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- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: There will be a criminal trial with a judge and jury and that takes its own course.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government extended the period of office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for the preparation of his report.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Garda has done its job and that has all been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. I understand books of evidence are being prepared. That process takes its own independent course.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We must find out in the House who were the masters at the time and who was supposed to be in charge of the country. It was the Government. We do not have a scrap of evidence about who visited whom, what was said, why decisions were not recorded, whether a decision was taken not to record any of this and why was it that this culture erupted.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin was part of that environment. I am not suggesting he was involved directly in any of it-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but he was a member of the Government and the people are entitled to know why the Government had incorporeal meetings at 3 a.m. They are entitled to know about the political environment in which all of these agents operated.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The banks were agents of the Government and the issue was to keep the property bubble booming, keep prices up and keep people getting mortgages they could not pay back for very many years.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The whole lot went over the edge and here we are.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Evidence is now coming out on the airwaves of the comments, attitude, arrogance and condescension towards the people who were treated as pawns in a game.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We need to find out the truth. When the legislation goes through, we will start that process in a parliamentary forum.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill before the House, the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011, which is on Committee Stage, is extensive and complex. It deals with the Honohan, Nyberg, Regling and Watson, Moriarty and Mahon tribunal reports. The Government has published the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill which, once enacted, will provide the framework for a...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Gerry Adams want the Minister for Justice and Equality to identify the Ministers involved?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have set out some of the issues which have had to be dealt with by the Government in inheriting this mess, including the Central Bank legislation.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Investigations are being carried out by the Central Bank and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement into matters at Anglo Irish Bank. They should take their course. We put a referendum on inquiries to the people and it was rejected. Legislation on inquiries is going through the Houses. In the meantime, we have had to deal with the unholy mess at European level in terms of...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The buck stops with the Government and I am going after them. I do not have the authority or the mandate to adjudicate in a court of law-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----on whether persons have broken the law and should be charged and sentenced. Clearly, the people demand justice and the process of a criminal trial is under way. When the Department of Finance became aware of the kind of questionable behaviour in Anglo Irish Bank, the Garda Síochána, as the appropriate authority, was informed immediately. Under statute law, the Garda...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin knows from his personal Ministry whether he ever met with any of them and I am not suggesting he did.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Other people in the Government of which Deputy Micheál Martin was a member certainly did meet them and remained in their company for some time, whether at social occasions or whatever. I have no evidence of bankers coming to meet Ministers in the Department of the Taoiseach. At a number of occasions where meetings took place with previous taoisigh about this matter, no decisions were...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----what decisions were taken and why it was that this culture came to a point where it was a continuous stream of pressure on people to take out mortgages to buy properties at ever inflated prices to keep builders and friends of the banks and the Government on a path for endless prosperity?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not take from Deputy Adams the question of repayment and banks. The Deputy knows well that what we must do is put a process in train where answerability and the truth will come out. I do not take for granted the ranting of Deputy Pearse Doherty behind Deputy Adams.