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Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not interested in the speculation to which the Deputy has referred. Newspapers are entitled to write their reports as they see fit. That is their business.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Representatives of the Economic Management Council and the banks met each other yesterday evening. At that meeting, the banks did not receive any detail in addition to that provided when we announced that the Government had approved the personal insolvency legislation. Unlike meetings that were held in Government Buildings in the past, a full written account of this meeting will be...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I want Deputy Martin to understand that the mortgage arrears sub-committee has met six times in the last six or eight weeks to push this through to a conclusion. The legislation will be published and the details will be provided on Friday. I want to make it perfectly clear that this is not about people who cannot pay - it is about people who will not pay. The lenders do not have to wait...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is recommended in the Keane report.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is the banks which will get this money. This year it will cost about €50 million. This recommendation was made as part of the Keane report. It is an incentive for banks to sit down with their borrowers to work out solutions for people-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----who are getting into mortgage arrears.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is no intention of repealing the statutory instrument. Under this system and for those in this category, the banks will be in receipt of €50 million of taxpayers' money.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is wrong on all counts, as he usually is. This Government has repeatedly made the case at European level, both politically and at official level-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----for the need for growth, jobs and a stimulus to drive and encourage movement in the European economies. The meetings on Thursday and Friday will deal with an increase in funding that is available from the European Investment Bank which, in turn, will leverage further moneys but it has to be made available to countries that are in vulnerable positions or those such as Ireland that are in...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Romania, for example, cannot draw down all its structural funds and there are a number of other problems in that regard. In those three areas, in respect of the growth and jobs agenda, Ireland will be very strong in articulating what is in both our interest and the interest of the eurozone. The problem, however, is the banking crisis and that is the issue for Friday's meeting. The problem...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is wrong again. I reported to the other political leaders on the Government's publication of its own action plan for jobs nationally, with 270 propositions to open the doors of business. I reported and discussed with the other leaders the renegotiation of the memorandum of understanding by the Government in respect of job opportunities and taking the lower paid out of a...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----of creative use of Structural Funds. I support the question of flexibility for project bonds suitable for smaller countries and I support the leveraging up of extra finance for the European Investment Bank.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I expect to meet the head of the European Investment Bank here shortly.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy should know this is about the opportunity to provide other moneys for infrastructure here, be it bundles of schools, primary care centres or other pieces of infrastructure. In that sense it is not about a federal Europe, which I do not support. The Deputy mentioned the phrase "extreme revisionism". This is a day of particular significance for the country. For the Deputy, extreme...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and it is that in the context of extreme revisionism neither he nor I were members of the IRA or the IRA army council.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure what Deputy Boyd Barrett's question is. I thought he was going to tell me-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Boyd Barrett was going to tell me what day he has chosen for his day of national protest.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is the day the Dáil will rise, is it?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have made it clear before that we share the public's dismay at the cost of honouring the banking debts, considering the role of the banks in the economic crisis. When the Government was appointed we raised this with the ECB and with the various authorities at European level. The fact is the vast majority of Anglo Irish Bank debts were paid off by our predecessors in office. Some €15.7...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (26 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Details of the number of staff who retired from my Department and the gratuities paid in each of the years requested are set out in the table beneath. Year Number Retired Gratuity Payments (gross) 2012 4 €321,562 2011 4 €878,093 2010 4 €100,416 2009 9 €814,041 The figures include one member of staff who retired under the Incentivised Scheme of Early Retirement (ISER) in 2009...