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Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I will tell the Deputy why. The Economic Management Council is attended by myself and the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. It is backed up by Secretaries General from appropriate Departments and senior officials from Departments depending on the issues that are under discussion. It is a very effective way of streamlining business to...

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not opening it up because of this.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: There are two referendums in October. We do not want one on Article 28.4.3°, not yet in any case.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: We will have an opportunity to examine all these matters after the presidential election at a constitutional convention.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have no intention of opening up the discussions at the Cabinet meeting to questions in here.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure when the Deputy thought up that particular question. I am quite sure he is participating in the debate here on giving effect to the decisions taken in July at the Heads' of Government meeting in Brussels, which decisions have a direct impact on the economic-----

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----position in so far as Europe is concerned. The Government discusses matters on an ongoing basis at what are called Cabinet meetings. When the Cabinet makes decisions, as the current one is doing, they are made public and the House then has an opportunity to raise them, either during the Topical Issues debate or during other appropriate debates in the Dáil, or at meetings of Oireachtas...

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and do so legitimately, we will do so. The Deputy is asking me whether there is an opportunity for elected Members in the House to participate in these kinds of discussions. There is.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have freed up the system for the Deputies. I am not sure whether Deputy Boyd Barrett submitted a request to have a Topical Issues debate today on the issue he mentioned.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: If so, it is a matter for the Ceann Comhairle. The Deputy may submit the matter again tomorrow and may participate in the debate on the euro. Another such debate will be held next week. The Deputy will have plenty of opportunities to voice his opinions.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: Next week.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 16, inclusive, together. I attended a meeting of the Heads of State or Government of the euro area in Brussels on 21 July. The meeting was convened to consider the financial stability of the euro area as a whole and future financing of the Greek programme. We took important decisions in three key areas: improving Greek debt sustainability, addressing...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have had no discussions with European leaders on fiscal powers. There have been quite a number of meetings and contacts between Ministers for Finance and officials dealing with the technicalities of the decisions made in July. They were signed off on recently at official level and confirmed by the ECOFIN Ministers. The answer to the Deputy's question is that I have had no discussions...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: How does the Deputy define "centralisation of fiscal powers"?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do not contemplate any such move. The Deputy is well aware of the fluidity of the debate, both in and outside Europe, on Europe's difficulties.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: Who Deputy Adams meets in New York is his own business. All I can state is that the Minister for Finance has pointed out quite clearly that from his discussions with Mr. Trichet and Commissioner Rehn the question of burning senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank is something they would not contemplate. When this was mentioned in Greece, the contagion immediately spread to other larger...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----with no interest to be paid until 2013 when the blended rate will be at more than 8%. The extent of moneys that might be saved by the State, while quite substantial at approximately €100 million in the case of Anglo Irish Bank and INBS, is much smaller than what could be achieved through the agenda now being pursued by the Minister for Finance, which is to deal with an extension of...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: The selfsame bureaucrats of whom Deputy Higgins speaks fund the entire Irish banking system to the tune of almost €150 billion at a 1.5% interest rate and his own salary is paid out of it. It is important to attend meetings of EU Heads of Government because agreement was reached on our proposal that interest rate reductions be applied. The savings that have and will emerge from this are...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: I do.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Enda Kenny: It was not Europe which downgraded the United States. The markets have their own way of making their impact, obviously with devastating consequences in some cases. I remind Deputy Higgins that the amount of unguaranteed residual bonds in Anglo Irish Bank is €3.46 billion, comprising €2.86 billion from Anglo Irish Bank and €600 million from Irish Nationwide. A voluntary burning of...