Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, together.

I take it the Deputies' questions arise from my remarks in the House on 12 June when I was critical of the previous Government's handling of the decision-making process in the run-up to and on the night of the bank guarantee. I continue to have these concerns which I believe to be well founded and widely shared. My remarks were intended to highlight the remarkably small volume of documentation held in the Department of the Taoiseach from the night of the bank guarantee, which bears out these widely held concerns. I did not intend to suggest I had evidence the documentation relating to the bank guarantee had been destroyed or otherwise removed. I have since clarified the position on the record of the House in response to a question from Deputy Michael McGrath.

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