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Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is a house property tax, the valuation of which is determined by the owner in accordance with estimates submitted by the Revenue Commissioners based on localities.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is not a case of confining everybody to the four walls of the house, as Deputy Mattie McGrath knows-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----rather it is a case of allowing a small space around a house, where appropriate. The valuation is on the house as determined by the owner. This is a house property tax, not a land tax. I hope the Deputy understands.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 22, inclusive, together. I attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December last. While there, I availed of the opportunity to have a number of bilateral meetings, including with Prime Minister Stoltenberg of Norway and Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark. During these meetings, I emphasised Ireland's efforts to make legacy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: At each European Council meeting a report has been given on the Syrian question by the EU High Representative, Baroness Catherine Ashton, which outlines the devastating consequences of the conflict. I have not had time to read the report to which the Deputy referred but I have it in my office. The conflict in Syria, as the Deputy is well aware, has been a major priority for the European...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy mean in respect of stopping a potential referendum?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: On 21 February, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to publish the euro system's holdings of securities acquired under the securities markets programme, or what is called the SMP. That decision is in line with the envisaged transparency stance for the outright monetary transactions, as was communicated on 6 September 2012. At that time, the securities markets...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: We have not carried out an analysis on the impact of it. From our viewpoint, however, having voted 60-40 in favour of the fiscal stability treaty, the euro and the eurozone, we also want to keep our ports and gates of business open to and from Britain. That would be of such fundamental importance for us here and for them because of their exports to Ireland and vice versa. I will discuss...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I assure the Deputy that at the working lunch I had the other day with the Swedish and Norwegian Prime Ministers, cool clear water is what was on offer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: However, I think it appropriate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade should have available some refreshment for international visitors of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----connection with this country. Even from his socialist perspective, I do not believe the Deputy would begrudge the grape pickers in the vineyards in socialist areas the right to produce fine wine and to be able to sell it to boost their own economies.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy would never begrudge them a sip of red or white, as the case may be. I assure the Deputy that the Government and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade are highly conscious of the requirement to be realistic in expenditure these days, much more so than what happened in the past. The Deputy asked me what is the role of the leaders in respect of our debt....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: That might be helpful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am sure that Deputy Boyd Barrett does not want whatever meagre shelves they have in the Department of Foreign Affairs to be stocked with Blue Nun or Black Tower for the people who arrive from foreign countries.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Maybe he does, I do not know. If we had somebody who could transform the water into wine he would be very welcome as well, I am sure.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not agree at all with Deputy Boyd Barrett about this decade of misery. My point was that former President Clinton said that the challenge for Ireland was to short-circuit what has happened in most other places. He said we have the capacity to do this because the big decisions that are made about our programme, exiting the programme, improving our debt sustainability, having cash flow...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is aware the country with the Presidency does not drive individual issues. In the case of the Middle East, it is constantly on the agenda of the European Council and the countries participating in the rotation of the Presidency. The High Representative, Catherine Ashton, makes the report to the Council and at whatever other meetings of the Foreign Ministers apply. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is on the public record.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin can get it from the public record.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will send it to Deputy Martin, of course.