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Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Some of the issues raised in Deputy McGrath's Bill are valid. What I want to do is have as comprehensive a response as possible to what is a very uncertain and pressurised time for those caught in the trap referred to. As I stated yesterday, I must consider the personal insolvency Bill and whether mortgages should be encompassed thereby, the conclusion or decisions to be made arising from...

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Bearing in mind the existing legislation, the building control legislation, what is needed here is an analysis of the quality of the standards and regulation that apply. Light regulation has not worked. I understand NAMA has made a provision for some temporary accommodation for those families who have been displaced because of the complete shambles the builder in question put in place. The...

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am acutely aware of the difficulty that this causes. The Government appointed a group to take other proposals in respect of mortgages and the distress this is causing for people. Those hearings have been taking place.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have to make a decision in respect of the personal insolvency Bill which is quite a complex one and that is a fundamental part of the entire mortgage issue.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The heads of that Bill will be decided upon as quickly as we can do so. From the evidence available, there are 50,000 or 60,000 cases in difficulty with mortgages. We cannot overturn the situation just like that. It takes some time to get it right. The Government is correct in its view that what we should do is to take all the evidence we can into consideration and then make a...

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am acutely conscious of the difficulty this is causing for people. We also had interest rate reductions in recent days as well. It is the case that it will be brought back to the House but the Government has to make a decision on a range of issues and we would like to have those before us before we do that.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I welcome Deputy Nulty. I can confirm that a great deal of work has been done on the industrial relations (amendment) Bill and the landlords and tenants (business leases review) Bill and they are both expected to be published in this session.

Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I move that: Notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil of this day, the Dáil shall sit later than 5.45 p.m. today and shall adjourn on the conclusion of oral questions. Topical Issues shall be considered on the conclusion of No. 12a, Tributes to President Mary McAleese; and oral questions shall be taken for 75 minutes on the conclusion of Topical Issues....

Tributes to President Mary McAleese (10 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: I wish to share time with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Eamon Gilmore.

Tributes to President Mary McAleese (10 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: As President McAleese takes her leave of Áras an Uachtaráin today, she can be happy that as she says goodbye to her home of the last 14 years, she travels out into a country so much better for her being its President. Over the years we became accustomed to her warmth, her compassion, her love of life and her approachability. The facility and fluency she achieved in humanising and...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The matter Deputy Martin raises is central to the citizens of the European Union and central to the citizens of the eurozone. I have attended eight European meetings, including two meetings of the European People's Party, and I recently met with EU Commissioner Barroso on 13 October. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has attended ten eurogroup-ECOFIN meetings and at least ten...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: We made a number of dates available to the French authorities. Obviously, all leaders have their own schedule of dates. As far as I know, I have undertaken to meet the British-Irish Council on the date in question and cannot break that undertaking. We will rearrange a meeting for another appropriate date. The Deputy should not find this incredible as it happens on a daily basis.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy well knows, all leaders are entitled to have their own schedules. We do not sit around these tables as leaders of big and small countries but as equals. In respect of the drafting of the agenda, I notice Deputy Martin does not ask what is the agenda from Slovakia, Estonia or Britain.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has not sat around the table in respect of the drafting of the agenda.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: He has not done so as a leader and that is what is missing. In December, President Van Rompuy will provide a report, a paper, setting out a basis of what he considers to be possible in the context of treaty change. This will be followed by a roadmap which will probably be delivered in March 2012. It may well be that other leaders will want to expedite the matter. I can state, from other...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: My views are on record. I do not believe radical treaty change is needed. The vast majority of what one needs to do in terms of governance and fiscal discipline is already in the agreements and flexibilities that have been approved. While I intend to make this point clearly, I also have very strong views about the Single Market and the potential for further exports and business within the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: Unlike the Deputy's views over the years, when he was asked whether he condemned this or that, my answers are very straight. I said in here last week that if the regulator sought extra regulatory powers from the Government, the Government would respond to him. The regulator has written to me and has said at this time, he does not seek powers to regulate interest rates. The Deputy asks me...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The former Labour Party leader, Dick Spring, is a public interest director on the board of AIB and that bank has passed on the interest rate reduction.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The former leader of the Fine Gael Party, Alan Dukes, is involved with the former Anglo Irish Bank, which is no longer a bank. The former Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Joe Walsh, a former member of the Fianna Fáil Party and an esteemed man in his own right, is a public interest director on the board of the Bank of Ireland, which did not pass on the interest rate reduction.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is not Joe's fault. The fact is that the Government owns 15% of the Bank of Ireland. I am very disappointed that the Bank of Ireland has not passed on this interest rate reduction in accordance with ECB policy. The regulator's job is to look at every bank to see that there is fair play across the field. I respect that effort from the regulator. His letter states that "the power to...