Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Economic Management Council is an important element of Government, in that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform meet regularly every week. One does not have the situation where two senior Ministers in the previous Government did not know that the IMF had landed on our shores. One does not have the situation in which the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland had to go into a telephone kiosk in Frankfurt to ring the Irish nation and say they were already here. The reason for those events was because there was not the connection and internal information flow in the Government about these important matters.

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