Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Minister for Finance when he was speaking on 20 January 2009, said, "It was a carefully considered decision arrived at by the Government after consideration of all the factors at a full meeting of the Cabinet". The full meeting of the Cabinet took place on the Sunday and an incorporeal meeting of whatever Ministers were available by telephone was held on the Monday night. We need to get this absolutely clear. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is propping up the Government, has a very different view of how this was arrived at from what the Taoiseach is telling us here or what the Minister for Finance has told us.

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