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Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: The position we are in is that the Government apparently has no sense of reality in terms of the scale of the situation we are facing.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle has not given me an opportunity to ask about legislation, promised or otherwise.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will allow me to make my point.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: Thank you. We are facing a range of problems in this country. Deputy Catherine Byrne spoke earlier of the loss of three teachers at the Mater Dei national school in Basin Lane, a DEIS school, owing to the €20 billion hole in our public finances. I say to the Tánaiste, in respect of the legislation dealing with these matters, that the Taoiseach does not have it within his personality to...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I will sit down after I make my next point.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: That is the fault of the Taoiseach who will not come into the House on Thursdays.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: It is most certainly not the Ceann Comhairle's fault. The Ceann Comhairle is not culpable in this regard.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: If the Taoiseach saw fit to come in here on Thursday mornings, we could tease out these matters. However, he does not. In any event, I make the following offer to the Tánaiste as deputy head of Government and a senior economic Minister. I am prepared to supply financial spokespeople from the Fine Gael Party to participate in an all-party group which will set out clear regulation, a clear...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: ——has been rejected and spurned by the Government.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will the Tánaiste consider my suggestion——

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: ——and give me a response on behalf of Government?

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I do not mean an all-party committee; I mean an all-party grouping——

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: ——that could set out clear guidelines for the oversight and regulation of the banking sector, which is our responsibility.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Government passed legislation on the banking sector, but the Tánaiste has now rejected an offer of participating in an all party——

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: Will the Tánaiste say if I am correct to state as much?

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I wish to clarify that.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I seek clarification from the Tánaiste and the deputy head of Government that she is rejecting an offer of support with definitive, clear guidelines.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I seek clarification from the Tánaiste, please.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: This is a matter of great importance. It is about our financial independence.

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Enda Kenny: I seek clarification of what the Tánaiste just said. Is she rejecting the offer?