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Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----until we deal with this matter. It is rich for the great republican party to come to the House on 18 November 2010 and tell us we will have statements about straitéis don Ghaeilge. Wrap the green flag around me and preserve the national language on a day when we now have confirmation of the handing over of our economic independence to personnel from abroad.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I know you do not.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Ninety five minutes.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: After almost 95 years the Government gives us 95 minutes to deal with the banking situation. This day represents the conclusion of the type of politics practised by the Tánaiste's party - cronyism, sleeveen politics, dig outs, nods and winks-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----how's your father, buy them off, of gross incompetence in the State-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----and make the people pay at the end of the day.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the proposal from the Tánaiste. I am pleased to see the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, is sitting beside her. He did not recognise what was going on in the past week. He suggested they were discussions of fiction. I suppose the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Deputy Hanafin, who is absent, will record the personnel from the ECB and the Commission-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----as tourists if they are in this country for two nights.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I want you to know, a Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I want you to understand, a Cheann Comhairle. I heard the British Chancellor yesterday talk about giving loans to the State. I understand there is no Machiavellian intent-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----but the consequence of it would be that the British Government would give the State money so that AIB could pay off British banks and the Irish taxpayer would pay for that.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: May I say something?

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will try to remain in order. I was in the process of explaining to the House the reason the Fine Gael Party opposes the Order of Business and was pointing out that the there should be, at least, a day-long debate in this House today on crisis that has now erupted. I would like to make a couple of comments and to ask two questions of the Tánaiste. This Government should resign in disgrace-----

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----at the humiliation inflicted on the Irish people today, 18 November 2010. Whatever else happens I want the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance to understand that I regard the 12.5% corporation tax rate as sacrosanct, as enshrined on behalf of the Irish people in the Lisbon treaty. Any change to this tax would represent a massive breach of trust to foreign direct investment in this...

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----which is the position in Greece at present. Pouring billions more euro into the current banking structure will not work. Perhaps the Tánaiste will state what the Government proposes to do to get State banks off the backs of the Irish people at no cost. If that is the problem, what does the Government propose to do about it? There is no point in engaging in negotiations and in...

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I will finish on this point.

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The personnel travelling here today from the European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary Fund-----

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Did the Minister say that they arrived yesterday?

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, recognises this is not fiction but fact.

Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Dempsey and Deputy Dermot Ahern remarked that they knew nothing about what is going on.