Results 61-69 of 69 for economic sovereign speaker:Enda Kenny

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...I agreed our joint statement setting out a ten year vision for ever closer bilateral co-operation between Ireland and Britain. We met in Downing Street again on 11 March and I am pleased our bilateral economic relations continue to go from strength to strength. There have been significant developments on progressing recommendations outlined in the joint economic study which we jointly...

European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...for agreeing the remaining legislation on deposit guarantees and on a single resolution mechanism. I stressed the necessity, as agreed in June 2012, of breaking the vicious circle between bank and sovereign debts that forced Ireland into a programme in 2010, at a time when there was a different consensus in Europe on the merits of bailing in creditors of failed banks. Breaking this link...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...we have already received, notably assistance in the form of a reduction of interest rates and extended maturities. In addition, last June, the Heads of State and Government agreed on breaking the link between banks and sovereign. They made explicit reference to Ireland in that decision. It is important to remember that Ireland is exiting a programme and we should have regard to what we...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...drive for growth and we need to seize the opportunity to make real and substantial progress. It is my sincere hope that tomorrow's discussion will begin the process of looking ahead to the type of economic and monetary union, EMU, which may best serve the euro area and the European Union in the years and decades ahead. In his letter ahead of the meeting, President Van Rompuy has called...

European Council Meetings: Statements. (2 Feb 2005)

Enda Kenny: ...of Government at the December meeting of the European Council to begin accession negotiations with Turkey. Given the progress the Turkish Government has made in terms of meeting the political and economic conditions set at the Copenhagen summit, it would have been very unfair if the European Union had not decided to begin the negotiating process. I would not underestimate, however, the...

European Council in Brussels: Statements (2 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...compact for growth and jobs, 12 months after its adoption. I am very pleased that my European Council colleagues also reaffirmed the imperative need to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns, making it clear that completing banking union remains the key priority in this regard in the short run. Thanks to the efforts of the Minister for Finance and his team, significant...

Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: ..., the Cloyne report has proved to be of a different order because for the first time in this country a report on child sexual abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago, not three decades ago. In doing so the report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection and elitism that dominates the culture of the...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...Border and the common travel area. That high level contact between officials will take place this week initially. While this is not the result the Government wanted, we fully respect the voters' sovereign choice in the UK. Both I and my colleagues in government have been clear all along that a Leave result in the referendum would have significant implications at a national, bilateral...

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I move: "That Dáil Éireann welcomes and supports the Programme for Government agreed by the Parties in Government of the 31st Dáil." Ireland is facing an economic and social crisis with few parallels in our history. More than 430,000 people are on the live register, more than 160,000 of whom have been unemployed for more than a year. We are again facing the prospect of forced emigration...