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Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: We are asserting that fact and we have made our position very clear. Since the day after I was appointed as Taoiseach by this House, I have resisted a great deal of pressure in the context of changes to the corporate tax rate. That rate will not change and will remain at 12.5% - 11.9% effective - across the spectrum. That certainty and decisiveness and the position I have adopted have been...

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams and I can agree on this matter. Before he became a Member, the House agreed an all-party motion which was very clear in calling for a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. That is accepted by everyone in the Dáil. The British Government has clearly admitted that collusion took place in this instance. Prime Minister Cameron was very forthright, strong and correct in...

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is very important to stress this point. I am not sure on the report about which the Deputy spoke and about what he gave to Mr. Tony Blair.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: All of the facts, in so far as we know them, lead to the inescapable conclusion that there should be a public inquiry. I do not say this just as a public representative or as Taoiseach. The agreement between the two Governments at Weston Park was that whatever Judge Cory recommended would be followed through. This was very clear and straight. Judge Cory recommended that there be a public...

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett gets his weekly rush of excitement with the auld rant in a Second Stage speech.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: An bhfuil an Teachta Mattie McGrath ag dul ag caint arís faoi séarachas?

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá sé ag dul ag caint faoi chúrsaí séarachais.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The question is to ask the Taoiseach if he discussed with Mr. Cameron the issue of the proposed financial transaction tax and the possible implications for the City of London and the IFSC-----

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and if he will make a statement on the matter. That was a question.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: It was not the subject of your speech.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy misunderstands the situation. I pointed out to Deputy Martin, in response to his valid question-----

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----that President Sarkozy said that he intends to introduce-----

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The point I was making was that President Sarkozy said he intends to introduce a financial transaction tax unilaterally in France. The same applies to any other country that wishes to do so. We have no intention of introducing a unilateral financial transaction tax here. The Deputy's question was whether I discussed this-----

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----with Prime Minister Cameron. The answer is "yes". Did I discuss the possible implications for the City of London and the IFSC? The answer is "yes". As was pointed out here before the Deputy came in, there are 32,000 people working in the IFSC.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy seems to think that all of these people should be run out of this country with the way he goes on about austerity programmes in his usual rant every week.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: That has neither relevance nor resonance in terms of people who are working and contributing to a €2.1 billion corporate tax payment to this country and payroll from the IFSC. The answer is "yes". I did discuss this with the British Prime Minister and I made it clear to Deputy Martin that quite a number of other leaders around the table in Europe do not want to see a situation where...

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and does not apply in another. The Deputy has a very different view: play for nothing, work for nothing and come in here and rant day after day. I am not sure that he ever did a day's work in his life.

Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy likes a bit of flexibility.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 8, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Teaching Council Act 2001 (Amendment of Nominating Bodies) Order 2012, considered by the Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education on 25 January 2012; No. 9, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal sanctions for...

Order of Business (7 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I ask the Deputy to give me the details of the case to which he refers. If we set in train a system to provide answers to applications for medical cards, I do not understand the reason that cannot operate in the way it should.