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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is the point of the decision of June 2012, and that position is still unaltered. The decision stands. It is there to be followed-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----if the Government decides to do that. We know the amount that was recapitalised, we know that we have the facility available to us to pursue following the European Council decision of June of 2012, and that is still on the table, but the new option, because of the improvement in the valuation of the banks following restructuring and recapitalisation, is also there to be pursued.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Which of these two gives the best return for the Irish taxpayer?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Government will make its decision based on what is best for the taxpayer and how-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is being pursued at the moment, as the Deputy understands. We had some response in respect of moneys invested in Bank of Ireland. We now have PTSB being valued at approximately €2 billion, and the Minister has made it clear that he intends to have a determination on a proportionate value of a section of Allied Irish Banks to see what that might be. So, we are not in a position...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett is all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned raising Topical Issue matters. I have already said I am happy to take Priority Questions from Members if they want to submit them on a weekly basis and deal with others afterwards. The Deputy mentioned the break-up of the European Union. Clearly, this is a matter of very serious concern to leaders. Prime Minister Tsipras has said that Greece does not want to leave...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: What about the bailout into which the Deputy's party led us?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: The promised land - the cheapest bailout in history.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: The cheapest bailout in history.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy walked away. He walked out; he could not stick the heat.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Put another €44 billion on top of citizens - my God.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: I will try to be brief and will start by responding to the last question raised by Deputy Murphy. Ireland has made clear on a number of occasions our continued concerns about the human rights situation in Egypt in general. We intervened at the UN Human Rights Council to express these concerns in September 2014, indicating our continued concerns over arbitrary detention, selective justice...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is now advising me to do as his Government did. That Government sank €34 billion into Anglo Irish Bank which is dead money - flushed down the tubes and gone.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and he refused to stay in that Government because he knew it was imploding. He could not stick the heat and he walked out. That is his conviction; that is his belief; that is what he did-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and good luck to him.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----the Government still has the option of following through on direct recapitalisation. The second option which Deputy Martin says-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: Well, it was always open to sell the banks, but at what value? Nobody would invest in our banks-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----when they were worthless. The Deputy says to me now that the option was always open to sell them-----