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National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I do not know if the Taoiseach saw the television cameras panning across the Cabinet during the closing remarks of his speech but I have never seen such a po-faced, sombre, demotivated and beaten crowd as I saw on that screen.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Shining from their eyes was not conviction but guilt. They know they had the responsibility, opportunity and influence to change our nation for the better but failed to do so.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The people will savage Fianna Fáil when they get the opportunity.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach is speaking about an election at some time in 2011. God forbid that would happen. I wish we were now in the throes of an election that would bring the certainty and clarity spoken of by the Taoiseach. I met an engineer the other day who is 23 years old and fully qualified. He told me he had a permanent visa for Australia and was going to travel to and stay there as he would...

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I saw the Minister for Finance present this document yesterday. I heard him say previously that he invited robust political debate, which I respect. I like Deputy Brian Lenihan on a personal basis. What I saw and heard yesterday was an act of supreme arrogance, as the Minister said any other plan or alternative is nonsense.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: How arrogant can one be?

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: This Minister presided over the greatest economic catastrophe in this nation's history and along with the Taoiseach, he has invited people from abroad and the IMF to this country because the Government has led us to a position where we have never been before. The founders of the Taoiseach's party never envisaged that our economic sovereignty would be cast away. The Minister for Finance came...

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: He asked for prayers in Donegal, and they may well be necessary. This document does not provide certainty and clarity required to get this nation back where it should be. It does not address the real potential or open itself up to receiving the contributions that Irish people are prepared to make, provided they are recognised and respected as being fair. The Government made a big point...

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The projections will be out of date next week, even before the budget is delivered. The reckless bailouts have been at the core of the Government's failure to restore domestic and international confidence. The mantra by the Minister for Finance that bailing out reckless banks and their investors was necessary to protect Ireland's credit rating has proven to be a catastrophic misjudgment. In...

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: We are meeting them today.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I have not had any discussion with them to date in respect of these matters.

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach contacted me and made an offer which I was glad to accept.

Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department during October 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41190/10]

Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Freedom of Information Act 1997 applies to the Department of the Taoiseach in the same way that it applies to every other Department. It was introduced as a means of bringing transparency and accountability to governance. Some time ago, the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, Deputy Allen, said that although the Freedom of Information Act provides for information to be given...

Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: On the general principle, obviously the Freedom of Information Act has been constrained by amendments introduced by the former Minister, Mr. McCreevy. The Freedom of Information Act was used by the Fine Gael Party to gain information about FÁS and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and had that not been so, a lot of things might have remained covered up, as it were. As the...

Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: I realise I am slightly off the question but I am only following on the Taoiseach's own comment about general principles and it is something that Members of the Oireachtas should take as a matter of course.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Last Sunday, 28 November 2010, the future of the Irish people and the sovereignty of this nation was decided on behind closed doors. The deal that was announced last Sunday is a bad deal for Ireland. It has been forced on us because the Taoiseach and his fellow Ministers ran up such debt over the last ten years. Their inept supervision of the banking system, along with their negligence and...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----to prop up-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: Mismanagement, maladministration and misguided decisions have left the people with this problem. We are now depending on handouts from these institutions.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: The bailout from the Swedish Government and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer is not what the people of this sovereign State expect from their Government