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and those involved in the banking organisations; whether we had a record of what they had said and a record of the rationale applied by the Government. We do not.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is no file in the Department of the Taoiseach.