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- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: I have no evidence concerning any discussion which took place at that meeting in Asia. Professor Kelly made an assertion in his article that Mr. Geithner made comments at a meeting about the matter in question.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: I was not aware of this allegation when I met Mr. Geithner in Washington. As the Deputy knows, this was not referred to, either in the speech of welcome I made to the President or in his speech, which spoke for itself. We discussed with him the corporate tax rate in this country, the issue of the undocumented Irish, the need for action on that here and the President's response on...
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: As the Deputy is aware, the ECB comprises the governors of the central banks of the eurozone countries. We have discussed the ECB's position on burden sharing with Mr. Trichet and with politicians and finance ministers from all of those countries. We have now arrived at a position where subordinated bondholders are contributing. As I said earlier, a case before the courts at the moment...
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: What is the issue to which the Deputy refers?
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should phrase his questions differently.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: I suggest-----
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett should rephrase his questions if he is encountering difficulties with them. He is entitled to ask about the Taoiseach's meetings with the US President or with any other Head of Government or State.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: He can ask any supplementary question he likes arising from that. He should not come in here and say, with another assertion, that his questions are being deliberately shoved aside.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Boyd Barrett, who is very welcome in this House as a new Deputy, rephrases his questions, I suggest he will find that the system accommodates them. I do not deal in allegations and I do not deal in assertions. I do not know whether Mr. Geithner made the comments that Professor Kelly says he made.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I am interested.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: I hear thousands of allegations and assertions every week.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: If I were to live on that sort of diet, I would not get very far. We are dealing with a serious position, in so far as the country is concerned. The economic challenge we face is unprecedented. We are measuring up to very difficult conditions. We are trying to help our indigenous economy to grow. We are trying to improve our export position, which is very strong at the moment. We want...
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Government decided not to burn senior bondholders in respect of Bank of Ireland or AIB. We made that perfectly clear.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: In return for that, the ECB made it perfectly clear that regardless of whether there is downgrading, it will continue to provide funding for Ireland. That was a very important statement about our economic strength in its own right. As the Deputy is aware, Anglo Irish Bank was not involved in the strenuous stress tests that were carried out initially. I have made clear that bondholders in...
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: The people, both at home and abroad, were forthright in their comments about both the visit of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama. The two words that came through to me in the many thousands of messages I received were "respect" and "pride" in our Irishness and in ourselves. The American President recognises very well the challenge that Ireland faces and made comments about the scale of the...
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: Our dealings in this regard are not with the United States. We are very clear where we stand with the IMF and it has been very favourable in its comments on Ireland meeting its challenge. Our priority here is to deal with the ECB and President Obama does not control the ECB.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: That is made up, as Deputy Martin will be aware, of the governors of the central banks of the eurozone countries.
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: Yes, of course-----
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----and the President is very supportive of Ireland. However, our challenge is the legacy of the mess Deputy Martin's crowd left behind them where we now must deal with the ECB-----
- State Visits (8 Jun 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----in terms of the IMF-EU-ECB bailout. That is where the continued negotiations, the rebuilding of our reputation and the reconstruction of connections between this country and Europe is concerned, where Ministers of the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member either did not bother to turn up for meetings-----