Results 29,321-29,340 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked why we did not establish a commission of investigation. The interest of the Government here is for the taxpayer and that the facts in respect of the Siteserv sale should be made available as quickly as possible. The Deputy knows well enough that if a commission of investigation is set up to look at an issue like this there is a lead-in of a number of months and it can be a...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Of course the Deputy will conveniently forget that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin would like to think there was some kind of cover up.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: His own Government was responsible for a framework that made it clear the Department of Finance could not intervene in any financial transactions.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is true.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin does not like the truth very often. When the Minister for Finance was able to do something about this, he changed the regulatory framework and appointed a senior civil servant to ask questions. The freedom of information letters to which Deputy Martin did not refer show exactly the level of regard that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, had for the taxpayer in terms of asking the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----if the Committee of Public Accounts or other Oireachtas committee calls for further analysis we can provide for such analysis.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The board of IBRC robustly defended its position, the Central Bank examined the matter and now we carrying out a further review.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should take his cover-up and prove it if he believes it exists.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, is more than capable of running his Department and dealing with the matters for which he has responsibility. The Minister informed us about the negotiations on IBRC in so far as the promissory notes were concerned. Deputy Adams stood up in this House, week after week and month after month, to ask the Government whether we were going to borrow €3 billion...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the date but he kept us updated on IBRC because the promissory note issue continued for quite some time, as Deputy Adams is aware.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I think that deep down the Deputy has problems with the institutions of this State. If the Government decided to set up a commission of investigation, Deputy Adams, along with Deputy Martin, would be first out of the traps to say this was a cover-up and that we were afraid to produce the evidence or information before any general election in spring next year, that we did not want to tell the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is much more expeditious and more in everybody's interest that all the information about this be made available. Who has the files on this? It is the special liquidator. Who ordered the special liquidator to collate all of those files valued over €10 million where transactions occurred and to bring them back to him before the end of August? Who said that if necessary, the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am sure Deputy Adams believes in the independence and objectivity of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. That information, in terms of the public register, is now available for analysis as to who the shareholders were and who the stockbrokers were who purchased shares on behalf of clients. We also have a High Court judge to determine and adjudicate on any perception of...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The last retort is hardly worthy of an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: I point out to Deputy Paul Murphy that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, among his peers at a European level was deemed to be the outstanding Minister for Finance. I have absolute confidence in him, in case the Deputy has any doubt about that.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: The issue is about getting information and facts out of people as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Where are all the files in respect of IBRC?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: They are in the possession of the special liquidator.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Who has authority over the special liquidator? The Minister for Finance has ordered the liquidator to produce evidence and files in respect of all transactions over €10 million from 2009 to February 2013, inclusive. That is much broader than the Siteserv sale. Clearly, the appointment of Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill is designed to cover the element of the review that will...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Enda Kenny: Last week, I saw some of your people outside the gates of McKee Barracks where 700 young students from all over Ireland were receiving the Gaelbhratach for what they had done in respect of the Irish language.