Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Deputy is wrong. He was not here for my remarks about the financial transaction tax when I made it perfectly clear why Ireland would oppose it on the basis of the distortion of competition it would introduce between Dublin, London, Paris and Frankfurt. Unless it applies internationally we will not support it. I spoke to Prime Minister Cameron about the question of support for the fiscal treaty. I sat beside him at the meeting which went on all night. He gave his reasons for not being able to support it, which had nothing to do with what Deputy Boyd Barrett spoke about.

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