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- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am telling the Deputy-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that it will cover all transactions, activities and management decisions which occurred between 21 January 2009, which was the date of the nationalisation of IBRC, and 7 February 2013, the date of the appointment of the special liquidators to IBRC.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Murphy raised a number of issues in the Dáil and followed them through very consistently.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: The response of the Government was to collate all of those files with the special liquidator and present them to the House and to the Committee of Public Accounts. Deputy Murphy made a very cogent argument in respect of a number of issues.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: Events have now transpired that we are having a commission of investigation where all of these matters can be discussed and dealt with.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: Which meeting are you talking about?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: As I said, we discussed the question of the improvement in the economy and the actions the Government was taking to drive that in the right direction. I must say that Deputy Murphy was very clear in her contribution here, that she had checked her sources-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----on more than one occasion and stood by them. On that basis and on account of the issues that have transpired here, we now have a commission of investigation-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----with a broad and flexible set of terms of reference, which have been contributed to by all Members of the House and which will be debated over the next two days. It is in the interests of the public-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and therefore the Government to have this commission of investigation, give the sole member proper resources to do his or her job and get on with that. The Minister for Finance will make the opening statement, I believe, at 5.30 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy. He is aware, obviously, of the fact that Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide cost the taxpayer €34 billion, which was the real burden imposed on hundreds of thousands of people over that period throughout the country, when 300,000 jobs were lost and emigration became a factor in everyday life again. Obviously, with the decisions and the challenges faced up to by...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is not possible to politicise it. Otherwise, it does not work. One cannot give directions or diktats to a sole member who is handed the responsibility of running a commission of investigation in an authoritative, independent and objective way so that questions can be answered and the truth can be known, and that is what Government wishes in this case. So I cannot answer the question as...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and I have no doubt that this one will meet those rigorous high standards also. It is not a case of setting up a commission of investigation and then telling it how to do its work, when to do its work and what we want out of it. We cannot politicise this, and it is right to keep that distance and that objectivity there. I hope that the commission, when the terms of reference are...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: First of all, I have been a supporter for a very long time of the idea that Dáil questions should be answered as fully and as completely as possible-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: I try to do that-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: I try to do that with the questions that come into my own Department in so far as that is possible. I remind Deputy Tom Fleming that this Government restructured and reformed the freedom of information system, which allows Deputies to ask questions in respect of information they look for that is not handled by Ministers. There are particular personnel in every Department dealing with that,...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: Public figures and politicians the world over have never been in the higher echelons of public trust. I think the bankers were beneath the politicians there for some time. I am not sure where it is now.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: Can I guarantee Deputy Fleming that he is going to get answers to all the questions here? What I want to say to him is that the terms of reference to be debated-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and approved by the House will cover all transactions, activities and management decisions that occurred between 21 January 2009, which was the date of nationalisation of IBRC, and 7 February 2013, the date of the appointment of the special liquidators to IBRC, which dealt with particular matters. That will become a matter for the judge in question, Deputy. It is not for anybody in...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----in the work of the sole member once the terms of reference have been signed off and approved.