Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Commission has just published its proposals for banks to pay into a fund to ensure recent events that arose will not happen again. Has the Taoiseach seen these proposals? Will the Government support them?

European governments considering their economic and fiscal positions are set on a trend of deficit reduction. Will the Taoiseach agree that if this were applied by individual EU governments, it would not deal with programmes for investment in infrastructure which would make countries more attractive for job creation and investment? At the June Council, will the agenda contain a serious investment programme for EU member states to stimulate growth, to create jobs and, thereby, grow European economies while governments take their respective individual actions in deficit reduction?

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