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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: But the figures that we set out there-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----were predicated on running public finances competently, running an efficient economy, and focusing on where we should be focused, on getting value for the people's money, being able to have a situation where you didn't tax employment out of existence and where you were able to use the fruits of that economy to help the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. So that's not in those figure, but...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I've said that the programme for the manifesto speaks for itself. But I've already said to you that Fine-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----Fine Gael's philosophy was to deal with cutting costs and running the business far more efficiently. We had proposed index links capped on charges from State bodies, we had proposed a 25% cut in Government-imposed red tape, we had proposed national skill and uptraining for 100,000 to be able to cater for the changes that were coming. We had proposed a new network telecoms so that...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I'll repeat for you again, Deputy Doherty, Fine Gael had a very different economic model than Fianna Fáil and in accepting the predictions or the projection from ESRI and from the Department of Finance, we understood that you couldn't achieve those rates without having a competitive, focused, regulated, scrutinised and accountable economic system. And that's what our model was. It was...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: So you have your-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Well, that is not right-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----because the figures are the figures that were adopted by the Fine Gael parliamentary party in the 2007 Fine Gael election manifesto. Those figures are the figures that were adopted by the Fine Gael parliamentary party. But the Fine Gael economic model was vastly different from what Fianna Fail had proposed and were implementing. And your comment that this was the same as the Fianna...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Well, we'd have implemented the propositions that Fine Gael have put forward and, obviously, a great deal has changed both at home and abroad in terms of bank and bank structures. Clearly, as I pointed out, Deputy O'Donnell, the situation where you had a seamless evolution from being in the Department of Finance to being in the Governorship of the Central Bank without any difference of...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I move:That Dáil Éireann welcomes the publication of the Interim Report of the Fennelly Commission and notes its conclusions and reaffirms its confidence in the Taoiseach, in the Attorney General and in the Government. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the interim report of the commission of investigation which is being chaired by Mr. Justice Fennelly, a retired judge of the...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The report was received on Monday, 31 August and published on Tuesday, 1 September-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----as soon as it was legally cleared by the Attorney General’s office.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I also consistently rejected claims by some in opposition that I sacked or sought to sack the former Commissioner. I welcome the report's clear and unambiguous finding that the question of removing the former Commissioner from his position was never discussed or contemplated.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The report confirms that the former Commissioner decided to retire by his own decision, and that he could have decided otherwise. Furthermore, the report finds-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----that I had no intention of putting any pressure on the former Commissioner to retire.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The commission of investigation also concludes that "serious information deficits and multiple failures of communication" beset the events leading up to the retirement of the then Garda Commissioner. This criticism presents significant lessons for institutions and officers of State-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----about governance and process. These need to be studied further, and Mr. Justice Fennelly's observations need to be acted upon in the spirit in which he has presented them in his report. It should be recalled that in the weeks leading up to the then Garda Commissioner's decision to retire, the justice system, and An Garda Síochána in particular, was engulfed in a series of...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----a meeting between the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda Commissioner would not have been necessary, as the Minister would have acted on the letter and that letter could have been presented to the Cabinet the next day.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Instead, I was left in a position in which a Cabinet meeting was about to take place, it was now clear that a commission of investigation would have to be proposed, and the matter of recordings in Garda stations throughout the country was about become public, and so, in the absence of being told about the letter, I made a decision that it was only right and fair to ensure that the then Garda...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and that he could have decided otherwise, and also that it found that I had no intention of putting pressure on the former Commissioner to retire. The main report of the Fennelly commission will deal with a wide range of important matters of significant public concern. These include the operation of telephone recording systems to record calls to and from large numbers of Garda stations...