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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: I am anxious to clarify the matter. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, said yesterday:I am calling in the senior management of the six major lenders in the market in Ireland, and I will present them with the evidence from the Central Bank, and I will say to them I think they should reduce their interest rates and that we want to discuss it, and I will want them to explain why...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: What the debate over the past few days indicates is the utter bankruptcy of the Sinn Féin Party with regard to any kind of vision or any kind of economic future for this country or any kind of a coherent sense of what has to happen and what is happening in terms of restoring our economy, creating jobs-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----and facing the future in a confident way.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: There would be no recovery if we had listened to Sinn Féin and its leader and there certainly would be no recovery-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: ----- if we were to follow the kind of policies, if one can even call them that, that Sinn Féin advocates. In respect of the issue Deputy Tóibín raised, the review that has been announced by the Minister for Finance, as he well knows, will cover transactions that resulted in a capital loss to IBRC of at least €10 million during the period concerned, or that are...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----thoroughly and expeditiously given their access to all the books and records of IBRC, the resources at their disposal to conduct such a review and the power set out under the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act which allows the Minister to make this direction in the public interest. To address potential conflicts of interest, with the agreement of the special liquidators, the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: It is.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: It is a classic tactic of Sinn Féin to level allegations, which have no grounds and for which the Deputy has presented no grounds-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----masquerading as a question. That is a classic tactic of the party.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: There is absolutely no basis for that.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: I am a member of the Cabinet and I am certainly not aware, and I can only answer for myself, but I believe that the manner in which the Deputy-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----poses questions, a little like the way his party colleagues, including Deputy McDonald, operate in this House, is to make allegations without any foundation-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----leave them on the record and make no effort whatsoever to ensure-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: ----- that there is any kind of a reasonable basis for what is being said.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: That means-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: -----that the Deputies opposite cannot actually be taken seriously in relation to anything they say.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: If they come in and have something to say, they should have a basis for it. I believe that this inquiry is the correct way to proceed.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: I believe that it will be independent. I believe that it will report by the end of August.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: I believe that Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill, a retired High Court judge, will ensure that any conflict of interest, or perceived conflict of interest, will be addressed. It would do well for this House for the Deputy opposite to see that the best way to proceed in this kind of matter is to have a robust investigation-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Alex White: Yes, an independent investigation, and to bring the results in here and pass them to a committee and deal with them at that stage, but that is not the way the Deputies opposite operate.