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Business of Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: ——they do not have to pay money back to Anglo Irish Bank but to the Government, and we know who is in charge of that. Let us deal with those issues in the House.

Business of Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Minister for Finance will be forthcoming in his replies. We have set out our stall on this.

Business of Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: We want this bank taken over and wound up in an orderly fashion over seven years. I will ask the Minister for Finance, in the course of his contributions, to prove his point and to demonstrate that the Government sees this as a going concern. I am very unhappy, a Cheann Comhairle, with the structure of this debate. You presided in the Mansion House a short time ago over the way in which the...

Business of Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: This Dáil, unfortunately, is not like that. The Minister of State will have his opportunity to make a contribution on this Bill if he so pleases.

Allocation of Time: Motion (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I move amendment No. a1: To delete "6.30 p.m." and insert "midnight". Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand part of the main question", put and declared carried.

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commemoration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the First Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: Fourscore and ten years ago on 21 January the men and women of the First Dáil met here in this room. Their meeting sent out a message of independence, of courage and of hope to the peoples of the world. That message has been repeated by many leaders in many lands in the intervening decades. It will be repeated again today in another place by another young man carrying in his genetic...

Seanad: Commemoration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the First Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: We should remember too that just a few short years after the meeting of the First Dáil our country was split by civil war, an experience that disfigured our politics for years to come. Those years of bitterness and sterility should remind us that while our politics should be tough and searching, and maybe rough at times, we should never forget the role of Parliament as a unifying force in...

European Council Meetings. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council summit to discuss the situation in Georgia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32693/08]

European Council Meetings. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach might be surprised to hear that I agree with him. He responded to Deputy Gilmore on how we in this House should be in a position to have far more effective structures. We could start by having longer periods of Dáil sittings. If the Government Whip brings forward proposals to change the way we do business in the House, he will find support from members of the Opposition. The...

European Council Meetings. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach for that reply. Following the generosity he showed in the last conversation we had about this matter, can I express the hope that he will keep the leaders and relevant spokespersons of the various Opposition parties fully briefed on these matters? As he is aware, Fine Gael strongly supports the Lisbon treaty, the endorsement of which is absolutely necessary if the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the event to mark the tenth anniversary of the Omagh bombing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32694/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: As an aside to this question, I suggest the House should congratulate Senator George Mitchell on his appointment as special envoy to the Middle East. His experience in Northern Ireland, his brilliant patience and his grasp of detail will stand him in good stead in what is an exceptionally difficult situation. I hope he takes the opportunity to visit Ireland on his frequent travels across...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I did not wish to express any ambivalence. The point I made was that he expressed compassion and empathy arising from a letter and he refused to apologise to the families. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should have shown equal compassion and empathy for their plight and should understand the stress and the serious concern expressed by them arising from his actions.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: It is 40 days since the House last met. In that time the Government and the Taoiseach have wandered through an economic desert bereft of ideas, decisions, direction and, dare I say it, the courage to govern. In that period we were told that it was necessary to cut €2 billion from public spending. The Government went on holidays, sent papers to, and held meetings with, the social partners...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach tempts me to get involved in the narrow confines of party politics. He is the person who brought in the budget last October that attacked the vulnerable, the voiceless and the defenceless. He is the person who put thousands of the elderly on the streets when he tried to take away their medical cards. He is the person who attempted to take away the allowance for intellectually...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: He is the person whose Government has attacked the vulnerable and the defenceless time and again. When I proposed six years ago that if the Government was going to pay for benchmarking, the very least it should do is look at the possibilities of public service reform and the cost of that. Benchmarking is now costing €2 billion per annum. I was here in the 1980s when tax rates were 60%,...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: We were the first party to put forward the view that it was necessary to freeze the national pay deal. We put forward the view that there should be a recapitalisation programme for the banks. If the Taoiseach is interested in constructive suggestions, then I will give him some. His members have been talking out of the side of their mouths about national consensus and a national Government....

Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I ask the Taoiseach what is the urgency that attaches to this Bill. It has been brought to our attention only since yesterday afternoon.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Enda Kenny: I have several questions for the Taoiseach. Is it proposed to introduce a supplementary budget given the changed circumstances that apply economically? In respect of the——