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European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett's Stalinist politburo is on the telephone.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The figures of 0.5%, 60% and 3% mentioned by the Deputy are referenced by the Growth and Stability Pact and have been in existence a long time. I stated yesterday I would check in respect of any works being done by the Department of Finance on the economic impact of the measures. I will return to the Deputy on that. The leaders from outside the eurozone who attended the meeting the other...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The meeting was about the euro and the eurozone crisis. The presentation I made in raising that issue, which was sent formally to President Van Rompuy, was intended to explain to people the challenge a country like ours faces. I noted Deputy Martin's comment to the effect that he would not have signed up to this agreement. The consequence would have been that Ireland would have been the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will deal with Deputy Ross's comments later. Deputies should feel free - the Tánaiste is also here to take questions.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: This country is in a programmed situation for the next number of years, as the Deputy knows. The figures in question have been referred to in the Growth and Stability Pact for some time.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: What was achieved on Friday morning was a political agreement. In order to have that properly assessed and analysed in regard to the impact in any one of the countries concerned a great deal of technical and legal work must be done and that is now under way.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: What does the Deputy mean by conditional agreement?

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: The political agreement was reached in the early hours of last weekend. Each country and its representatives will examine how this can be translated into a text which will be the basis for a decision by each country as to how it is to be implemented. It means that at constitutional or equivalent level, what is involved will depend on the combined effect of national and European law. This is...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are in a programme which takes precedent over this until we emerge from it. The detail must be fleshed out and some considerable work lies ahead.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Nothing has been given away. Does Deputy Adams understand-----

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: If he does, then fine.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yet Deputy Adams understands the answer before I give it.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: Ireland has been a member of the European Union for some time. We have agreed on a whole range of measures over the years about how to conduct business, in respect of which Ireland has drawn down substantial funds. In writing to the Council President, Mr. Van Rompuy, I was explaining formally to him the scale of the challenge Ireland faces because of the unprecedented level of borrowing for...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: More important, we will be in a position to gain the confidence of the markets; if they invest in a country like this, they can be sure of a return. The fiscal union was destroyed following the Deauville agreement which is why the private sector involvement, PSI, has been taken out of the ESM, European Stability Mechanism. As leader of the Government and the country it is my job to put on the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: As a consequence of preventing that contagion, there is all the more reason we should follow through on the policy of being able to use the structures under the European Financial Stability Facility, EFSF, and the ESM to reduce our people's debt burden arising from the Irish banks' recapitalisation.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: As I said, when this text is finalised and agreed as putting the substance on the political agreement last Friday, the process by which it is implemented will not be the central issue; it is how effective it will be in having every country do its own work properly. Leaders will say that in the past we made agreements and signed on for conditions that were never adhered to and countries went...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are not afraid of any referendum at all and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is well able to speak comprehensively, cogently and argue his case well. He will give the Deputy the answer from the Labour Party.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are not in O'Donoghue's in Fanore now.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Dowds for his intervention. With regard to the debt burden, other leaders understand very clearly the challenge Ireland faces in its unique situation because of the scale of the borrowing for recapitalisation and the high level of the interest rates. That is the reason we wanted to follow this through, set it out formally and deal with it at the Council meeting, and we will...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: We did not give it to RTE.