Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This morning the file on Horizon 2020 was agreed. Yesterday, the file on CO2 emissions was agreed. The Minister for Finance will be working hard tomorrow and tomorrow night on the question of bank resolution and bank recovery towards banking union, which is all part of this. We hope that the discussions currently under way with the Tánaiste in respect of the multiannual financial framework, MFF, can lead to a conclusion. If the Deputy thinks that is globetrotting, he is entitled to his opinion.

I had the doubtful privilege of calling into Anglo Irish Bank with Deputy Bruton, when he was the party's spokesman on finance, a couple of weeks after the guarantee went through. We met all of the principals in the bank's building on St. Stephen's Green. We were given a wonderful presentation by people who were very well remunerated in their positions and received very large bonuses. As has transpired, all of that presentation was a tissue of fabrication and untruths. The questions we asked on that occasion, from the Opposition benches, were very realistic in the context of the pressures people were under and the stories, rumours and allegations that were flying around about that bank. They were all utterly denied. I make that point for the politicians who are interested in what happened here.

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