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Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: If it is not available-----

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I assume it would have been included with the evidence given in the public sessions of the tribunal. I will check that for the Deputy and revert to him.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will check to see whether the information to which I referred was part of the public discussions in the evidence given before the tribunal. It was a letter written by Fine Gael after a trawl was conducted throughout all of the constituencies and of the then Deputies and Senators. In respect of the censure motion, I understand that the Whips have met and an agreement was reached, but as we...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Higgins's party was not formed when the events under discussion were taking place. In so far as fund-raising activities by the Fine Gael Party were concerned, they neither relied upon tents nor balaclavas. In that sense the regulations in force were adhered to. They were changed by that rainbow Government. They have been changed since and they will be changed in the extreme from...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: The tribunal recognised that that particular cheque did not benefit Deputy Michael Lowry in any instance and distinguished it from any other contribution in respect of the report.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have made the point that I consider that this was handled incorrectly. I published the advice of the senior counsel that was given to the party on our website last evening. That is there for the Deputy to read if he wishes. In hindsight, the evidence, eminent though it was, should have been overridden by the party. I have said that clearly. I am conscious of the fact that a number of...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: There was certainly no covert operation within the Fine Gael Party. I found the entire business of the Telenor incident to be absolutely unprecedented. Deputy Martin could have been as vehement about the activities of the person, now deceased, who put this in place. I refer to the €60,000 that went to a former leader of the Deputy's party but I did not hear the Deputy comment on that....

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will deal with the question I was asked. I am making a comment on it.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: The point is that the person who initiated a phone call to the former leader of my party, Deputy John Bruton, about contributions being available from Telenor was told by the latter that the money should be left where it was. That person made arrangements for a €60,000 payment to a former leader of Fianna Fáil. It was not Fine Gael that arranged for an offshore account, nor was it Fine...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I can confirm the position. On 18 June 2003, the general secretary of Fine Gael responded to Mr. John Davis, solicitor for the Moriarty tribunal, in respect of what Deputy Dooley mentioned. The fund-raiser was a constituency fund-raiser for the Mayo constituency. The two attendees in question, Mr. Jan Stenbeck and Mr. HÃ¥kan Ledin, were associated with the companies involved with the...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure about the relevance of the last question.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: We can deal with that from a number of perspectives on other occasions in the House. I have views on the balance between making a location reasonably attractive for exploration in the first instance and the State availing of opportunities either to take equity or higher royalties depending on what might be discovered.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware that we now have sovereign rights over 200 million acres off the west coast, which is an enormous spread, but it is the deep Atlantic and technology has changed.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: The State does not have the resources to do this but opportunities exist for positions to be adopted. Last summer, a well was drilled north of Corrib at a cost of €75 million. It proved to be without any product, so it is a case of structuring properly the tax situation taking account of technology and attractiveness. In respect of the question on corporate donations being banned, when...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will deal with Deputy Pringle's question. No deal was done with any group of Independent Deputies. As the Taoiseach, it is my duty to extend courtesy to every elected Member but no deal, good bad or indifferent, was done. Deputies were quite free to express their vote either way on the election of the Taoiseach.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: I could give a ten second reply to that question.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (30 Mar 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will be aware that the Programme for Government contains a range of measures, including the one referred to by the Deputy in his Question, to reform and modernise the ways in which the Dáil carries out its functions. The Government Chief Whip will bring forward proposals to give effect to the commitments in the Programme as they relate to Dáil Reform, for consideration by the...

Freedom of Information (5 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: A total of 57 requests were received by my Department during the six month period from 1 October 2010 to 31 March 2011. As the Deputy will appreciate, I am not in a position to forecast the number that will be received during the remainder of 2011. All freedom of information requests received in my Department are processed by statutorily designated officials in accordance with the Freedom...

Northern Ireland Issues (5 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive, together . At the outset I wish to say my deepest sympathies, and I am sure the sympathies of the entire House, go to the mother and family of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr who was callously murdered last Saturday. I, along with all the political leaders on these islands, totally condemn this act which runs completely contrary to the expressed...