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Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá clár rialtais fada leagtha amach ag an Teachta ansin. Is dóigh go raibh an Teachta é féin ar imirce óna dáilcheantar i rith na Nollag freisin. Níl a fhios agam an raibh an Teachta sa bhaile nó cén baile ina raibh sé. In any event, I want the Deputy to understand that I have already made a new year resolution, a continuation of the one I made last year -----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- by Government decision, to sort out the problems of our public finances and to put our country in order so that we can grow as an economy, have peace and prosperity for our people and careers and job opportunities for the next generation. Every worker who received a pay cheque in January saw no change in that from that issued in December -----.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- because there was no change in the income tax levels, rates or bands, as committed to by the Government. People have said to me in their hundreds that at least they are in a position to plan their lives for this year and beyond with some degree of certainty. I agree there are issues in respect of planning in so far as charges and all that are concerned -----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Enda Kenny: ----- but we have given the people the opportunity and the choice to plan.

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.