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Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is where they were before the bailout. If this country can keep heading in the right direction when we get to the end of our programme we will have an engine on which we can fly with our own economic independence.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday or the day before I described Deputy Ross as a respected economist but now I am not so sure.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: It seems as if the Ross theory of economics means at the stroke of a pen a member of the single currency area, in this case the Irish Central Bank, should be able to create new money to pay off the debts of Anglo Irish Bank and make those debts disappear like magic. This type of airgead draíochta is not around. It is the formula which caused the monetary chaos and economic collapse of the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: What is at stake here is what provides the greater benefit in the interest of Ireland and its people. Given the extent of what has already been paid in respect of Anglo Irish Bank - Deputy Ross made recommendations about people associated with it and their stellar performance - what is left means the greater benefit is in following the route of explaining to our European colleagues the very...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I expect to do much better than 0.5%.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I expect we can achieve the 1.3% we have set out. It is a medium-term figure. Some said higher and some said lower. I am quite prepared to stand by the figure we have set out.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: As a respected economist, Deputy Ross-----

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am pleased to have the opportunity to brief the House ahead of the forthcoming informal meeting of the European Council in Brussels on Monday next, 30 January. This informal meeting will take place over a working session on Monday afternoon. There will be two issues before us, both of great significance for the European Union. First, we will address any outstanding questions on the draft...

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: So has Deputy Ó Cuív in terms of the Nice treaty. Does he remember that one? Did he lay down prostrate in front of his old job?

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Better than I found it.

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: We have.

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The first point I will make is that this country no longer controls its economic destiny by virtue of the fact that we are in a programme. The programme that we are in ends in 2013. That programme supersedes the issues that are currently under discussion in terms of the international agreement on this treaty. The language surrounding the introduction of the European Stability Mechanism,...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I made it perfectly clear that our demands were that there be proper and adequate firewalls to prevent contagion, that there should be better governance of how the operation is run, and that budgetary discipline be prioritised. Those are the three key demands. It is not a case that when one attends a European Council meeting the agenda will include a list of sub-items submitted by this...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Ministers of this Government attend their meetings, in contrast to behaviour in the past. That is the first point. It is not a case of President Van Rompuy speaking only to certain people. There are consultations with every country and every leader. The main items on the agenda are determined long in advance and, given the crisis we have had in the eurozone for the past three years,...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: That is the Deputy's usual rant. I prioritise people over banks. The Deputy was not in the Chamber when I responded to Deputy Gerry Adams's question about bondholders and so on. The European Central Bank has made available to this country €110 billion, at an interest rate of 1%, to enable us to run services. The Deputy will agree that that is a phenomenal amount of money. He is...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: There will be a discussion on that matter later, to which I assume the Deputy will contribute, although I do not know if he will have anything different to say. It is necessary for us to be involved in this structure because we are the recipients, through the covered banks, of €110 billion to run services. We are faced with this problem because of the extensive recapitalisation of the...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is the reason Ministers are introducing legislation to deal with that issue. Moreover, the reason the Government will establish a micro-finance start-up agency to provide them with a stimulus is because they wish to employ people. They want to get out of this recession and to play their part in building confidence. Everywhere I go, big and small operations are focused on getting out...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Higgins for that long dissertation and preamble. He speaks in respect of middle and low-income workers. Because the Government has a concern about this and every other sector of society, it entered serious negotiations with the troika to make changes to the original memorandum of understanding. This is the reason, based on those discussions, that results were achieved in...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy returns to his airgead draíochta, his fantasy economics. He seems to think the money to pay our bills can be presented out of thin air and that nobody will be obliged to foot the cost in this regard.

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: A Government elected since the foundation of the State is only required to hold a referendum where there is a proposal to change the Constitution. On issues relating to the European Union, if the Attorney General of the day is of the view that, in the context of formal legal advice, there is a transfer of competency which requires compliance with the Constitution, a referendum is required....