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Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: He suggests the measures being taken to introduce a micro-finance agency should not be followed through either.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: He ridicules the fact that more than 11,000 jobs were created in the hospitality sector as a result of the reduction in VAT. He ridicules the suggestion that the Government should not increase income tax so that there would be no extra tax on jobs. He ridicules the suggestion that, for example, the renegotiation of the memorandum of understanding with the troika meant the Government was...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: He ridicules the suggestion that the Government was also able to renegotiate with the troika to take more than 300,000 people from liability for the universal social charge. These were the decisions his Government made which this one has to reverse. I am the first to accept that when I travel around the country and meet people in every walk of life-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----their overriding ambition is to have a job and be in gainful employment. What the Government is doing, and making no apology for it, is shifting out of the rut of hopelessness we inherited to a situation where people can have, not only confidence but also see there is opportunity and that jobs can and will be created. In the course of the six weeks of the referendum campaign we pointed...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the continued investment by foreign direct investors in this country in job creation, including in Limerick, where for more than 20 years Deputy O'Dea's Government refused to do anything about the Shannon Development area.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: At last this Government made the decision to open up a bright new future, with jobs and employment, not just in the Shannon zone but in the entire region. I do not accept, therefore, the remarks of Deputy Martin.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: They smack of absolute hypocrisy, from a Fianna Fáil Deputy who reneged on his responsibility and let down our country.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I would like to begin by responding to the Deputy's comment about documentation being given to the Bundestag. When the Minister for Finance brought the draft report before the Government yesterday, it was made perfectly clear that he had agreed to allow the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform to access the document. That is the normal procedure.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy McDonald is well aware, it is a requirement that copies of the reports be given to the funding countries. Arising from the previous occasion, when a European Commission document was leaked, the Government made it clear that in future, such reports would be given simultaneously to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that the reports would remain...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not speak for the ESRI. I listened to the comments that were made this morning by the author of the report. I also listened to the comments of the director of the ESRI. I do not speak for either of them. I do not see why we cannot have an opportunity to discuss these issues through the Oireachtas committees. Unemployment and employment are the most pertinent and fundamental issues...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does she want us to stop asking them what kind of upskilling or retraining courses they would like to pursue, so the Government can reflect that through the State agencies?

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Does she think it is all right to live in an ivory tower? Is that what she assumes? I want her to understand that the Government is engaging vigorously with people about their concerns and anxieties. We are listening and we will act, in so far as we can, in the interests of the nation and the people. Our job is to rectify the public finances and the legacy we inherited. The Government...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Government gave approval to the Minister for Health to proceed with the drafting of that Bill and that work is under way. I cannot give the Deputy an accurate date as to when it will be completed. The Cabinet approved it and the Minister is working on it. I will report progress as it happens.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Bhí mé ag féachaint ar bhosca Chornamóna lá an reifrinn agus tá a fhios agam cén freagra a thug na daoine ansin don Teachta agus don tír thiar ansin. Bhíodar ag díriú isteach ar an cheist a cuireadh orthu. Beidh an Bille seo foilsithe go luath agus beidh sé tríd an Dáil agus an Seanad roimh éirí don samhradh.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is due this session.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware the draft regulations were published.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Were they not published?

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: The regulation is in draft form.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: I will clarify the position for Deputy Ó Cuív and will come back to him with an accurate and up to date report on the issue. I understood they were published in draft form.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Enda Kenny: Both issues are a matter of considerable importance to County Kerry, depending on what the Minister might say. There is no date yet for the publication of the foreshore Bill.