Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That brings clarity to that position. With certainty in respect of the banking sector and ongoing liquidity, we move on from here to deal with our European counterparts in rebuilding the reputation and status of this country, which was allowed to slide, unfortunately, to a position where suspicions existed about Ireland and where many of the comments made by our politicians were not believed, for valid reasons in many cases.

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