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Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: We need a national response and we are getting a national response. The Government recognises this is a problem that from its beginning and through to its tragic end in some cases affects communities, households and families all over the country, for a variety of reasons. That is why a Minister of State was appointed, with ring-fenced moneys, to do something about it. It is why the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Let me first confirm to Deputy Daly that President Obama did not inquire about her whereabouts or well-being. The Deputy's comments are disgraceful and do down the pride of Irish people all over the world who were more than happy to see Ireland host the G8 summit of the leaders of the most industrialised nations of the world. For the Deputy to criticise the American President for offering...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, 100,000 American people are employed by Irish-owned firms across 50 states, and it is something similar here from American invested corporates in this country. The American Government - I obviously do not speak for it - has taken a view in terms of withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. There was not any intervention in terms of troops in Libya and there...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Out of the middle of that rant, she seemed to support the Government position as articulated by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade that this country did not and does not support the lifting of the arms embargo in Syria. Clearly, with an opposition comprising very diverse factions, these are very vexed questions. The decision of the European Council not to agree in...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: She seems to have a very biased view of the wanton slaughter of the Syrian people. Everybody on this side, in so far as we are party to the European Union, wants to see a structure that will bring about the removal of President Assad and peace restored to that country and its troubled people, including the hundreds of thousands involved in the exodus across the border with nothing but their...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: In that sense I hope - it is the hope of the Government - that the peace talks in Geneva can actually take place and that something comes from them. While I was not party to the discussion about Syria at the G8 summit, I understand there was a very frank disclosure about the various views here and that it is hoped something beneficial will come from that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I noted the Deputy's words, "reckless", "oblivious", "devoid of responsibility", "dismissive of authority" and "no moral compass". I note that he only mentioned the word "truth" once. We need to get at the truth because while it is easy to be shocked and absolutely angry about the revelations in what I understand are very extensive tapes, we should remember who the victims are in this case....

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: It was the Government that allowed that culture to function. It is no wonder that Deputy Micheál Martin suggests having another inquiry in secret that could drift on for years. We had 14 years of the Moriarty and Mahon tribunals and nobody went to court-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Charges have been laid against a number of individuals and a criminal trial is due to commence next year. A referendum on specific inquiries was rejected by the people. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is processing legislation through the Oireachtas. It is imperative to establish the terms of reference for such a committee and, in so far as it can be challenged, that it deal...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I suggest the Seanad could reschedule its agenda to have this finished by the end of this Dáil session. Let us put that inquiry in place. I suggest the people who were in government with Deputy Micheál Martin during the years write down their recollections of what happened in the lead-up to the bank guarantee, the discussions and conversations that took place, and the decisions...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: It stated, "If you think the housing bubble is going to burst, then go and commit suicide." I remind Deputy Micheál Martin that we need to focus on what happened here; that we need to find out the truth. We will start that process by having a parliamentary inquiry with a specific set of terms of reference to examine what happened before the guarantee was introduced.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: That is where the damage was done. There was an infusion into that culture of a system that allowed this to happen that has consigned the next generation to paying for the behaviour of people involved in this circle, some of which has been revealed on the national airwaves in the past two days.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes, but I assume a parliamentary inquiry would have the moral authority to call former politicians of influence and who were in office to give their recollections and accounts of what happened in the lead-in to the bank guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I assume our predecessors in government who served with the Deputy in high office would have the opportunity and a willingness to come to a parliamentary inquiry to explain why this was allowed to happen.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Why did a Government appoint someone to head up a report group that separated the Central Bank from regulators and introduce light touch regulation in the first place? Can the Deputy explaine why all of these occasions were taking place between bankers and high members of the Government and say what was discussed at all of these things?

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is what the culture has led to where the decision was made.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The tapes to which we have listened and heard on the national airwaves were recorded after the bank guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: We had the Nyberg inquiry which was held in private after the bank guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: We need to have a public parliamentary inquiry with a specific set of terms of reference to find out the truth in so far as we can.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The people want to know that justice will be done.