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Interdepartmental Committees (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy should put it down to me as Taoiseach.

Interdepartmental Committees (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have defined the responsibilities of the Tánaiste, the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs and me, as Taoiseach, overseeing the overall co-ordination of European issues. I do that to have a tighter and more cohesive approach to European issues so that it is not scattered across Departments. They are all called together in the Department of the Taoiseach to give a...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 7, inclusive, together. On foot of an official invitation by the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, and by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Mr. Tusk, I attended the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw on Thursday and Friday, 29 and 30 September. The Eastern Partnership initiative aims to enhance economic and political...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Yes, they did have questions for me. They were related to the reasons the reputation of the country had changed so radically in six months. The leaders of the eastern European states wanted to know how the Government could work with people in making difficult decisions that pointed in the right direction in getting the country back on a trajectory towards prosperity, where jobs could be...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is a matter of concern to people in the European Union. Former Prime Minister Tymoshenko attended quite a number of meetings of the European People's Party which I also attended and she made her case in respect of the difficulties being encountered in her country at the time. For his part, President Yanokovych said he had decriminalised a range of issues on the basis that the former...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: In respect of the meeting with President Yanukovych, we discussed the fact that the ongoing negotiations with the DCFTA could be concluded in time for the EU-Ukraine summit in December. He looked forward to the development of trade links between both countries and he mentioned the important contribution that the Ukrainian community makes here in Ireland. He also said he was confident that...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: It was not mentioned in any great detail.

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I learned quite a number of things from the meetings I held. One was that people look at this country in terms of its reputation being changed. The Deputy might say that does not create jobs but it creates a sense of confidence, solidarity and progress. It all leads to an understanding that where a country acts on the decisions taken by the European Union and is able to comply with the...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: Under the IMF-EU deal, the Government is required to raise €2 billion in the programme for Government from the sale of State assets at an appropriate time. For that purpose the Government has set up the NewERA facility in the NTMA, which will determine the economic impact, as well as evaluating it and reporting to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and to the Minister. In due...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I outlined the issues we discussed, including governance, restructuring, recapitalisation and the crisis within the eurozone. They were discussed with all three Prime Ministers. What we undertook at the negotiation table at Minister for Finance level was a phased renegotiation of the memorandum of understanding and the agreement we found on entering government. This has been done in phases...

EU Summits (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----centre on the Greek crisis, restructuring, recapitalisation, continued governance, and so on. We are central to this process. When I met President Barroso last week, he made the point that Ireland should and will speak from a position of having a bailout arrangement that involves its having moved away from Greece entirely towards a point where it is making progress, albeit with a very...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 21, inclusive, together. As I informed the House in my statement last week, the European Council meeting originally scheduled to meet on 17 October will now be held this Sunday, 23 October. This arrangement has provided extra time in which to finalise a comprehensive strategy on the economic crisis facing the euro area. In practice, there will be two...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is complete rubbish. Deputy Boyd Barrett gets up here week after week and seems to assert that this country can be equated with the situation in Greece.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: They are two different countries in two different places with two different levels of debt.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I pointed out to Deputy Boyd Barrett that the bailout situation the Government inherited has had to be renegotiated on a phased basis as stated in the programme for Government. The Minister for Finance will contribute to the ECOFIN meeting on Friday and Saturday and I will do the same at the leaders' meetings of the EU and the eurozone on Sunday. We will focus on explaining the progress...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: It smacks of Deputy Boyd Barrett seeking to go back to his old agenda of more and more protests.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: One issue that has arisen at Heads of Government meetings and that is recognised by the President of the Commission is that the Ministers for Finance should be given the opportunity to carry through their responsibilities. I outline for Deputy Martin the five issues I have mentioned: the situation in Greece, preventing contagion, addressing weaknesses in Europe's banks, the opportunity for...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is not the first time that Ireland has had the agenda structured this way.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not suggesting that Ireland-----

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: This is a serious matter. I do not suggest that Ireland was the only country to put Greece on the agenda when everyone else was discussing it. Contagion is on the agenda as a specific issue. I did not ring Chancellor Merkel because I will go to Germany in November and I understand a date is fixed for the meeting.