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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The figures of the scale of trade between Ireland and Britain on a daily basis over and back across the Irish Sea are well known. The year 2017 is a very long way away in terms of politics and the views that might be expressed by the British Government and the British people. Clearly, the general election in Britain will take place in the interim.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: No, the Deputy is asking for an analysis to be carried out of something that is four or five years away, depending on what the-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have all of the figures as to what the trade is now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, we do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: We have them on a daily basis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: We know what they are over and back across the sea every day. We have all of that. If the Deputy wants a mountain of that material, I will give it to him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked me for specific details about work that has been in progress here for quite some time. He is coming from a base at which he said this could never happen, that it would never become a reality-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that we would never deal with promissory notes, that we would constantly have to borrow €3.1 billion every year, and that we would not have a sovereign debt and bank debt. These are issues that he raised and-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy talks about being proactive.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: For Deputy Martin to come with that line of talk is simply absurd.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: He does it on a regular basis as if people have not forgotten what happened in the past. I want him to understand this - we have set out a very clear strategy and plan-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to reduce our cost of borrowing and to enhance our debt sustainability. The topic about which Deputy Martin asked is work that is in progress. I have pointed out to him in the lengthy document that he mentioned-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that we are very different from our colleagues in Greece. We have made that position clear. The Heads of Government were very specific, in that Greece was a very specific case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The matter about which the Deputy asked is work that is in progress.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: The ECB is completely independent of politics.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is well aware that the European Central Bank is an entirely independent operation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: Our representative on the European Central Bank is the Governor of the Irish Central Bank, Patrick Honohan-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who is working diligently and relentlessly in the nation's interests. The question that the Deputy asked on the issue of the best return for Ireland and Ireland's taxpayers is a focus of Government and is work that is ongoing on a constant basis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the two pack that Deputy Higgins mentioned, this actually was the focus of an element of our Presidency. I was very happy to welcome last month's agreement on that, which was brokered by the Irish Presidency, together with the European Parliament and the European Commission. It is an important part of the eurozone's economic architecture. It means that the new rules will...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a13, motion re by-election for Meath East, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 13, Finance Bill 2013 – allocation of time motion for select sub-committee; No. 14, Finance Bill 2013 – Financial Resolutions; No. 15, Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013 – Financial Resolution; No. 16, motion re proposed...