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State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I am interested.

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I hear thousands of allegations and assertions every week.

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: If I were to live on that sort of diet, I would not get very far. We are dealing with a serious position, in so far as the country is concerned. The economic challenge we face is unprecedented. We are measuring up to very difficult conditions. We are trying to help our indigenous economy to grow. We are trying to improve our export position, which is very strong at the moment. We want...

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government decided not to burn senior bondholders in respect of Bank of Ireland or AIB. We made that perfectly clear.

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: In return for that, the ECB made it perfectly clear that regardless of whether there is downgrading, it will continue to provide funding for Ireland. That was a very important statement about our economic strength in its own right. As the Deputy is aware, Anglo Irish Bank was not involved in the strenuous stress tests that were carried out initially. I have made clear that bondholders in...

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The people, both at home and abroad, were forthright in their comments about both the visit of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama. The two words that came through to me in the many thousands of messages I received were "respect" and "pride" in our Irishness and in ourselves. The American President recognises very well the challenge that Ireland faces and made comments about the scale of the...

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Our dealings in this regard are not with the United States. We are very clear where we stand with the IMF and it has been very favourable in its comments on Ireland meeting its challenge. Our priority here is to deal with the ECB and President Obama does not control the ECB.

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is made up, as Deputy Martin will be aware, of the governors of the central banks of the eurozone countries.

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, of course-----

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and the President is very supportive of Ireland. However, our challenge is the legacy of the mess Deputy Martin's crowd left behind them where we now must deal with the ECB-----

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----in terms of the IMF-EU-ECB bailout. That is where the continued negotiations, the rebuilding of our reputation and the reconstruction of connections between this country and Europe is concerned, where Ministers of the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member either did not bother to turn up for meetings-----

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----or did go and sign on and then spoke only-----

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----of a national narrow interest. It ill behoves Deputy Martin to come in here and lecture all those about what they should be doing now when he has 14 years of failure under his belt.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It seems that what Deputy Martin wants to do is to increase the level of what was deemed to be a Gallic spat to an all-out war. Things have changed since last February. The first thing that happened was that the Government had a look at the agreement that was reached by the Deputy's own Government and the troika, and set about renegotiating elements of it within the constraints of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----is that Ministers in the last Government did not attend meetings they were supposed to attend-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and if they did speak, they spoke only on a confined basis about elements of this country and had no contribution to make in the broader context of Europe. The Tánaiste and I, along with every other Minister, have worked hard to restore the reputation of this country.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: We will continue to work at that. This country was always exceptionally highly rated by our European counterparts, but that slipped over a decade of non-attendance and non-participation and an arrogant assumption that this country was on top of the pile and would stay there. We need to rebuild that reputation, and I will be asking the Deputy for his help because he has connections in...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not regard telling the truth as being reprehensible. The fact is that this country was let down by non-attendance and non-participation-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and a very limited contribution from the last Government in particular. Nor do I agree with the Deputy that it was a mistake to devolve responsibility for continued negotiation on the principle of an interest rate reduction to the finance Ministers. I repeat that the reason the Heads of Government made that decision was that the stress tests on the Irish banks were not complete. As...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The overall position of the health system and services leaves much to be desired, particularly in respect of those who cannot get inside the system. I and other public representatives have evidence of the exceptional quality of treatment patients receive once they get into the system. However, I recently had a case of a person who was in hospital for three weeks awaiting an MRI scan, who...